Thrive What on Earth Will It Take Subtitles

"	The mysterious Kilaaks appear! Shaking the universe, the great battle of 11 monsters! (謎のキラアク星人出現！宇宙をゆるがす１１大怪獣の大激闘！)	„
	— Japanese tagline

"	The horror of every monster known to man ravaging the Earth!	„
	— International tagline

"	The MONSTERS are in REVOLT...and The World is on the brink of DESTRUCTION!	„
	— 1st American tagline

"	"DESTROY ALL MONSTERS"...The Battle-Cry that could Save the World!	„
	— 2nd American tagline

Destroy All Monsters (怪獣総進撃, Kaijū Sōshingeki, lit. Monster Total Advancement) is a 1968 tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Toho, and the ninth installment in the Godzilla series as well as the Showa series. The film was released to Japanese theaters on August 1, 1968.^[5]

Originally intended to be the last Godzilla film, Destroy All Monsters brings together nearly all of Toho's roster of kaiju, including some who had never appeared in the series before, such as Manda, Varan, Gorosaurus, and Baragon. At the end of the 20th century, all of Earth's monsters are contained on Monsterland: a facility in the Ogasawara Islands where they can live in peace without threatening humanity's safety. However, alien invaders known as the Kilaaks seize control of the island and its monsters, unleashing them in a destructive campaign around the world. Katsuo Yamabe and the crew of the Moonlight SY-3 find themselves on the front lines of the battle against the Kilaaks as they struggle to discover and disable the source of the aliens' mind control. But even when the Earth monsters are freed from the aliens' control, they must engage in a final confrontation with King Ghidorah, who is now also under the control of the Kilaaks.

Plot [edit | edit source]

At the end of the 20th century, the United Nations Science Committee has captured and contained all of Earth's monsters in a region dubbed "Monsterland" on one of the islands located in the Ogasawara chain. The island is monitored from a special underground control center staffed by scientists who ensure the monsters stay secure and also study them. One day, a cloud of knockout gas suddenly appears over the island, knocking the monsters and the human researchers all unconscious. Soon after, the monsters begin to appear in major cities all across the globe: Godzilla attacks New York, Rodan appears in Moscow, Mothra terrorizes Beijing, Manda assaults London, and Gorosaurus destroys Paris. With communications with Monsterland mysteriously severed, the UNSC sends Katsuo Yamabe and the crew of the Moonlight SY-3 to end their patrol on the Moon and investigate the island. They find the island badly damaged and all of the monsters gone. Yamabe and his men enter the research base under the island and find the staff all alive, but acting strangely. Lead researcher Dr. Otani and Yamabe's sister Kyoko bring the SY-3 crew further into the base and introduce them to a group of mysterious women wearing silver robes. The leader reveals that she represents the Kilaaks, an advanced race of aliens that have come to stake their claim on Earth, and that they have used mind control to turn all of the Monsterland staff as well as the island's resident monsters into their servants. The Kilaak Queen demands that the human race surrender to her race immediately, or else they will be forced to annihilate human civilization. Yamabe and his men refuse and open fire on the Kilaaks, but find they are defended by a force field. The Kilaaks escape and order their mind-controlled slaves to kill Yamabe and his men. The SY-3 crew fights its way through the Kilaaks' servants and manages to escape the island with Dr. Otani. Otani is brought to a UNSC base and interrogated by Yamabe and Dr. Yoshida, but refuses to reveal any details about the Kilaaks' plans. While Yamabe and Yoshida are talking in another room, Otani commits suicide by jumping out of a nearby window. Kyoko and a group of Kilaak-controlled armed men arrive to recover Otani's body, but are attacked by the UNSC's special police force and retreat. The UNSC conducts an autopsy on Otani, and discover a strange device implanted in his head. They quickly determine that this must be how the Kilaaks are controlling Otani and the others.

