History Film / GodzillaRaidsAgain

The first sequel in the {{Godzilla}} franchise and the second entry in the Showa era, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' was made soon after the success of ''Film/{{Gojira}}''. Its notable for introducing the monster Anguirus and the tradition of always having Godzilla fight another foe. The last black-and-white film, it kept with the grim tone of the previous film. Despite poor reception by critics and fans, the film became the third most attended entry in Japan. The film was dubbed as ''Gigantis The Fire Monster'', which did things like give Godzilla Anguirus's roar in order to convince audiences this wasn't a Godzilla sequel, because Warner Brothers, who distributed the film, didn't believe that they had the rights to the character. The dub was notable for having GeorgeTakei among the cast, but it wasn't well recieved.

* AndIMustScream: For some odd but distrubing reason, screams were added in the American version. Shows how Paul Schreibman sucks at knowing his source material since the entire city was evacuated and no screaming when the buildings were on fire. ''AT ALL''. As Godzilla shoots his atomic breath at Angurius (to no effect), screams were added when the building were on fire.

* VillainProtagonist: It's ''Godzilla''. One of the first 3 films before his eventual HeelFaceTurn in Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster. The fact that he decides to leave Japan alone after defeating Angruirus (despite destroying good portions of Osaka) tells you such. Then he destroys a fishing boat, probably unintentionally.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Interestingly enough, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' wasn't intended to be merely dubbed and distributed. It was going to be called ''The Volcano Monsters'' where Godzilla would be just a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Angurirus to be an ankylosaurus (how they are gonna explain a T-Rex that clearly looks like Godzilla is beyond us). Godzilla (or rather the T-Rex), was to fight the ankylosaurus and move to the North Pole to lay its eggs. While Toho decided to help by sending the suits and made a catalog of the production, someone stole the suits. So now, ''The Volcano Monsters'' was ultimately cancelled. This explains why it took a whole 3 years on why it wasn't released in form. Eventually, film ended up being called, by the massive face-palming of Steve Ryfle (and his fellow commentators) and fans everywhere, ''Gigantis The Fire Monster".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Interestingly enough, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' wasn't intended to be merely dubbed and distributed. It was going to be called ''The Volcano Monsters'' where Godzilla would be just a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Angurirus to be an ankylosaurus (how they are gonna explain a T-Rex that clearly looks like Godzilla is beyond us). Godzilla (or rather the T-Rex), was to fight the ankylosaurus and the move to the North Pole to lay its eggs. While Toho decided to help by sending the suits and made a catalog of the production, someone stole the suits. So now, ''The Volcano Monsters'' was ultimately cancelled. The film ended up being called, by the massive face-palming of fans everywhere, ''Gigantis The Fire Monster".

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A very ''ridiculous'' case in the English version. Godzilla is either "Gigantis" or "Angurius", the latter due to the fact that while we have an annoying what Steve Ryfle (a commentator for the film) calls all the stoock-footage they can find, then volia, their unintelligent design theory, they finally reached to the stock-footage of ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla (1954)]]'', Godzilla's being called Angurius. Seriously Paul Schreibman, ''which is it!?''

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A very horrible case. Godzilla is either "Gigantis" or "Angurius", the latter due to the fact that while we have an annoying what Steve Ryfle (a commentator for the film) calls all the stoock-footage they can find, then volia, their unintelligent design theory, they finally reached to the stock-footage of ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla (1954)]]'', Godzilla's being called Angurius. Seriously Paul Schreibman, ''which is it!?''

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A very horrible case. Godzilla is either "Gigantis" or "Angurius", the latter due to the fact that while we have an annoying what Steve Ryfle (a commentator for the film) calls all the stoock-footage they can find, then volia, their unintelligent design theory, they finally reached to the stock-footage of ''[[{{Gojira}} Godzilla (1954)]]'', Godzilla's being called Angurius. Seriously Paul Schreibman, ''which is it!?''

