This is certainly not one of Ishiro Honda's better efforts; but it does kind of work. Some would-be alien invaders hitch a ride on a probe returning to the Earth that lands on a Pacific atoll. They set about creating supersized monsters bent on humanity's destruction so they can take over the world. Nothing new so far, nor indeed anywhere really, as a team of human hoteliers and local islanders try to fight off this threat. The visual effects are OK - the monsters; explosions and acting are low budget, but together keep this fun yarn moving along fine. The dubbing actors are way over the top and the music grates but it's still just about worth watching - for some reason really bad Japanese films of this genre are not as bad as anyone else's!

My love for giant monster movies was satisfied by this creative little Ishiro Honda/Toho film. The action starts immediately when an alien mist turns a space capsule on its way to Jupiter around and floats it back to Earth. The alien mist eventually possesses a cuttlefish, a crab and a turtle, growing them to massive size. Each of the beasts take their turn attacking a survey crew, who certainly have the benefit of lots of firearms and gasoline for being stranded on a tropical island.

Together with the island's natives, the crew defeats each of the monsters and turns back the alien mist. It doesn't involve atom bombs or military might, just some grit and determination...oh, and massive amounts of luck and amazingly accurate assumptions.

The cuttlefish was a creative kaiju effect and the crab was well done. The turtle was neither. While each of the monsters were large, they weren't Godzilla or Gamera sized. None of them would have been much of a challenge for an army and they wouldn't have been capable of toppling a skyscraper. Grass huts, yes. Tokyo tower, not so much.

There were a few drawbacks including a terrible dub and a story that ends in the same fashion as several other kaiju movies.