With the world's attention drawn away from Japan, the Kilaaks establish an underground base near Mount Fuji and direct their next attack at Tokyo. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra and Manda all attack Japan's capital at the same time, catching its defenses completely off guard and annihilating the city with little opposition. While Tokyo is destroyed, the UNSC manages to capture Kyoko (who has come to them personally to give them and the world another ultimatum from the Kilaaks) and Yamabe frees her from the Kilaaks' mind control. Unfortunately, Kyoko has no memory of the Kilaaks' plans and cannot provide the UNSC with any useful information. Elsewhere in Japan, an old man discovers a bizarre device inside a rock found near a village. The UNSC analyzes the device and learns it is used to broadcast the Kilaaks' mind control waves over a certain area. Many other such devices are found all around the world, but the UNSC learns the Kilaaks have begun broadcasting their signals directly from a base under the lunar surface instead. Yamabe and his crew board the Moonlight SY-3 and embark on a desperate mission to the Moon while the JSDF battles several of the Kilaaks' monster slaves near Mt. Fuji. The SY-3 arrives on the Moon and its crew infiltrates the aliens' hidden base. After a fierce gunfight, the SY-3 crew destroys the Kilaaks' mind control device and damages the base's environmental controls, forcing the Kilaaks to revert to their true forms, metallic slug-like creatures. This reveals the invaders' weakness: low temperature. The Kilaaks thrive in artificially high temperatures, but will revert to their true forms if exposed to low temperatures.

With the Earth monsters all freed from the Kilaaks' mind control and now controlled by the humans, the UNSC directs them all to the Kilaaks' base at Mt. Fuji, intending to put an end to their invasion once and for all. The 10 Earth monsters all arrive, led by Godzilla. As they approach, the Kilaaks unleash their trump card: King Ghidorah. The triple-headed destroyer of worlds confidently lands amidst the Earth monsters and begins his attack. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Anguirus, Kumonga, and Gorosaurus lead the counterattack while Minilla, Manda, Varan, and Baragon look on. King Ghidorah breathes out his gravity beams at the monsters, with one of them sending both Rodan leaping into the air and Mothra sprawling. Anguirus bites down on one of King Ghidorah's necks, but the space monster then takes flight, with Anguirus still hanging on with all his might. King Ghidorah finally bites Anguirus on the neck with one of his free heads, sending him plummeting to the ground. Anguirus lands in a ditch, and King Ghidorah promptly lands on top of him and stomps him into the dirt. King Ghidorah flies over to Godzilla and his other four attackers, while Anguirus shakes the dirt off his back and re-enters the battle. The Earth monsters struggle against King Ghidorah until Gorosaurus quietly goes behind King Ghidorah and then delivers a devastating kangaroo kick to his back from behind, causing him to fall to the ground, briefly stunned. Godzilla and Anguirus then seize the opportunity and begin brutally stomping on King Ghidorah's left neck, causing him to cough up blood (in Godzilla's case), and biting down hard into his right neck until it, too, bleeds (in Anguirus's case). When only the center of King Ghidorah's three heads is left alive, it is subsequently suffocated by one of Minilla's radioactive smoke rings. Mothra and Kumonga then cover King Ghidorah's dead body in silken webbing. Refusing to admit defeat, however, the Kilaaks unleash a "burning monster" they call the Fire Dragon, which terrorizes the monsters before destroying the humans' control devices on Monsterland. Godzilla proceeds to the Kilaaks' base and blasts it repeatedly with his atomic breath, only for the base's shield to resist it. Godzilla then kicks through the base's shield with his foot and personally destroys the base, triggering a chain reaction of explosions that consumes the entire base and opens a fissure in the ground under King Ghidorah's carcass, which falls into it and also explodes. The Moonlight SY-3 gives chase to the Fire Dragon and successfully shoots it down, revealing it as a flaming Kilaak flying saucer. Earth is saved at last, and the alien invaders are no more. The monsters are all returned to Monsterland to live out their days in peace. Some time later, Yamabe and Kyoko accompany Dr. Yoshida in a helicopter which flies over the island. From the helicopter, they observe the monsters living peacefully on the island, including Godzilla and his son Minilla, who stare contently at the chopper and roar at it as it flies off.

Staff [edit | edit source]

Main article: Destroy All Monsters/Credits.

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

• Directed by   Ishiro Honda
• Written by   Ishiro Honda, Kaoru Mabuchi
• Executive producer   Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Music by   Akira Ifukube
• Cinematography by   Taiichi Kankura
• Edited by   Ryohei Fujii
• Production design by   Takeo Kita
• 1st assistant director   Seiji Tani
• Director of special effects   Sadamasa Arikawa
• Special effects supervisor   Eiji Tsuburaya (ceremonial title)^[6]
• 1st assistant director of special effects   Teruyoshi Nakano

Cast [edit | edit source]

