# What was this weird Godzilla movie... or did I imagine it?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056 "2014-08-21T01:58:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/1 "2014-08-21T01:58:49Z")
Hey all, So… when I was a child, I LOVED LOVED LOVED this bizarre Godzilla movie, which was rerun over and over on a Minneapolis UHF station. It had a baby… child… whatever… version of Godzilla. There was also a creepy Japanese kid who was teased by everyone at his school. This kid (named Ken??) went to Monster Island several times, where he learned life lessons from Baby Godzilla, including how to deal with bullies. I can’t find this film now!! There are a couple of films with the baby Godzilla, but they don’t seem to match the description exactly. Does anyone know what it was called? ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/2 "2014-08-21T02:11:02Z")
The movie had two awesome-sounding titles: “All Monsters Attack” in Japanese and “Godzilla’s Revenge” in English. The movie itself had nothing to do with those titles. > **[All Monsters Attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Monsters_Attack)** > > All Monsters Attack (Japanese: ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃, Hepburn: Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki, lit. Godzilla, Minilla, and Gabara: All Monsters Attack) is a 1969 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, written by Shinichi Sekizawa, and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film, which was produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd, is the tenth film in the Godzilla series, and features the fictional monster characters Godzilla, Minilla, and Gabara. The film stars Tomonori Yazaki, Kenji... Sort of infamous among Godzilla fandom, along with “Godzilla vs Megalon”, considered the nadir of the series. The main part of the movie deals with a child in industrial Tokyo, tormented by bullies and neglected by his busy parents. Subplots include a bank robbery(!) and imagining being on Monster Island to befriend a shrinking talking Minya(!!). It should be said, though, at the time, the movie budgets were on par with television episodes. Most of the Godzilla action is in stock-footage flashbacks and Minya dealing with a bully monster named Gabara (also the name of the kid’s bully). I remember not liking the ending, (Spoilers!) the boy wins acceptance among the bullies by becoming a bully to a painting worker. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/3 "2014-08-21T02:44:27Z")
My Godzilla-loving husband says it was Son of Godzilla. He says the whole movie was the human child’s dream. Does that sound familiar? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/4 "2014-08-21T04:00:52Z")
[Godzooky!](http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzooky) Slightly on topic… ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/5 "2014-08-21T05:45:04Z")
I THINK that “Godzilla’s Revenge” sounds about right. 🙂 I was thinking of trying to find it on Amazon Prime and watching it at home while rehabbing from a knee injury. All I can say is that at the age of 8, it seemed to be great filmmaking. Godzooky!! A truly-back-in-the-day moment. 😉 Note that-- as was always the case with cartoon characters until very recently-- Godzilla was his uncle. Think about it. Donald Duck had Hewey, Dewey, and Louie, Mickey had those three weird mouse nephews… ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/6 "2014-08-21T05:48:38Z")
And sure enough, [here it is.](http://www.amazon.com/Godzillas-Revenge-Kenji-Sahara/dp/B0044WQJFA/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1408600025&sr=1-1&keywords=godzilla%27s+revenge) Godzilla is actually Minilla’s father-- I think that the “uncle” convention was an American thing. Of course… who was Minilla’s mom? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/7 "2014-08-21T06:15:37Z")
I remember it too. I saw it at a UM film night on their campus in Minneapolis. I think they showed another called _ **Godzilla vs the Smog Monster** _ that had a very ecological message. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/8 "2014-08-21T10:58:12Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > Of course… who was Minilla’s mom? :rolleyes: Villa. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/9 "2014-08-21T11:16:37Z")
> [@Anise](#): > > And sure enough, [here it is.](http://www.amazon.com/Godzillas-Revenge-Kenji-Sahara/dp/B0044WQJFA/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1408600025&sr=1-1&keywords=godzilla%27s+revenge) Godzilla is actually Minilla’s father-- I think that the “uncle” convention was an American thing. Of course… who was Minilla’s mom? :rolleyes: Mothera. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-weird-godzilla-movie-or-did-i-imagine-it/696056/10 "2014-08-21T12:54:39Z")
The Cinema Snob just did a review of Godzilla’s Revenge/All Monster’s Attack which should have enough clips to jar your memory: [http://www.cinemahaven.com/godzillas-revenge-by-the-cinema-snob\_8f5af75ef.html](http://www.cinemahaven.com/godzillas-revenge-by-the-cinema-snob_8f5af75ef.html)