8 Godzilla Films You Need To See

Joe R Lansdale says there isn’t a comedy as good as an old Godzilla movie and the funniest has to be Godzilla Vs Megalon, whose low budget and utterly bonkers plot ensures a good time will be had by all.

Upset by mankind’s nuclear testing, an underwater civilization known as Seatopia unleashes Megalon (a kung fu fighting giant beetle) to destroy all humans but they’ve reckoned without Godzilla, who in this instalment is joined by Jet Jaguar, the oddest movie robot of all time. Painted bright red and yellow, with a pointy-shaped head, Jet Jaguar doesn’t appear to be of much use until he transforms himself into a giant to stomp his attackers.

Godzilla Vs Megalon might short on jaw-dropping spectacle, but there’s fun to be had as guys in rubber monster suits clobber each other on cardboard sets during the extended climax. So convinced were the filmmakers that Jet Jaguar would become an icon that they immortalized him in the film’s closing song (“Godzilla and Jet Jaguar, punch punch punch, let’s do our best”).

Though he never appeared in another film, the character became a fixture of the Godzilla video games.