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

• Akira Kubo   as Moonlight SY-3 Captain Katsuo Yamabe
• Yukiko Kobayashi   as   Kyoko Manabe, Monsterland personnel
• Kyoko Ai   as   Kilaak Queen
• Jun Tazaki   as   Dr. Yoshida
• Yoshio Tsuchiya   as   Dr. Otani, Monsterland scientist
• Kenji Sahara   as   Nishikawa, Moon Base commander
• Kazuo Suzuki   as   Ogasawara Monsterland control center engineer
• Toru Ibuki   as   Tetsuo Ise, Monsterland engineer
• Minoru Ito   as   Minoru Kudo, Monsterland engineer
• Susumu Kurobe   as   Shin Kuroiwa, Monsterland engineer
• Hisaya Ito   as   Major Tada
• Yoshibumi Tajima   as   Security Commander Sugiyama
• Saburo Iketani   as   Toshio Fukuzawa, announcer
• Henry Okawa   as   UNSC engineer
• Andrew Hughes   as   Dr. Stevenson
• Nadao Kirino, Naoya Kusakawa   as   International Police detectives
• Wataru Omae   as   Arima, Moonlight SY-3 crew member
• Chotaro Togin   as   Okada, Moonlight SY-3 crew member
• Yasuhiko Saijyo   as   Fujita, Moonlight SY-3 crew member
• Seishiro Kuno   as   Tani, Moonlight SY-3 crew member
• Ken Echigo   as   Yoshikawa, Moonlight SY-3 crew member
• Ikio Sawamura   as   Elderly farmer in the village
• Yutaka Sada   as   Village police officer
• Kenichiro Maruyama   as   Moon Base engineer
• Yutaka Oka   as   Newspaper reporter
• Hideyo Shibuya   as   Newspaper reporter
• Yoshio Katsube   as   United Nations Scientific Committee engineer
• Kamayuki Tsubono   as   International Police detective
• Tadashi Okabe   as   TTV announcer
• Haruya Sakamoto, Rinsaku Ogata   as   Joint Defense Command officers
• Yukihiko Gondo   as   Command vehicle soldier
• Yoshiko Miyata, Kyoko Mori, Ari Sagawa, Rei Maki, Atsuko Takahashi   as   Kilaaks
• Haruo Nakajima   as   Godzilla / Joint Defense Command officer
• Hiroshi Sekita   as   Anguirus / Gorosaurus / Hospital doctor
• Teruo Aragaki   as   Rodan
• Susumu Utsumi   as   King Ghidorah
• Masao Fukazawa   as   Minilla (as "Little Man Machan")
• Tadaaki Watanabe   as   Anguirus (uncredited)

International English dub [edit | edit source]

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

• Burr Middleton^[7] as   Captain Katsuo Yamabe
• Bud Widom   as   Dr. Yoshida
• Carole Wyand   as   Kyoko Manabe / Kilaak Queen
• Gregory Starr   as   Major Tada^[8]
• Robert Dunham   as   Okada / Security Commander Sugiyama

Titan Productions English dub [edit | edit source]

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

• Hal Linden   as   Captain Katsuo Yamabe^[9]
• Bret Morrison^[1] as   Dr. Yoshida^[9]
• Paulette Rubinstein   as   Kyoko Manabe
• Bernard Grant   as   Dr. Otani
• Lucy Martin   as   Kilaak Queen
• Kenneth Harvey   as   Major Tada
• Jack Curtis   as   Arima / UNSC Technician / Newscaster^[9]
• Larry Robinson   as Moonlight SY-3 astronaut
• Norman Rose   as   Narrator^[9]

Appearances [edit | edit source]

Gallery [edit | edit source]

Main article: Destroy All Monsters/Gallery.

Soundtrack [edit | edit source]

Main article: Destroy All Monsters (Soundtrack).

Alternate titles [edit | edit source]

