Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth
by Kazuki Omori, Takao Okawara
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Actor: Akiji Kobayashi, Akira Takarada, Megumi Odaka, Saburo Shinoda, Takehiro MurataDirector: 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: One of the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I was young when I first saw Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth, and to this day I still love it. This movie is basically a remake of the 1964 Godzilla vs Mothra, with a dramatically different plot. In this version, a divorced couple and a representitive from the sinister Marotomo company go to Infant Island to investigate a gigantic egg, which hatches into Mothra. In this film, you've got Mothra, who wants to save the earth and everyone in it. Then there's the new monster Battra, Mothra's evil twin, who wants to kill Mothra and rein destruction on the world. And then there's Godzilla who doesn't like anyone and is out to get both moths for no apparent reason. The result? Well, you'll have to watch to find out the details, but I will say that the sparks fly like their's no tomorrow.
The movie albiet is somewhat slow in the middle, and the effects are a bit cheesy, and some may think the parts where Mothra's fairies sing is just silly, but the plot is fun, the voice dubbing is good for the most part (they kinda mess up one or two people) and it has a good, pro-enviromental message (though the characters are a little fanatical about it...). The point is if you like Godzilla or Mothra you will like if not love this movie. If you don't like it, the kids certainly will.
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 minutesThat'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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