Godzilla vs. Megalon

                 GODZILLA VS MEGALON
               

                Godzilla vs Megalon was the last in the "tag team duology". This film introduced two new monsters Megalon, a giant beetle from an undersea kingdom and Jet Jaguar, a humanoid robot created by an inventor. It also saw the return of Gigan. 

                 The plot involves underground nuclear tests have disturbed the undersea kingdom of Seatopia. Meanwhile an inventor named Goro creates a Robot named Jet Jaguar.

Agents of Seatopia want control of the robot to guide their monster Megalon. They gain control of the robot and use it to guide Megalon. Eventually, Goro manages to regain control of Jet Jaguar, and sends him to get Godzilla. Seatopia requests the help of the aliens of the previous movie who lend them Gigan. Jet Jaguar returns to Goro, confirming he succeeded in his mission. Jet Jaguar ignores Goro's commands and heads to hold Megalon off until Godzilla arrives. Goro states he programmed free will into him in survival situation. This is before many of the AI uprising films, so he didn't know better. Jet Jaguar confronts Megalon. Due to his free will, he can change his size at will. Makes perfect sense. He holds his own against Megalon until Gigan arrives, and they pummel him. Godzilla arrives, and saves Jet Jaguar.

They team up, and drive the monsters away. Gigan flees to space, while Megalon returns to Seatopia. Godzilla and Jet Jaguar share a hearty handshake, and part ways. Jet Jaguar returns to normal size, and gives up his free will. He walks away with Goro as the catchy Jet Jaguar theme plays.

               This film would fall into the forgettable category if it wasn't for Jet Jaguar. He has a cool design, and a catchy theme song. It was actually conceived as a Jet Jaguar movie, but was changed to Godzilla for marquee value.  The film does use quite a bit of stock footage for the Gigan scenes, but there's enough new footage to make up for it. The choreography is greatly improved over the previous entry. Jet Jaguar actually contributes to the fight. There's one tag team move that is the funniest moment of the series since Godzilla's victory dance on Monster Zero. 

The fate of Megalon is left to that he just returned to Seatopia. Gigan's ultimate demise was featured in TOHO's Zone Fighter. A television series like Ultraman set in the Godzilla universe.  Godzilla makes an appearance in a episode along with Gigan in which Zone Fighter finally kills him.

             This film has a very interesting home media release, It was mistakenly believed to be in the public domain which resulted in many unlicensed video releases. Such as one cover featuring Godzilla and Gigan on top of the World Trade Center which never happens in the movie. Most likely done to capitalize  off the recent King Kong Remake.

Speaking of King Kong, the German version renamed Jet Jaguar King King, and put him in the title.

         This is a very enjoyable entry that stands out mainly thanks to Jet Jaguar and the well choreographed tag team fight sequences.