• Monster Total Advancement (literal Japanese title)
  • Monster Attack March (alternate translation, used on Madman DVD)
  • Charge of the Monsters (alternate translation)
  • Attack of the Marching Monsters (alternate translation)
  • Marching Monster Attack (alternate translation)
• Godzilla: The Grand Blitz Operation (ゴジラ電撃大作戦, Gojira Dengeki Daisakusen, Japanese re-release title) ^[10]
• Assemble All Monsters! (オール怪獣集合せよ！, Ōru Kaijū Shūgōseyo!, Japanese 8mm title)
• Monster Olympics (怪獣オリンピック, Kaijū Orinpikku, Japanese 8mm title)
• Operation Monsterland (early English title)^[11]
• The Invaders Attack (Les envahisseurs attaquent; France; French Belgium)
• The Monsters Are Attacking (De monsters vallen aan; Dutch Belgium)
• Frankenstein and the Monsters from Space (Frankenstein und die Monster aus dem All; West Germany)
• Battle of All Monsters (Kampf aller Monster; German 8mm title)
• The Heirs of King Kong (Gli eredi di King Kong; Italy)
• Extraterrestrial Invasion (Invasión Extraterrestre; Spain)
• The Monsters Are Threatening the World (Hirviöt uhkaavat maailmaa; Finland)
• Starfield Monsters (Feza Canavarları; Turkey)
• End of Monsters (Canavarların Sonu; Turkey)
• Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters (Australia)
• The Awakening of the Monsters (O Despertar dos Monstros; Brazil)
• The Monsters Invade Earth (Los monstruos invaden la tierra; Mexico)
• The War of the Monsters (La guerra de los monstruos; Mexican video title)
• Frankenstein's Monsters Threaten the Earth (Monsters van Frankenstein bedreigen de Aarde; the Netherlands)
• All Monsters Must Be Destroyed (Alla monster skall förstöras; Sweden)
• Kill the Monsters (ΕΞΟΝΤΩΣΤΕ ΤΑ ΤΕΡΑΤΑ; Greece)
• Monsters Invade the World (الوحوش تغزو العالم; Egypt)

Theatrical releases [edit | edit source]

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• Japan - August 1, 1968^[5] ; December 17, 1972
• Thailand - 1968
• United States - May 28, 1969^[12]
• United Kingdom - December 1969^[13]
• Italy - April 1969; 1977
• Brazil - March 1970
• Belgium - 1970
• Mexico - August 6, 1970
• France - October 1, 1970
• Germany - 1971
• Turkey - 1971
• Egypt - 1971
• Finland - 1972
• Turkey - 1972
• the Netherlands - 1972
• Iran - 1977
• Spain - July 4, 1978

Foreign releases [edit | edit source]

U.S. release [edit | edit source]

U.S. Destroy All Monsters poster

Sometime after Destroy All Monsters was released in Japan, Toho commissioned Frontier Enterprises to produce an English-dubbed version. This international version of the film was subsequently released in some foreign territories, although it would go unreleased in the U.S. until 1996, when the Sci-Fi Channel would license Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla vs. Hedorah for TV broadcast.^[9]

American International Pictures released Destroy All Monsters theatrically in North America on May 28, 1969. A second English-language version was handled by Titan Productions.^[1] There were some minor alterations that were done to prepare the film for its U.S. release:

• AIP moved the credits to the end of the film. Instead of the futuristic design employed in the Japanese and international versions, AIP's credits play out in white text against a black background. The original Akira Ifukube cue was retained, however.
• Deleted: After the destruction of Tokyo, an establishing shot of a Japanese sign reading "Integrated Defense Headquarters".
• Deleted: A shot of Minilla frenzying amid the battle with King Ghidorah.
• Deleted: Another shot of Minilla covering his eyes and looking away as King Ghidorah drops Anguirus.^[9]

Although AIP chose to produce its own English version instead of using Toho's existing international version^[9], both dubbed versions share dialogue that is notably different from the Japanese version. Significantly, the opening narration in both dubs sets the film in 1999; the narration in the Japanese version sets the film in "the end of the 20th century." Titan's script may have been based on the Frontier dub.

AIP's version of the film remained in syndication through the early 1980s. The film, however, would be the last Showa Godzilla film released on home video in the United States. Toho's international version would finally be released on VHS in 1998 and DVD in 1999 (and again on DVD in 2004, this time packaged with the film's soundtrack on CD, in celebration of Godzilla's 50th anniversary) by A.D. Vision.^[9] In 2011, Media Blasters released Destroy All Monsters on DVD and Blu-ray with both English dubs and the Japanese language track, but Toho forced the company to pull the discs from circulation after about a month due to rights issues pertaining to the special features.^[14]Media Blasters reissued the film on DVD and Blu-ray in 2014 without the Titan dub or any of the special features.

