Any movie with the little Godzilla women can’t get below a 2.5

Any movie with the little Godzilla women can’t get below a 2.5

Kiryu and Mothra is one hell of a combination. Loved seeing both of them in this movie. I would’ve really loved to see the two working together at the same time, but it was awesome nonetheless. As per usual, the effects are exceptional, the score is great, and the action is a hell of a lot of fun. Great stuff. 

I have a few gripes so I’ll just throw them out there. In a very similar vein as Terror of Mechagodzilla, this sequel seems to take the premise of the previous entry and polish it, add more action/monsters, and otherwise make an effort to improve on the film. However, it suffers from the same issue as Terror in the sense that this formula makes it lose any sense of novelty. This also has the issue of missing a lot of the narrative depth present in the previous entry. These are a few gripes that, at the end of the day, don’t make the movie any less of a blast, but I do feel it‘s worth mentioning. Spectacular regardless.

Kiryu and Mothra is one hell of a combination. Loved seeing both of them in this movie. I would’ve really loved to see the two working together at the same time, but it was awesome nonetheless. As per usual, the effects are exceptional, the score is great, and the action is a hell of a lot of fun. Great stuff. 

I have a few gripes so I’ll just throw them out there. In a very similar vein as Terror of Mechagodzilla, this sequel seems to take the premise of the previous entry and polish it, add more action/monsters, and otherwise make an effort to improve on the film. However, it suffers from the same issue as Terror in the sense that this formula makes it lose any sense of novelty. This also has the issue of missing a lot of the narrative depth present in the previous entry. These are a few gripes that, at the end of the day, don’t make the movie any less of a blast, but I do feel it‘s worth mentioning. Spectacular regardless.

This is the direct follow up to against Mechagodzilla and it’s not as strong as the first but it is a fitting conclusion to the Kiryu Mechagodzilla arc. The two twins from infant island show up here to warn the main character from the original standalone mothra movie from the 60’s that because Kiryu was built using the bones of the original Godzilla its soul has been disturbed and must be laid back to rest in the ocean. The conflict then becomes what do we do now if we get rid of Mechagodzilla? Who will decent Japan now? The twins of course assure them that Mothra will defend it however in Mothra’s debut fight she doesn’t do too great of a job. I mean she knew she was dying anyway and that the larvae would take care of the rest but I mean this is your big moment to show the world you can defeat godzilla and this is how you’re going out? Honestly the issue with this is that if they didn’t decide to bring Kiryu into the fight Godzilla most certainly would have won and then everything would be fucked. Once Kiryu enters the fight there also is never a moment where the mothra larvae don’t want to hep Kiryu win. I thought there might have been a moment where they just flat out refuse to fight because Mechagodzilla is here now deliberately going against their wishes but no, they just fight along side it. You’ll notice I’ve mentioned one human and that’s because the human plot really doesn’t matter too much. I like our main guy well enough and when he’s locked inside of Kiryu and is facing certain death I felt that was a pretty strong showing for him. I thought that the arrogant pilot being one of the generals kid was going to be more of an issue but uh no, after their little skirmish they’re just kind of friendly with each other. Theres a lot of this plot that really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but the main crux of this film what holds the whole thing together is number one; giving a send off to Kiryu and retroactively kind of giving a final farewell to the original Godzilla and two that at 30 minutes into this movie the monster start throwing hands and they do not stop until an hour and twenty-four minutes in this hour and thirty-one minute long movie. That’s what you’re here for and for what it is it’s pretty great, I just wish we got some more out of the humans a little bit. This isn’t as strong of a monster brawling showcase as Desotroyah where there the humans were on the sidelines because that was the whole point of that movie. This one feels like they cut out all the fat to give you the action. That’s fine but a little bit of fat is also welcome. You don’t cook a steak with no fat then there’s no flavor and that’s this movie it’s a nice big juicy steak, cooked with the littlest amount of fat possible to it’s kind of dry and needs a coating of some sort of sauce to bring anything out of it. That sauce being the effect work and pyrotechnics in this case, this is the best visually these movies have looked up to this point and it does a lot to enhance some of these set pieces. 

Over all pretty good conclusion to the best Mechagodzilla and not really much more. If you love mothra like I do you’ll be happy to see the main character back playing the same character just 43 real years later.

This is the direct follow up to against Mechagodzilla and it’s not as strong as the first but it is a fitting conclusion to the Kiryu Mechagodzilla arc. The two twins from infant island show up here to warn the main character from the original standalone mothra movie from the 60’s that because Kiryu was built using the bones of the original Godzilla its soul has been disturbed and must be laid back to rest in the ocean. The conflict then becomes what do we do now if we get rid of Mechagodzilla? Who will decent Japan now? The twins of course assure them that Mothra will defend it however in Mothra’s debut fight she doesn’t do too great of a job. I mean she knew she was dying anyway and that the larvae would take care of the rest but I mean this is your big moment to show the world you can defeat godzilla and this is how you’re going out? Honestly the issue with this is that if they didn’t decide to bring Kiryu into the fight Godzilla most certainly would have won and then everything would be fucked. Once Kiryu enters the fight there also is never a moment where the mothra larvae don’t want to hep Kiryu win. I thought there might have been a moment where they just flat out refuse to fight because Mechagodzilla is here now deliberately going against their wishes but no, they just fight along side it. You’ll notice I’ve mentioned one human and that’s because the human plot really doesn’t matter too much. I like our main guy well enough and when he’s locked inside of Kiryu and is facing certain death I felt that was a pretty strong showing for him. I thought that the arrogant pilot being one of the generals kid was going to be more of an issue but uh no, after their little skirmish they’re just kind of friendly with each other. Theres a lot of this plot that really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but the main crux of this film what holds the whole thing together is number one; giving a send off to Kiryu and retroactively kind of giving a final farewell to the original Godzilla and two that at 30 minutes into this movie the monster start throwing hands and they do not stop until an hour and twenty-four minutes in this hour and thirty-one minute long movie. That’s what you’re here for and for what it is it’s pretty great, I just wish we got some more out of the humans a little bit. This isn’t as strong of a monster brawling showcase as Desotroyah where there the humans were on the sidelines because that was the whole point of that movie. This one feels like they cut out all the fat to give you the action. That’s fine but a little bit of fat is also welcome. You don’t cook a steak with no fat then there’s no flavor and that’s this movie it’s a nice big juicy steak, cooked with the littlest amount of fat possible to it’s kind of dry and needs a coating of some sort of sauce to bring anything out of it. That sauce being the effect work and pyrotechnics in this case, this is the best visually these movies have looked up to this point and it does a lot to enhance some of these set pieces. 

Over all pretty good conclusion to the best Mechagodzilla and not really much more. If you love mothra like I do you’ll be happy to see the main character back playing the same character just 43 real years later.

I’m finally done. I watched every godzilla film and this was a pretty good finisher to be honest. I love mothra, and this drag out fight was fantastic to see. I love the millenium era’s suitmation fights and techniques.

It’s a shame to be over now, but I’m glad it ended with something as fun and entertaining as this.

I’m finally done. I watched every godzilla film and this was a pretty good finisher to be honest. I love mothra, and this drag out fight was fantastic to see. I love the millenium era’s suitmation fights and techniques.

It’s a shame to be over now, but I’m glad it ended with something as fun and entertaining as this.

'Does mothra know she's gonna die?"

Of course she fucking does kid, thats her thing.

'Does mothra know she's gonna die?"

Of course she fucking does kid, thats her thing.