Godzilla is the biggest running movie franchise having over thirty films over the course of almost seventy years. From the good, to the bad and to the ugly, these films are cherished deep within my heart. I will be ranking every single movie and show that has been released in the past sixty-eight years. In due time we will have two Godzilla movies and also a live action Godzilla show. The G-Rating stands for Godzilla Rating, and that will rank the Godzilla movie alone. The overall rating is the movie itself, so it’s not biased to it being a Godzilla film. Alternatively I understand there is always bias. Every Godzilla film to a degree is quite deep and tragic with its theme at times. In which case I think that every film deserves a deeper look and critical thought around what it truly means.

35. All Monsters Attack

This utterly terrible film, filled with stock footage from previous films. It finds a way to be even worse than the concept of Minilla from Son of Godzilla. It’s unbearable to watch and I’d rather not suffer doing that ever again. The movie revolves around this kid having a dream about being on Monster Land. While dreaming he does eventually get into a real life situation. He observes past footage from Son of Godzilla and finds himself in trouble. Minilla saves the child and he finds out they have a common problem. Gabara bullies Minilla and the child after school gets picked on. In the end Godzilla has to train Minilla to fight Gabara. Thieves are hiding as they just robbed a bank and kidnapped the kid. The child is courageous now after helping defeat Gabara with Minilla. Godzilla though has to beat him up entirely to get the point straight. The kid with is new found aspirations outsmarts the robbers till the cops arrive. That’s the movie, and I am done talking about this kaiju dump of a film.

G-Rating: 1.5/10

Overall Rating: 1/10

33. Godzilla Polygon Trilogy 

Being the first japanese animated series, Polygon’s Godzilla trilogy is a mess. It has new original ideas and concepts with the Big G itself. It all comes crashing to a disappointing four and half hours. I do prefer this being a movie over a show, because it would have lacked the pacing of such. Certain things are just odd, and I don’t want to ever experience watching said things again for the first time ever again. Mechagodzilla’s design was bad as is I will admit, but they turned them into an entire city. As dull as the show looks, the city was quite the catastrophe in disappointment. The King Ghidorah plot was definitely the best part of this trilogy, but it was not worth watching City on the Edge of Battle. It had a potential in world building that was still quite stale, but could be very interesting. I don’t recommend any of the three to anyone ever.

G-Rating: 4/10

Overall Rating: 3.5/10

33. Godzilla (Hanna Barbara)

The nostalgia from rewatching this show is very odd for me. I do feel the nostalgia, but I can’t look past the fact it is quite stale and low budget. I personally don’t mind formulas especially for a kid’s show. Rewatching it though doesn’t give the same meaning as watching a similar show Godzilla: The Series. That show perfects everything that I enjoyed from Hanna Barbara’s. The biggest problem I have with this show, and even though it’s a small issue. It is the roar and what they thought sounded good enough. They didn’t have the rights to the roar so they had Ted Cassidy do it. It has a charm to it, but I wish it wasn’t an obvious human actor. The animation with the kaiju are at times like tugs of war, back and forth movement. Some ideas are quite neat, but it doesn’t have that spark of japanese media. I can’t name more than two kaiju beyond Godzilla. Which is not ideal for there being quite a good amount. I don’t hate it, but I don’t find this show worth watching beyond an episode.

G-Rating: 4/10

Overall Rating: 4/10

32. Godzilla Raids Again

Sadly being the direct sequel to the masterpiece of the original. It suffers to succeed in being another meaningful movie, instead it was a cash grab. The efforts of the first movie were not taken to note for the sequel. The movie was made just eight months after the original. Struggles to find a nice metaphor, but instead plays more like a soft american remake that was the sequel of another film. Imagine Aliens to Alien but it holds no good quality. A tone shift that doesn’t have a reason to exist. Alternatively the film has quality in that it brought Anguirus. A kaiju that to this day is adored and loved.

The biggest problem with this movie beyond the theme is the soundtrack and suitmation itself. The soundtrack is unbearable to listen to alone. The aspect of the suitmation has one key element that some do not know about. The effectiveness of suitmation is the acting and the frame rate. They use a high frame rate and slow down the footage. Giving it the effect of it being that huge. That is not done here, and on top of that they use puppets at times making it look even worse.