United Kingdom release [edit | edit source]

Warner-Pathe brought AIP's version of Destroy All Monsters to UK theaters in 1969, as part of a double feature with Killers Three.^[15] It received an X rating from the British Board of Film Censors, preventing children under 16 from seeing it. The international version of the film was first released in the UK in 1992, when PolyGram Video released it on VHS with Invasion of Astro-Monster and Ebirah, Horror of the Deep. 4 Front Video reissued the film on VHS in 1998. Sony released the Japanese version of the film on Blu-ray in 2019 as part of The Criterion Collection's Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 box set, with the international English dub available as a secondary audio option.

Box office [edit | edit source]

Destroy All Monsters had a budget of roughly ¥200,000,000 and received an attendance of 2,580,000 on its original August 1, 1968 Japanese release.

Reception [edit | edit source]

Destroy All Monsters has received acclaim among Godzilla fans. The New York Times did not review the film upon release, but film critic Howard Thompson gave it a positive review on a re-release at a children's matinee with the Bugs Bunny short Napoleon Bunny-Part in December 1970. He commented that "the feature wasn't bad at all of this type. The trick photography and especially the blended sweep and skill of the miniature settings provided the visual splash. The human beings, with good dubbed English voices, were a personable lot as they wrestled with some outer space culprits who had rounded up Japan's favorite monsters and turned them against the planet Earth."

Among modern critics, Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique wrote, "In the end, Destroy All Monsters is too slim in its storyline, too thin in its characterizations, to be considered a truly great film. It is not as impressive as the original Godzilla, and it is not as hip as name Zero. But for the ten-year-old living inside us all, it is entertainment of the most awesome sort." Matt Paprocki of Blogcritics said the film is "far from perfect" and "can be downright boring at times" but felt that "the destruction scenes make up for everything else" and "the final battle is an epic that simply can't be matched."

Video releases [edit | edit source]

A.D. Vision DVD (1999/2004)

• Region: 1
• Discs: 1
• Audio: English (2.0 Mono, international dub)
• Subtitles: None
• Special features: None
• Notes: The 2004 release is packaged with the film's soundtrack on CD and was released in celebration of Godzilla's 50th anniversary. Out of print.

Toho DVD (2003)

• Region: 2
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono, 5.1 Surround)
• Subtitles: Japanese
• Special features: Audio commentary by Seiji Tani, three 8mm films (two for Destroy All Monsters, one for Atragon) and narrated storybooks based on them, theatrical trailer

Madman DVD (2006)

• Region: 4
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Japanese, English (2.0 Mono, international dub)
• Subtitles: English
• Special features: Theatrical trailer, trivia, poster gallery, Madman-produced trailers

Tokyo Shock DVD/Blu-ray (2011)

• Region: 1
• Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono, 5.1 Surround), English (2.0 Mono, international and Titan dubs)
• Subtitles: English
• Special features: Audio commentary by Ed Godziszewski and Steve Ryfle, galleries of posters, production stills, and behind-the-scenes images, Japanese, French, and American trailers, Super 8 digest version of the film (8 minutes)
• Notes: All three versions of the film use the same Japanese video track. A dispute between Toho and Media Blasters over the special features resulted in these releases being pulled from circulation.^[16]

Tokyo Shock DVD/Blu-ray (2014)

• Region: 1
• Discs: 1
• Audio: Japanese (2.0 Mono, 5.1 Surround), English (2.0 Mono, international dub)
• Subtitles: English
• Special features: None
• Notes: Both versions of the film use the same Japanese video track. The Titan dub and special features were not on these releases.

The Criterion Collection Blu-ray (2019) [Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975]

• Region: A/1 or B/2
• Discs: 8
• Audio: Japanese, English (international dub)
• Subtitles: English
• Special features: All bonus features on Criterion's Godzilla Blu-ray, 1990 Ishiro Honda interview by Yoshimitsu Banno, interview with director Alex Cox, interviews with actors Bin Furuya and Tsugutoshi Komada, 2011 interview with critic Tadao Sato, unused effects sequences from Toho releases including Destroy All Monsters, trailers, an illustrated hardcover book with an essay by Steve Ryfle and liner notes on each film by Ed Godziszewski^[17]
• Notes: Uses a new English subtitle translation. Sony distributed a Region B/2 version of the set in the United Kingdom.

