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Rodan

Rodan

1956
Drama, Sci-fi
1h 14m
When a village is besieged by giant caterpillars, a more horrifying discovery is made in their underground home... (imdb)
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Rodan

1956
Drama, Sci-fi
1h 14m
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Rated 08 May 2014
59
36th
decent kaiju flick played straight and to the point. effects when the beasts run amok were fairly impressive considering the time it was made. could have even given this a score in the 70s except that the grand finale was 5 straight minutes of rockets blowing up dirt over and over and over and over again.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
74
41st
Surprisingly entertaining with an interesting plot. I originaly cast Rodan aside as a second or third stringer but this was a fun film.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
47
25th
Just okay. I much preferred Godzilla to the other monsters, and there was really nothing special about Rodan.
Rated 09 Jan 2009
53
25th
Without the voiceovers it might have been a 60, maybe even a 65.
Rated 02 Mar 2009
57
46th
Toho Productions's first color monster movie. The overserious narration (by an uncredited Keye Luke and Les Tremayne) is frequently at odds with the often goofy visuals but the rich color photography is effective and Rodan was popular enough to return in later films.
Rated 03 Sep 2009
75
64th
*SPOILERS* My rating is for the original cut. I've only seen parts of the American edit and within the first 10 minutes it's very different with stock footage of bomb tests, goofy narration, and pretty drastic re-editing. This is not a great film but it's a good giant monster flick. I got a bit antsy towards the end but the deaths of the Rodans were strangely sad and poetic in their own wobbly, wire-strung way.
Rated 10 Feb 2011
70
37th
Above average giant monster fare from Toho.
Rated 26 Feb 2011
4
55th
Oddly compelling and suspenseful (especially in the early sections) for these monster movie types.
Rated 11 Sep 2012
75
52nd
even though the monster design was pretty stupid at times (all 50's monster movies are), this is still a heck of a lot better than godzilla. this one has a story that's not an insult to my intelligence.
Rated 25 Aug 2013
49
42nd
Shifts uncontrollably between an explosion-filled monster movie and a meditation on destruction and humanity's place on the universe. Both sides bring something to the table, but some of the corniness (also attributable to both sides) bring the film down.
Rated 25 Nov 2013
50
16th
I watched the American version of this, and I don't know how much it took away, but this is for sure the weakest Honda film I've seen. Honda's strength in the kaiju genre was always making the human stories have weight and be interesting, something that he sadly failed to accomplish on this one.
Rated 25 Nov 2013
54
14th
YOU GUYS GOT ANY RANCH? *hurricane force winds*
Rated 10 Dec 2013
80
57th
Better than most of it's Godzilla related contemporaries, Rodan is parsed down to it's most essential elements. A strange beast indeed.
Rated 20 Apr 2014
66
32nd
65.500
Rated 09 Jun 2014
39
51st
[watched the 74-min. u.s. cut, w/ eng. lang. dub].
Rated 10 Jul 2015
39
6th
So boring! Why do so many of these kaiju movies think we care so much about the bone structure or eating habits or habitat of these monsters instead of just showing us the goddamn monsters? There is some tension that plays out well, but overall, this one's pretty skipable.
Rated 21 Nov 2015
70
63rd
I was surprised by how good this was (even though I watched the English version). The first part of the film in the mines worked well given the claustrophobic, darkened setting, and the action once the Rodan got loose was a lot of fun (like a dogfight and filmed that way). There was an energy here that the previous kaiju film, Godzilla Raids Again, was lacking. The ending was surprisingly poignant, and this was one instance where the English narration aided the film greatly.
Rated 10 Nov 2016
45
24th
While the monster itself is fantastic, I found Rodan to be a pretty poor outing for Honda and Toho. Horrendous editing and poor pacing make Rodan a strange story to follow, and unlike the awesome Godzilla, and solid Mothra. I'd say this is an easy one to skip.
Rated 04 Apr 2017
66
33rd
An interesting monster and some ok effects, but the human characters aren't great and it takes way too long for the title monster to show up. [Review applies to the English Dubbed Version]
Rated 09 Apr 2017
60
27th
C+
Rated 11 Jan 2020
60
35th
Stuck between camp and fight-for-survival tension, this one is a bit tough since so many parts could have been better. The ending was surprisingly powerful, considering the creatures weren't on the screen for all that long.
Rated 17 Jun 2020
40
19th
Japanese movie insanity.

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