* AndIMustScream: For some odd but distrubing reason, screams were added in the American version. Shows how Paul Schreibman sucks at knowing his source material since the entire city was evacuated and no screaming when the buildings were on fire. ''AT ALL'. As Godzilla shoots his atomic breath at Angurius (to no effect), screams were added when the building were on fire.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Tsukipka has a knack for this: in the 9 minutes in the film, he and Kobayashi encounter Godzilla and Angurius on Iwato Island, they encounter the 2 police officers chasing after 3 inmates who had just escaped using a truck, and Tsukioka encounters Godzilla while looking for him. While the last one was justified, the other 2 was an odd coincidence. The Classic Media commentary lampshaded this.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: A very horrible case. Godzilla is either "Gigantis" or "Angurius", the latter due to the fact that while we have an annoying what Steve Ryfle (a commentator for the film) calls all the stoock-footage they can find, then volia, their unintelligent design theory, they finally reached to the stock-footage of ''[[{{Gojira}} Godzilla (1954)]]'', Godzilla's being called Angurius. Seriously Paul Schreibman, "which is it!?"

* OffModel: Due the fact that the monster's close-ups are operated by a hand puppet, they don't look like the exact match to the suit. One of the hand puppets for Godzilla actually ''looked'' creepy when he burns Angurirus after defeating him.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Interestingly enough, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' wasn't intended to be merely dubbed and distributed. It was going to be called ''The Volcano Monsters'' where Godzilla would be just a Tyrannosaurus Rex and Angurirus to be an ankylosaurus (how they are gonna explain a T-Rex that clearly looks like Godzilla is beyond us). Godzilla (or rather the T-Rex), was to fight the ankylosaurus and the move to the North Pole to lay its eggs. While Toho decided to help by sending the suits and made a catalog of the production, someone stole the suits. So now, ''The Volcano Monsters'' was ultimately cancelled. The film ended up being called, by the massive face-palming of fans everywhere, ''Gigantis The Fire Monster".

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Seriously, who wrote the English version? Obviously, the Japanese sreenwriters didn't when they wrote the Japanese version. While Paul Schreibman gave a bullshit excuse that changing Godzilla's name to Gigantis was to ''avoid'' confusion ([[{{Irony}} ...what?]]), the English script was ridiculously bad, it's ''hilarious''. The only postive line in the film was "It was the sight to crush the hearts of men" delivered by English Tsukioka.

* VillainProtagonist: It's ''Godzilla''. The fact that he decides to leave Japan alone after defeating Angruirus (despite destroying good portions of Osaka) tells you such. Then he destroys a fishing boat, probably unintentionally.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Seriously, who wrote the English version? While Paul Schreibman gave a bullshit excuse that changing Godzilla's name to Gigantis was to ''avoid'' confusion ([[{{Irony}} ...what?]]), the English script was ridiculously bad. The only postive line in the film was "It was the sight to crush the hearts of men" delivered by English Tsukioka.

* VillainProtagonist: It's ''Godzilla''. The fact that he decides to leave Japan alone after defeating Angruirus (despite destroying good portions of Osaka) tells you such. Then get destroys a fishing boat, probably unintentionally.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: Seriously, who wrote the English version? While Paul Schreibman gave a bullshit excuse that changing Godzilla's name to Gigantis was to ''avoid'' confusion (... what?), the English script was ridiculously bad. The only postive line in the film was "It was the sight to crush the hearts of men" delivered by English Tsukioka.

* TooDumbToLive: The out of 9 criminals (yes, there were nine. The first 3 were captured after one of the criminals got shot), perhaps the dumbest of all was the last six. The first group tries to escape by truck [[spoiler: being chased down in a ridiculously slow (and thus, unintentionally realistic) speed chase by Tsukioa and Kobayashi assisting 2 police officers]] crash into an oil refinery. The last 3 pair of criminals ran downstairs of the subway station when they could have ran out of reach of Godzilla and Angurirus's fighting. However [[spoiler: they drowned to death when Godzilla tackles Anguruirus into the river, causing the roof to collapse and killing the last 3]].
* VillainProtagonist: It's ''Godzilla''. The fact that he decides to leave Japan alone after defeating Angruirus (despite destroying good portions of Osaka) tells you such. Then get destroys a fishing boat, probably unintentionally.

