Saturday Night Showcase> Godzilla Raids Again

I don’t hate Halloween but it’s not my type of season. The spooky, the monsters, the scares…all of that just clashes with my hero-loving persona. I want to see the hero beat the monsters, not be the last person standing until the jump scare before the credits. I never wanted to be a monster for trick or treating. My mom made me dress as a monster for middle school once. It didn’t go well. Otherwise the only “evil” costume I had as a kid for trick or treating was an Imperial Stormtrooper costume, one of those cheap ones with the oversized bib and the cheap plastic facemask that barely lasted the night. Otherwise, I went for superheroes or silly costumes, like a cuckoo clock. That’s just how I rolled.

For this Halloween I was going to present four Halloween specials I actually enjoyed…except that’s a short list and my first choice isn’t up officially yet, nor could I find an unofficial post as a placeholder. So the heck with it, I’m just going to do Godzilla movies, specifically four that show his rise from villain to hero.

I’ve already posted the first two Godzilla movies, or rather the original Japanese sub and the English rework of the first movie. I also have the original King Kong crossover and Godzilla Vs. Gigan if you’re curious. The first two I’m posting for this month are the last times Godzilla was evil until the 1980s reboot of the franchise. Godzilla Raids Again features the return of Godzilla, or possibly a different Godzilla, though not the different Godzilla from Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah that I did my first video review of and let’s not start that time travel headache again. I also posted the full movie when I could. As of this writing I can’t.

In this one Godzilla isn’t alone. This is also the debut of Godzilla’s Heisei era sidekick, the often abused Anguirus. Their first meeting, however, was as enemies, and guess who gets to be the battlefield. Can Japan find a way to stop two monsters without the weapon that didn’t solve their problems last time? Here’s where we hit an issue, and I apologize. The original Japanese sub is currently on YouTube with ads as part of their Movies & TV section, but to bring you the English dub I have to go to the Internet Archive, which embeds weird, but I’ll toss a link in there so you can watch it that way. Either way you choose, enjoy!

Here’s a link to the Internet Archive hosted English version since I can’t get the @$#%#$%#$ thing to embed. WordPress’s embed style can be a pain sometimes. Even the instructions failed unless I use the blocks and I don’t want to use the blocks.