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A spaceprobe headed for Jupiter is taken over by bodyless aliens and
directed back to earth, where it lands near a small Pacific island.
At around the same time, at the request of a big hotel chain,
photographer Kudo (Akira Kubo), Doctor Mida (Yoshio Tsuchiya), and Ayako
(Atsuko Takahashi) come to the island to see if it can be opened up for
tourism. Unfortunately, Obata (Kenji Sahara), a spy from a rival company,
has somehow managed to come with them ... but that's the least of their
problems it soon turns out when a giant octopus, Gezora, attacks the
island, which is especially problematic because this octopus can get up on
its hindlegs (hey, do octopusses even have hindlegs ?), leave the water
and wreak havok on land. Only eventually can our heroic trio drive the
octopus back into the water using fire ... but that doesn't end their
problems by a long shot, because soon enough, a giant crustacean and a
giant whatever (I really have no idea, it might be a turtle, it might be a
lizard, it might be - well it is - just a man in a monstersuit) attack as
well. Eventually, Kudo, Mida and Ayako figure these creatures must all be
possessed by some extraterrestrial intelligence that was brought home by
the space probe, and that they can only be defeated using ultrasonic noise
... and thus they have to use bats to fight the monsters. Good thing the
island has quite a few caves that house bats, bad thing that Obata is by
now also possessed by the alien intelligence and he burns the bats in
their caves to cinder. However, when he is about to burn the last cave of
bats as well as all the others, Ayako makes a plea to his humanity, and
eventually good wins over evil in Obata and he releases the bats on the
crustacean and the whatever, who suddenly engage in mortal combat and
before long fall into the local volcano. Obata, realizing that he is the
last hope for these nasty aliens, leaps into the volcano as well, and the
world is once more a safe place ...
In his time, director Inoshiro Honda has made a handful of quite fine
science fiction/monster movies, the original Godzilla
springs to mind, and Mothra and Matango
- Yog: Monster from Space however is a film more likely to hurt his
reputation, the plot is about as overused as it is trashy, the special
effects are sloppily done and lack any really exciting scenes of
destruction, and the monster suits are nothing short of ridiculous - I
mean, why would you make an octopus walk on its hindlegs ?
Sure, the film is still good for a few laughs - but I have laughed much
better elsewhere.
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