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Destroy All Monsters
Directed by	Ishirō Honda
Produced by	Tomoyuki Tanaka
Written by	Ishirō Honda Takeshi Kimura
Starring	Akira Kubo Jun Tazaki Yukiko Kobayashi Yoshio Tsuchiya Kyôko Ai
Music by	Akira Ifukube
Cinematography	Taiichi Kankura
Editing by	Ryohei Fujii
Distributed by	Toho AIP (US)
Release date(s)	August 1, 1968 May 23, 1969 (US)
Running time	88 min (US)
Language	Japanese English
Preceded by	Son of Godzilla
Followed by	All Monsters Attack
IMDb profile

Destroy All Monsters, released in Japan as Kaijū Sōshingeki (怪獣総進撃, Kaijū Sōshingeki^? lit. "Complete Monster Attack"), is a 1968 daikaiju eiga (Monster Movie). The ninth in Toho Studios' Godzilla series, it was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa. While the plot resembles that of Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965), this entry is significant in that it showcases 11 daikaiju, a record for the Godzilla series until Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), and Godzilla: The Series Monster Wars trilogy, which was a tribute to this film. Several of these (Gorosaurus, Baragon, Manda, Varan) had only appeared in their debut films at this point; others (Anguirus, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Minilla, Kumonga) returned from previous Godzilla films. Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee was a fighting video game released in 2002, created by Pipeworks Software, Inc. ... 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Plot

This film takes place in 1999, so it is considered the last movie of the Showa Series. By the pre-millennium year, most of Earth's monsters are captured by the United Nations and confined to a place called Monsterland (not to be confused with Monster Island), the core land mass of the Ogasawara Islands. A special control center is built underneath the island to ensure of the monsters' safety. If anything should go wrong, the spaceship known as the Moonlight SY-3 will go to action. Suddenly all communications are cut off at the island. When SY-3 intervenes, the space crew finds out all of the Monsterland workers have become mental slaves of an alien race known as the Kilaaks. The monsters too have become controlled. Godzilla attacks New York City. Rodan invades Moscow. The Mothra larva lays waste to Beijing and a dinosaur called Gorosaurus destroys Paris (though the credit for this was given to Baragon). The UN and its top bases built on the moon make a risky but necessary attempt to regain control of the Monsterland workers and the monsters. The Kilaaks' head facility is actually at the moon itself, where the crew of SY-3 destroys a machine responsible for manipulating the monsters. The Kilaaks release their last-minute help, King Ghidorah, once the Monster Island monsters wake up from their trance. The three-headed space dragon battles the ten monsters at Mt. Fuji, where the Kilaaks are finally defeated. As for Godzilla and his friends, they return to their island home peacefully. This article is about the year. ... UN and U.N. redirect here. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... For other uses, see Moscow (disambiguation). ... Peking redirects here. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Mount Fuji (富士山 Fuji-san, IPA: [ɸuʝisaɴ]) is the highest mountain on the island of Honshu and indeed in all of Japan. ...

United States version

American International Pictures released the film theatrically in the North America in 1969. There were some small alterations: The early AIP logo. ...

• Dialogue was dubbed to English.

• Deleted: The opening credits.

• Deleted: a shot of Minilla covering his eyes while King Ghidorah drops Anguirus. This was restored in the ADV Films VHS and DVD release.

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Critical Reception

The New York Times did not review the film on first 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 of 1970. He commented, "...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." The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed internationally. ... Bugs Bunny is an animated hare who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ...

 ORIGINAL SCRIPT 

There was an original script for the film was known as “All Monsters Attack Directive”, which would have many of the same elements, which would be used in the eventual film. However the difference was that the film would have ten monsters, instead of eleven. This first draft for the project included monsters that would appear in the final film, such as Godzilla, Mothra (Larva), King Ghidorah, Rodan, Baragon, Varan, Kumonga and Manda. The other two monsters were Ebirah from Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster (1966) and the giant walrus Maguma from Gorath (1962), were also put into early script. The roles for the two monsters, are unknown, except that Maguma was to be one of the guardians of the Kilaak base with Baragon, who would have been the ones to fend off the SDF. The film’s title was later changed to All Monsters Attack (the Japanese title of Destroy All Monsters), and Ebirah and Maguma were replaced with Anguirus, Minilla, and Gorosaurus. Ebira ), is an fictional enormous shrimp that was first featured in the 1966 movie, Godzilla vs. ... Tobias Ratschiller a co-founder of Maguma had already begun to work toward such solutions in 1998 when he took part of the project known as phpmyadmin. ...

Box Office

In Japan, the film sold approximately 2,580,000 tickets.

Alternate Titles

• All Monsters Attack Directive (original title)

• Attack of the Marching Monsters

• Destroy All Monsters (USA)

• Gojira dengeki daisakusen (Japan) (reissue title)

• Monster Attack March

• Kaiju Soshingeki (Japanese title)

• Monster Invasion (literal English title)

• Operation Monsterland (UK)

• The March of the Monsters

• Charge of the Monsters

DVD Releases

ADV Films

• Released: February 22, 2000

• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen (2.35:1) letterboxed

• Sound: English

• All Regions

• Note: Contains the Toho's 'International Version'; No interactive menu

ADV Films The English-language version of Tohos famous logo, used from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. ...

• Released: May 18, 2004

• Aspect Ratio: Widescreen (2.35:1) letterboxed

• Supplements: CD soundtrack album

• Region 1

• Note: Contains Toho's 'International Version'; No interactive menu; "50th Anniversary Edition"

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External links

• Destroy All Monsters! movie review
• Destroy All Monsters at the Internet Movie Database
• Destroy All Monsters at Rotten Tomatoes
• 怪獣総進撃 (Kaijū Sōshingeki) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.

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References

• Thompson, Howard. Destroy All Monsters (film review). The New York Times. December 14, 1970.