Destroy All Monsters Review

Review of Destroy All Monsters (1968) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

From the title screen you know you're in for something special. What was intended as the final send-off for big green instead reads as a gigantic event film in retrospect.

The human drama and plot are in relatively the same scope, borrowing a bit from INVASION OF ASTRO-MONSTER but smartly so to not obscure the kaiju hijacking with entire sequences devoted to systematic conferences based on the existence (and subsequent demands) of other aliens in their solar system, although the mind control subplot was a nice touch. The payoff is sweet and everything coinciding at Mt. Fuji helps to focus the climax with a literal apex. Definitely one of the best of the series here since the first and RAIDS AGAIN.