Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster

Godzilla aficionados consider this the worst entry in the series; it certainly is one of the wackiest. The Japanese studio Toho abandoned its usual team in favor of new talent who apparently wanted to appeal to a more "hip" teen audience. But disco sequences, animated inserts, and an ecologically aware plot line simply succeed in making GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER exceedingly strange.

A fisherman brings a weird tadpole-like creature to marine biologist Dr. Yano (Akira Yamauchi). Yano suspects that it may have something to do with both the sudden decline in the fish population and a large creature that was briefly glimpsed in Seruga Bay. With his young son Ken ...