Videos [edit | edit source]

Trailers [edit | edit source]

Japanese 1972 Toho Champion Festival Destroy All Monsters trailer

U.S. Destroy All Monsters trailer

U.S. Destroy All Monsters TV trailer

U.S. Destroy All Monsters TV spot

U.S. Destroy All Monsters radio spots

1996 Sci-Fi Channel promo

Ad for A.D. Vision's VHS

John Landis' commentary on the Destroy All Monsters trailer

Miscellaneous [edit | edit source]

AIP end credits

Title card from the 1972 Toho Champion Festival version

Godzilla vs. Manda deleted scene

Trivia [edit | edit source]

• This film has the greatest number of monsters to appear in one Godzilla film in the Showa series, and the second greatest number out of all the films, surpassed only in 2004 by Godzilla: Final Wars. While the film stars many familiar faces from the Godzilla series, such as Minilla, Rodan, Mothra, Anguirus, Kumonga, King Ghidorah, and of course Godzilla himself, the film also incorporates four other monsters that had previously starred in their own films in separate continuities. These monsters are Manda, Varan, Gorosaurus, and Baragon.
  • Originally, the film was going to feature Ebirah and Maguma.^{[18] [19]} Both were swapped out for Minilla, Anguirus, and Gorosaurus. The first draft for this film called for Kamacuras ^{[citation needed]} and even Sanda and Gaira to appear.^[19] A later draft gave Sanda a cameo as a Monsterland resident.^[19]
  • Kamacuras makes a brief unintentional appearance in the film anyway; in a shot from Son of Godzilla meant to show Kumonga joining the assembly of kaiju at Mt. Fuji, a dead, webbed-up Kamacuras can be glimpsed in the bottom-left corner.
• In Godzilla: The Series, there was a three-part story arc called "Monster Wars". During these episodes, aliens known as the Leviathan Aliens appear and take control of the monsters of Earth, sending them to attack the planet's major cities (which, in this story, are identical to the Toho film except for Washington, D.C. and Hong Kong being substituted for New York and Beijing, respectively). They are eventually defeated and their base of operations, which they called Site Omega, is turned into Monster Island.
• Destroy All Monsters was intended to be the last Godzilla film, but due to its success, Toho decided to continue producing more films. However, the next film, All Monsters Attack, was comprised primarily of stock footage from previous films due to the massive budget required for Destroy All Monsters. ^{[citation needed]}
• Destroy All Monsters is the first, and so far only, film where Mothra appears without the Shobijin.
• Of all the kaiju in the film, Varan and Baragon are the least prominent. Both monsters are only seen in two brief shots in the entire film. This is because the suits used for both creatures were in a state of disrepair during the shooting of Destroy All Monsters. The Varan suit was 11 years old and not in good shape, and the Baragon suit had been altered considerably to portray multiple different monsters in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultraman series. Repairs on the Baragon suit continued even during shooting, and the planned scene of Baragon's attack on Paris had to be altered. Gorosaurus was placed in the sequence instead, meaning the monster gained Baragon's burrowing ability. In the scene where news of the monsters' attacks on the world's major cities is reported on TV, the news anchor states that the monster attacking Paris is, in fact, Baragon. This inconsistency occurs in the Japanese version and both English dubs. Baragon himself only appears in one shot during the final battle and later on Monsterland during the film's ending, though he is mentioned to be stationed at Izu, guarding the Kilaaks' base of operations. Varan is portrayed using only a small prop that appears briefly during the same two scenes and is one of only two monsters in the film that is never mentioned by name at all (the other one is Minilla).
• The 1968 manga adaptation of Destroy All Monsters includes several significant differences from the film, most notably Manda, Varan and Baragon directly taking part in the final battle against King Ghidorah. The Fire Dragon is also more true to its name, assuming the full-fledged appearance of a dragon made of flames, despite it still being a Kilaak UFO within. Baragon takes the place of Gorosaurus during the attack on Paris, while Manda's rampage in London is also shown.
  • Minilla can be seen holding a giant shark on Monsterland at the beginning of the manga.
• Along with Invasion of Astro-Monster and Godzilla vs. Megalon (which take place in the unspecified years 196X and 197X, respectively), Destroy All Monsters is one of the few Showa Godzilla movies not to be set in the year of its release. As with the aforementioned films, the exact year in which Destroy All Monsters takes place is at best ambiguous, although it is the final film in the Showa Godzilla series regardless. Narration in the Japanese version places the events at the end of the 20th century; the year is given as 1999 in both English language versions. Prop newspapers to be used in the film were reportedly printed with the year 1994, although this cannot be seen on-screen at any point in the completed film.
• In the movie Monsters vs. Aliens, the evil alien Galaxar commands his army to "destroy all monsters." If one listens to the audio commentary, the creators say that the line was put in as a tribute to the Toho film. They also called it the greatest film of all time.
• This film marks the second time Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah were under alien mind control since Invasion of Astro-Monster. This is also the first, and so far only, time Mothra was mind-controlled by aliens.
• This film marks the return of Anguirus, who had not been seen in a Godzilla film for 13 years. The character's new suit would go on to appear in Godzilla vs. Gigan, Godzilla vs. Megalon, and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, the last film with its fangs missing.
• Gareth Edwards stated that if the 2014 American Godzilla film was successful enough to spawn a sequel, he would do a Destroy All Monsters-type sequel.
• The 2011 DVD and Blu-ray releases of this film by Media Blasters remain the only official home video releases of a Godzilla film to include two English dubs.
• Destroy All Monsters was re-released at the Winter Toho Champion Film Festival on December 17, 1972, under the title Godzilla: The Grand Blitz Operation (ゴジラ電撃大作戦, Gojira Dengeki Daisakusen), alongside the kaiju film Daigoro vs. Goliath and an animated film called Panda! Go Panda!.
• King Kong appears on some of the French, Belgian, and Italian posters for the film, while the male and female Gappas are featured on the Turkish poster.
• Some of the trailers for this film include inconsistent roars for the monsters. In one trailer Mothra has a slightly altered Varan roar, Gorosaurus has Anguirus' roar combined with his own, and Manda has Rodan's roar. In another, Manda again has Rodan's roar, while Godzilla strangely possesses both Rodan's roar and Mothra's chirp.
• Though the new SoshingekiGoji suit was used for the vast majority of Godzilla's screen time, the DaisensoGoji suit returned for Godzilla's aquatic attack on New York City (its dorsal plates can be seen to be bending), and the MosuGoji suit can be glimpsed in a shot recycled from Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster of Mothra spraying King Ghidorah with her webbing.
• The first episode of the 1971 Tsuburaya Productions series Return of Ultraman, directed by Ishiro Honda, is also called 怪獣総進撃. However, the 2020 American Blu-ray release of the series by Mill Creek translates it as the international title of Honda's next Godzilla film, All Monsters Attack.

