{"id":2081,"date":"2015-03-05T07:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2015-03-05T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:53:18","slug":"invasion-of-astro-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Invasion of Astro-Monster<\/strong><\/a> ~ 1965, Ishiro Honda – Japan<\/p>\n

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Rocky waters for the Godzilla franchise!<\/p>\n

Following the awesome Ghidorah The Three Headed Monster <\/em><\/strong><\/a> we have Invasion of Astro-Monster<\/em>, which is actually weirdly similar, but not anywhere near as good. Like the last film. We again have Godzilla and Rodan VS King Ghidorah, almost like they didn\u2019t want to go get any new monsters costumes out of the garage, but we\u2019re missing Mothra this time out, so in a sense it\u2019s even a step back from it\u2019s immediate prequel. Weird!<\/p>\n

THE PLOT-<\/strong> A new Planet, called Planet X, is discovered in our solar system. We soon learn that Planet X is inhabited by an advanced race of humanoids, and they want our help. It seems that after he had his ass handed to him by our Earth monsters, King Ghidorah retreated to Planet X, a land where he could ruin everything indiscriminately without interference. The people of Planet X offer a trade; they can\u2019t deal with Ghidorah\u2019s shit anymore, so if we loan them Godzilla and Rodan they\u2019ll give us the cure for cancer. Long story short, they\u2019re a bunch of treacherous A-holes, and soon we end up with an invasion force from Planet X forcibly attempted to colonize Earth, and they happen to control Godzilla, Rodan AND King Ghidorah using electro magnetic waves now. It looks grim for Earth, but since most of you are aware that there are another twenty or so sequels to this film, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s out of line for me to spoil the end and say that they figure it out okay.<\/p>\n

So, Invasion of Astro Monster<\/em> feels way too much like it\u2019s predecessor to be fresh. WAAAY too much like it. Also hindering the film is the light monster content; there just isn\u2019t enough kaiju clobbering action to carry this picture. What we have instead is a greatly expanded role for extra-terrestrials, something that was hinted at in the prior film, but relatively unexplored. This time around we certainly get our fill of aliens, but they feel boring and they eat up way too much run time. Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster<\/em> had so much going for it, but Invasion of Astro-Monster<\/em> just feels like an inferior sibling.<\/p>\n

Also, this is the movie where Godzilla does his weird victory dance. I don\u2019t know what in the hell that was about.<\/p>\n

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C-<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Invasion of Astro-Monster ~ 1965, Ishiro Honda – Japan Rocky waters for the Godzilla franchise! Following the awesome Ghidorah The Three Headed Monster we have Invasion of Astro-Monster, which is actually weirdly similar, but not anywhere near as good. Like … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[769,245,149,66,768,709,244,764,770,771,723,68],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-769","tag-aliens","tag-c","tag-godzilla","tag-invasion-of-astro-monster","tag-ishiro-honda","tag-japan","tag-king-ghidorah","tag-planet-x","tag-rehash-alert","tag-rodan","tag-toho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fantasticcrapcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}