Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth
by Kazuki Omori, Takao Okawara

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth
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Actor: Akiji Kobayashi, Akira Takarada, Megumi Odaka, Saburo Shinoda, Takehiro Murata
Director: Kazuki Omori, Takao Okawara
Brand: Sony
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; French (Unknown)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 205 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth

Movie Review: Godzilla vs King Ghidorah
Summary: 4 Stars

Double Godzilla feature! Godzilla's Biggest foes! Wish the picture were widescreen. But the dvd sharpness is plenty good. For a two pack, a commendable effort.

Summary of Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Run time: 205 minutes
That's right, they didn't stop making Gozilla films in the mid-'70s like you thought, but resurrected the rubberized reptile in the mid-'80s and have continued making crazy, clear-your-Saturday-afternoon-schedule offerings to this very day. And here in this double-feature disc are two of the craziest from the early '90s.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidora involves some western folks in a flying saucer from the future who come back to warn Japan of its imminent demise by Godzilla. But their real aim is to aid in that destruction, thus keeping Japan from becoming an economic powerhouse. Along the way, some cute little creatures they've brought with them are transformed into King Ghidora, the not-so-cute nemesis of Godzilla, and the two inevitably battle it out as unwitting champions of their times. The special effects are tops, the action is silly and pulpish, and the plot is lifted partially from Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1968). If you don't watch this film with a silly grin on your face, you just aren't a Godzilla fan.

Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth is a variation on one of the best of the old Godzilla films, Godzilla vs. The Thing (1964). When a meteorite hits the Earth, Godzilla is awakened, along with Mothra and his evil twin Battra, the Black Mothra! Mothra must save the Earth from these scourges, with the help of its minions, the Cosmos, those twin miniature girls who sing the eerily beautiful Mothra theme from the earlier film. And the special effects are even more impressive and hallucinatory than before, if that's possible.

The pleasure of seeing these rarities on DVD is only slightly hampered by their truncated aspect ratios; yes, Mothra's widescreen wings have been clipped down to paltry pan and scan, and thus denuded of its native Tohoscope. --Jim Gay

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