* TooDumbToLive: The out of 9 criminals (yes, there were nine. The first 3 were captured after one of the criminals got shot), perhaps the dumbest of all was the last six. The first group tries to escape by truck [[spoiler: being chased down in a ridiculously slow (and thus, unintentionally realistic) speed chase by Tsukioa and Kobayashi assisting 2 police officers]] crash into an oil refinery. The last 3 pair of criminals ran downstairs of the subway station when they could have ran out of reach of Godzilla and Angurirus's fighting. However [[spoiler: they drowned to death when Godzilla tackles Anguruirus into the river, causing the roof to collapse and killing the last 3]].

* {{Slurpasaur}}: In the American Re-cut, the scene weree Dr. Yamane shows a film from the original Godzilla. The Americans add a bunch of stock footage and really bad puppets. Some of that footage is of Slurpasaurs, other bits of it come from UnknownIsland.

* BuriedAlive: How Godzilla is defeated.

* TooDumbToLive: The out of 9 criminals (yes, there were nine. The first 3 were captured after one of the criminals got shot), perhaps the dumbest of all was the last six. The first group tries to escape by truck [[spoiler: being chased down in a ridiculously slow high speed chase by Tsukioa and Kobayashi assisting 2 police officers]] crash into an oil refinery. The last 3 pair of criminals ran downstairs of the subway station when they could have ran out of reach of Godzilla and Angurirus's fighting. However [[spoiler: they drowned to death when Godzilla tackles Anguruirus into the river, causing the roof to collapse and killing the last 3]].

--> ~ Kobayashi in the English dub

The first sequel in the {{Godzilla}} franchise and the second entry in the Showa era, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' was made soon after the success of ''Film/{{Gojira}}''. Its notable for introducing the monster Anguirus and the tradition of always having Godzilla fight another foe. The last black-and-white film, it kept with the grim tone of the previous film. Despite poor reception by critics and fans, the film became the third most attended entry in Japan. The film was dubbed as ''Gigantis The Fire Monster'', which did things like give Godzilla Anguirus's roar in order to convince audiences this wasn't a Godzilla sequel, because Warner brothers, who distributed the film, didn't believe that they had the rights to the character. The dub was notable for having GeorgeTakei among the cast, but it wasn't well recieved.

The first sequel in the {{Godzilla}} franchise and the second entry in the Showa era, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' was made soon after the success of ''Film/{{Gojira}}''. Its notable for introducing the monster Anguirus and the tradition of always having Godzilla fight another foe. The last black-and-white film, it kept with the grim tone of the previous film. Despite poor reception by critics and fans, the film became the third most attended entry in Japan. The film was dubbed as ''Gigantis The Fire Monster'', which did things like give Godzilla Anguirus's roar in order to convince audiences this wasn't a Godzilla sequel. The dub was notable for having GeorgeTakei among the cast, but it wasn't well recieved.

--> ~ kobayashi in the English dub

The first sequel in the {{Godzilla}} franchise and the second entry in the Showa era, ''Godzilla Raids Again'' was made soon after the success of ''Film/Gojira''. Its notable for introducing the monster Anguirus and the tradition of always having Godzilla fight another foe. The last black-and-white film, it kept with the grim tone of the previous film. Despite poor reception by critics and fans, the film became the third most attended entry in Japan. The film was dubbed as ''Gigantis The Fire Monster'', which did things like give Godzilla Anguirus's roar in order to convince audiences this wasn't a Godzilla sequel. The dub was notable for having GeorgeTakei among the cast, but it wasn't well recieved.

* LoveTriangle: Tsukioka is engaged to Hidemi Yamaji while Kobayashi secretly pines for her.