Continuing the Heisei series, it’s Godzilla vs… Spacegodzilla? Wow. Really creative with the name there, Toho.
This movie continues with the G-force operations to stop Godzilla. Now, they have another 200 ft tall mech named Moguera, which made his first appearance in the 1957 Toho film, the Mysterians. Moguera isn’t as cool looking as Mechagodzilla was, but he has a good supply of weapons. He can split his upper and lower halves into separate vehicles. Overall, he’s not that bad.
There are two different projects working on ways to defeat Godzilla this time. Project Telepathy, and Project Moguera. With Project T, they’re using that psychic girl that’s been in all the previous Heisei movies, and trying to control Godzilla’s mind. The psychic girl is really stupid in this film. She keeps complaining on how everyone else is using too much violence to stop Godzilla. She thinks he’s a good guy, and constantly yells at the guys trying to do their job. She first started feeling reluctant to kill Godzilla in the previous movie. Why? I have no freaking clue. She’s just an idiot. Maybe she secretly works for PETK. Don’t know what PETK is? It’s the People for the Ethical Treatment of Kaiju. Kinda like PETA, but far more stupid and senseless.
I could go on forever on why that girl is stupid, but there’s a whole lot more to go over. So, a small team is dispatched on an island to use the mind control device on Godzilla, which doesn’t work at all. While there, they get a look at Godzilla’s son, who’s been growing a bit. He’s starting to look like Minya from the original series! Why do they keep doing that?
He also proves to be just as stupid as Minya. Spacegodzilla, the new kaiju enemy, lands on the island, and the kid walks up to him like an idiot. It’s at this point that he learns to never talk to strangers. His dad soon arrives to save his kid, but Spacegodzilla is too powerful. He even traps the baby in a crystal prison! Wow, creep.
After that, we get an explanation as to why there’s a Godzilla-like creature with superpowered candy corns on his shoulders. What, did Godzilla hump a meteorite, and this was the freak accident? No, this film offers two explanations. The one which I believe to make more sense is the one concerning Mothra. After she fought Godzilla, some of his cells were stuck on her. When she flew into space, those cells drifted into a black hole, were spat out the other side, mutated with a space crystal, and made Spacegodzilla. Yeah, that is the version that makes sense. The other version says that the cells came from Biollante. Remember at the end of that movie, when her cells drifted into the atmosphere? That’s another possibility of where the cells came from. But, some will argue that, saying that there could never have been any Biollante cells, since she was made from Godzilla, and that movie was made before Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, the movie that altered the timeline so there could be no Godzilla cells until that movie because Godzilla didn’t exist. I do not feel like explaining all that again, so please refer to my Godzilla vs King Ghidorah review.
A couple times in the film, the twin fairies communicate with the psychic girl to tell her she has to stop Spacegodzilla. A few things are wrong with those scenes.
1. If the fairies are with Mothra while she’s in space, why didn’t they just tell Mothra to fight Spacegodzilla before he got to Earth? Stupid butterfly.
2. How do they know Spacegodzilla exists anyway?
3. When the movie ends, they thank the psychic girl for saving the day, even though she didn’t do ANYTHING to stop him! All the credit goes to the pilots of Moguera and Godzilla. But they can’t be rewarded by the fairies because they’re just ‘stupid men who care only about violence and killing Godzilla’.
After a plot point that I won’t bother explaining because it served no purpose, Spacegodzilla heads to Fukuoka to build his crystal fortress while an overdramatic newswoman narrates over it all. Moguera and Godzilla show up to kick his @$$ in one of the best final battles of the franchise. It’s all sorts of awesome. Spacegodzilla starts shooting giant crystal missiles, Moguera unleashes all his firepower, Godzilla fights head on, there’s a bunch of flashy explosions everywhere, it’s amazing! The rest of the movie might not have been too great, but this fight sequence makes up for it! Especially the explosion that killed Spacegodzilla. I have to give credit to the explosives guys.
I will admit, the humans are a little better in this movie. The psychic girl is what ruins it for me. The dubbing doesn’t help either, but that’s still a given.
Even though I praise the final battle, the special effects in the rest of the film are not as good as they are capable of making them. The strings are visible almost as much as they were in the Heisei Godzilla vs Mothra. It takes away the fun. I know these films don’t have an amazing budget, but they could have done a lot better.
This film is one of the weaker entries of the series although it does manage to entertain. So if you decide to watch it, skip to the last fight. It’s fun, and worth it.
FINAL RATING: 27 / 50
STORY: 2 / 5
ACTING: 2 / 5
CHARACTERS: 2 / 5
SPECIAL EFFECTS: 3 / 5
ACTION: 5 / 5
SOUNDTRACK: 3 / 5
TONE: 2 / 5
ENJOYABILITY: 4 / 5
REWATCH VALUE: 2 / 5
OWNING VALUE: 2 / 5
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