G-Rating: 4.5/10

Overall Rating: 4/10

31. Godzilla King of the Monsters (2019)

I personally have a vendetta for this film. Reason for distasteful misuse of too many concepts from previous films that I watch religiously. Converging a dreary mess of nostalgia that I don’t want to ever bear again. That is because it just plays like a movie if a fan made one. A fan too devoted to deviate from the originals. A collage of I agree with; awesome ideas that don’t work with rapid fire sentiments. It had some great concepts that were drained from prior easter eggs and full blown story beats. I will rant about this film till the end of time. A movie should not be built upon too many concepts from too many previous film’s story beats and should not be predictable in that manner. (It is crazy – How can a movie with too much on its plate, be predictable?) Unless the movie has hints, not full strides just to hit that nostalgia high. I was thirteen when this film came out, and I was severely disappointed with the same reasons today. I anticipated this film to stand alone as one of the craziest Godzilla films to date with new concepts and ideas. Neither expectations of which were fulfilled to my heart’s content. The jump of five years is overwhelming, even in the universe. Prior the universe was quite literally placed in the real world present day. No crazy technologies were among the film in Godzilla (2014). I feel as though this is the third or fourth film for Godzilla’s reign. This would be at least ten or dozen years after Godzilla’s public presence. This movie was at least a jump from a sequel, and the stakes were too high to measure as a sequel. It gives too much weight to Godzilla compared to Kong who was introduced as a young  but strong titan. Too many original concepts and themes were either over-emphasized or looked over. Like the lore of the titan, or their awakening by the orca. We only saw the four main titans cause a decent amount of destruction, but we never saw Godzilla fight any other titan. By the time Godzilla defeated King Ghidorah the titans suddenly all appeared as if they weren’t from different continents across the globe. I wish there was more action with the notable yet unknown creatures that were thought thoroughly and designed. Just to be denoted at the end with Godzilla (I will admit) epically and triumphantly roaring. Remember this is the longest Godzilla film to date, being two hours and twelve minutes long. If a Heisei film like this were made with a similar plot and bigger budget. The movie would cover more distance in lore, action, and everything in between that KOTM couldn’t. No offense to the director or writers, but I dislike this film greatly for what it has done and plagued the rest of the universe. Instead of being this grounded reality that humans are hopeless to the Titans to this Marvel aesthetic.

Another thing is that I actually believe and know for a fact they stole my ideas for this film. (To note) After the release of Godzilla (2014) in September I drew and made a comic called Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. A story revolving around King Ghidorah appearing and starting this eruption of kaiju awakenings and especially Godzilla. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah were actually the center stage of kaiju appearing in the comic, and that was because it was based on Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. Megaguirus, Mechagodzilla, and Biollante also appeared. In turn there was no context on Mechagodzilla. The same can be said about Biollante, but Megaguirus awoken from a volcano that erupted. Megaguirus, Biollante, and King Ghidorah all convert into one kaiju after being defeated. Creating “King Guirus” a kaiju that has no correlation to King Ghidorah but in fact is built off Biollante. A kaiju that I hold near and dear to my heart, because the design is timeless. The sequels of the comics were more obscure, and out of line.

My conclusion is to not build off the backbone of an amazing concept and throw it away with originally authentic ideas turned into useless sentiments. Something I never touched on was the Oxygen Destroyer, something so powerful and meaningful to the Godzilla universe. To then just be thrown around as this powerful yet out of nowhere plot device. The oxygen destroyer was never referenced until the very point of its use. Making it come out of seemingly nowhere and giving another prime potential titan no weight to their existence. Remember that one thing that kind of did that one thing, well that titan derives from that. It would be such a stretch to make that point actually useful. The way they could have done it, was if they had tension and references to the use of it throughout the film. Wasted potential, and a disrespectful easter egg. The movie lacks the innovations that Godzilla (2014) set the bar for this sequel. The problems that were quite prominent in the first film or present here. Dark fight scenes that make me really want to watch a better night time scene. The action is there, but all of it seems so unrealistic and unweighted. For instance we see Rodan fight Ghidorah and Mothra, but neither of which fight scenes hold up with my enjoyment. Too short and meaningless for me personally. I wish Godzilla fought more than one kaiju in this movie. In context it wasn’t needed, but I would have loved to see them fight again.