External links [edit | edit source]

• Stream of the Japanese version (Crunchyroll)
• Stream of the International English dub (Crunchyroll)
• List of firearms used in the movie
• List of changes in the American version

References [edit | edit source]

This is a list of references for Destroy All Monsters. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

Film	Destroy All Monsters (Gallery • Credits)
Monsters	Godzilla (SoshingekiGoji) • Rodan • Anguirus • Gorosaurus • Mothra • Minilla • Manda • Kumonga • Baragon • Varan • King Ghidorah
Vehicles and superweapons	C19 Personal Carrier • Moonlight SY-3 • Kilaak UFO • Half Track V2 Rockets • Typhoon Devastators • Hybrid Tank • Type M3A1 • Support Helicopter • SAR-1 • Exploration Car
Characters	Katsuo Yamabe • Kyoko Manabe • Kilaak Queen
Cast	Akira Kubo • Jun Tazaki • Yukiko Kobayashi • Yoshio Tsuchiya • Andrew Hughes • Yoshibumi Tajima • Kenji Sahara • Toru Ibuki • Hisaya Ito • Haruo Nakajima • Teruo Aragaki • Tadaaki Watanabe • Hiroshi Sekita • Masao Fukazawa • Susumu Utsumi • Robert Dunham
Staff	Ishiro Honda • Kaoru Mabuchi • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Akira Ifukube • Sadamasa Arikawa • Eiji Tsuburaya • Nobuyuki Yasumaru • Teizo Toshimitsu
Music	Soundtrack

Films
Godzilla films	Godzilla (1954) • Godzilla Raids Again • King Kong vs. Godzilla • Mothra vs. Godzilla • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster • Invasion of Astro-Monster • Ebirah, Horror of the Deep • Son of Godzilla • Destroy All Monsters • All Monsters Attack • Godzilla vs. Hedorah • Godzilla vs. Gigan • Godzilla vs. Megalon • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla • Terror of Mechagodzilla • The Return of Godzilla • Godzilla vs. Biollante • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah • Godzilla vs. Mothra • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah • GODZILLA (1998) • Godzilla 2000: Millennium • Godzilla vs. Megaguirus • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack • Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla • Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. • Godzilla: Final Wars • Godzilla (2014) • Shin Godzilla • GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters • GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle • GODZILLA: The Planet Eater • Godzilla: King of the Monsters • Godzilla vs. Kong
Godzilla short films	Monster Planet of Godzilla • Godzilla: The Real 4-D • Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa • The Faceless Star • Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D • Godzilla Interception Operation Awaji • Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest • Godzilla the Ride: Giant Monsters Ultimate Battle • The Impact of a Blue Day • Godzilla vs. Hedorah • G vs. G 2
Gamera films	Gamera (1965) • Gamera vs. Barugon • Gamera vs. Gyaos • Gamera vs. Viras • Gamera vs. Guiron • Gamera vs. Jiger • Gamera vs. Zigra • Gamera: Super Monster • Gamera vs. Garasharp • Gamera: Guardian of the Universe • Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion • Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris • Gamera the Brave • GAMERA (2015)
King Kong films	King Kong (1933) • Son of Kong • King Kong vs. Godzilla • King Kong Escapes • King Kong (1976) • King Kong Lives • The Mighty Kong • Kong: King of Atlantis • King Kong (2005) • Kong: Return to the Jungle • Kong: Skull Island • Godzilla vs. Kong
Other Toho films	Invisible Man • Half Human • Rodan • The Mysterians • The H-Man • Varan • Monkey Sun • The Three Treasures • Battle in Outer Space • The Secret of the Telegian • The Human Vapor • Mothra • The Last War • Gorath • Matango • Atragon • Dogora • Frankenstein vs. Baragon • The War of the Gargantuas • Latitude Zero • The Vampire Doll • Space Amoeba • Lake of Dracula • Daigoro vs. Goliath • Horror of the Wolf • Submersion of Japan • ESPY • Evil of Dracula • Prophecies of Nostradamus • House • The War in Space • Magnitude 7.9 • Bye-Bye Jupiter • Princess from the Moon • Gunhed • Mikadoroid • Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected • Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon • Rebirth of Mothra • Rebirth of Mothra II • Rebirth of Mothra III • Rosetta the Masked Angel: Rosetta vs. Freia • Go! Godman • Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie • Sinking of Japan • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 • Monster Hunter • The Great Yokai War: Guardians • Shin Ultraman
Other Daiei films	The Invisible Man Appears • Warning from Space • The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly • Kujira Gami • Daimajin • Return of Daimajin • Daimajin Strikes Again • Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts • The Great Yokai War • The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Other Japanese films	Japanese King Kong • The Great Buddha Arrival (1934) • The King Kong That Appeared in Edo • Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers • Super Giant • Super Giant Continues • Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears • Magic Serpent • The X from Outer Space • Gappa • Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell • The Last Dinosaur • Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds • Giant Monsters Appear in Tokyo • Negadon: The Monster from Mars • Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters • Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit • Geharha: The Dark and Long Haired Monster‎ • Demeking, the Sea Monster • Raiga: God of the Monsters • Death Kappa • The God of Clay • Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo • Jellyfish Eyes • Day of the Kaiju • Kaiju Mono • The Great Buddha Arrival • God Raiga vs. King Ohga: War of the Monsters • Howl from Beyond the Fog • Monster Seafood Wars • The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 • Nezura 1964 • Yatsuashi • Brush of the God • What to Do With the Dead Kaiju? • Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo
Miscellaneous	The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms • The Giant Claw • The Giant Behemoth • Gorgo • Reptilicus • Bulgasari • Gogola • Space Monster Wangmagwi • Yongary, Monster from the Deep • A*P*E • War God • The Mighty Peking Man • Pulgasari • Zarkorr! The Invader • Kraa! The Sea Monster • Reptilian • D-War • Cloverfield • Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus • Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus • Pacific Rim • Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark • Mega Shark vs. Kolossus • 10 Cloverfield Lane • Colossal • The Cloverfield Paradox • Pacific Rim Uprising • Rampage • Monster Island • Notzilla • Ape vs. Monster • The Kaiju Score • untitled Cloverfield sequel
Documentaries	Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection • Godzilla, King of the Monsters • GAMERA1999 • Bringing Godzilla Down to Size • The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga • Godzilla's Leading Ladies
Fan films	Bambi Meets Godzilla • Wolfman vs. Godzilla • Gamera 4: Truth • Waiting for Gorgo • Megan • G vs. G • Godziban (pilot) • Hedorah Silent Spring • Heritage

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