The MUTOs have grown on me over the past few years, but going from two seemingly mediacore kaiju to King Ghidorah was a leep in stakes. Alternatively Godzilla was weakened by the MUTO’s EMP which caused Godzilla to put up more of a fight. Overall I liked certain things about this film, and I think it deserves some praise. For something so trivial as creating an original plot with its own story beats. I wish they went towards the direction of (2014) in how us humans would rely on Godzilla. In the end that was the case, but the scale was drawn out and yet it felt like the same weight of 2014. If it didn’t feel like that, and this film was kaiju pandemonium. Sadly enough it didn’t deliver any of the expectations I wholeheartedly felt it could have done. The entire movie alludes to one of the greatest Godzilla kaiju action. It did not deliver either of its big chaos theme, and originality. The entire big story beats were just previous films story beats. I can’t believe how disappointing it is to watch a collage of a film that I’ve already experienced before in all technicality.

[I didn’t even talk about the characters and their roles. That is because they were written terribly and were not notable to express alone.]

G-Rating: 4/10

Overall Rating: 4.5/10

30. Godzilla Singular Point

The first Godzilla anime after almost seventy years. The show is plagued with Shin Gojira fatigue after being the first japanese media proceeding. The show was in fact so complex and incoherent for regular viewing. It was due to the writer having a PhD in physics. It does feel more like a fictional thesis than a showa inspired series. With that said, it does stand well as to fit with showa’s beats of pacing. It is still plagued with the rough pacing for the Big-G itself. Only being the last big enemy related to the red dust. Jet Jaguar is the real main character of this show which is the best part of it. Instead of being called Godzilla: Singular Point it should have been called Jet Jaguar: Singular Point. The series would not have been received well without Godzilla’s name. (Mothra is an exception) This show does play like an entire pilot episode for a Godzilla show. It does nicely build this world with thirteen episodes. A season two would most definitely create even more appreciation for this first season. It does end on it’s own accord which works, but has a very nice tease for a second season.

Everyone after the release of Shin Gojira was obsessed with the concept of Godzilla evolving or having stages. The problem proceeds with how they took inspiration obviously from Shin Gojira, but on top of that the designs. The designs of Godzilla throughout are almost distasteful references to kaiju from the Showa era. During the advertisements for this show every fan was raving over the redesigns and returns of some of their favorite kaijus. Instead what we got was Godzilla’s four forms resembling them. This was not what I wanted, because I want them to get the treatment they deserve. It does not help the ability for them to be in series, unless they themselves get another redesign. Beyond that the kaijus were unique and derived all sorts of elements from previous kaiju. Kumonga has elements of Megalon, Hedorah, and ideas similar to Megaguirus. This was a very nice difference to Godzilla’s useless four form transformation. Kumonga was a nice fold of many characters in one. While Godzilla was an evolving kaiju, Kumonga was a type of multi-stages kaiju. There are nice surprises, but also there are more disappointments than such.

I am getting into a tangent with my own opinions and concepts, but I will lay it out for clear measures of it being thought of in the future. The concept revolves around Godzilla’s evolution, in which Godzilla adapts or adopts their enemies abilities. This would make Godzilla the ultimate kaiju, and would make some nice plot armor or make it easier to heighten the stakes.

The show isn’t necessarily bad, but it’s not good enough to warrant a rewatch. That is unless there is a second season, in which I would be excited to see where the show goes. Unlike KOTM this show does not build off similar or the same beats of previous films. Instead it took its own concepts and created its own original story. To any extent of originality, good or bad I prefer over the lack there of originality.

G-Rating: 5/10

Overall Rating: 5/10

Those are my personal five worst Godzilla shows or movies. Godzilla has some real stinkers in the franchise, and still beyond this point there are films I don’t enjoy. Films can be bad, but shows take spans up to four hours of time. Now if they are worth watching you’d know, but that is not the case with those. I hope Godzilla will get a good show in due time, but I prefer the movie format over shows. I don’t recommend any of these motion pictures on this list.