Synopsis:

Godzilla is back for more campy adventures and Tokyo stomping. MechaGodzilla shows up once again with a slightly different origin story. Toho continues to throw good looking chicks at us as well as dumb kids that know too much. Watch for mother plant...

The Review:

Godzilla returns in what seems to be yet another time line. He wreaks a little havoc and then returns to the sea. The Japanese decide to use the old Godzilla's bones that were left over from the 1st movie to build a MechaGodzilla. They also mention Japan being attacked by Mothra and bigfoot, which are references to other Toho movies. Of course, if you are a Gojira fan, then you know that his bones didn't survive in that first movie, but who cares!?

Thus, they hire a stupid scientist named Tokumitsu Yuhara. He does stuff with dead animals and robots so that they might live again. For example, he has a "trilobite" made out of robotics and crab muscles wriggling around in an aquarium. (Yeah, I didn't think that was a real trilobite either!)

Anyway, he has a daughter named Sara. She believes that when he mother died she changed into a plant (or maybe just went into the plant...it's unclear). So she's chatting and hugging a potted plant throughout the movie. Her father keeps flirting with Akane Yashiro, a part of an anti-Godzilla group that accidentally forced one of her comrade's vehicles under Gojira's foot. Now we have angst. She is turned into a secretary for about four years while the MechaGodzilla is built.

Then she's hired to pilot it and we get a jerk that tries to turn everyone against her because he's the brother of one of the people killed in the accident. It's pretty stupid that he's even on the same team. Anyone with half a brain would know that these two wouldn't mix well.

Alrighty. When they turn on the MechaGodzilla, it awakens Godzilla and he attacks. I guess the old bones called out to him. Very stupid "plot twist." Also dumb is that when Godzilla roars, MechaGodzilla goes insane. They decide that the old bones reacted somehow and caused problems. Fortunately, MechaGodzilla only runs for 2 hours unless they microwave it some more power.

NOTE: How is it that a stupid monster's that's supposed to have a brain the size of a marble (see King Kong Vs. Godzilla) can suddenly know how to control a complicated robot. It's not even a brain!!! It's just pieces of Godzilla...OK, it's a movie...don't think...back to the plot...

They say they're going to fix the problem by replacing the Godzilla tissue / DNA that's running some of the computers with the tissue of some other animal's. Of course, the idiot scientist says that then the robot will be useless against Godzilla. Thus, they never do say what they do to MechaGodzilla. They just say that the problem is fixed.

Again, they get it fixed and Godzilla shows up. This coincidence thing is going too far. Why didn't it attack at all during the four years that MechaGodzilla was under construction? What? It never got hungry or anything? Well, they fight again and it's a very satisfactory fight. MechaGodzilla flies and rams Godzilla. MechaGodzilla also picks Gojira up by the tail and swings him around. You gotta love the campiness of Toho.

Somewhere in here, Akane saves the jerk that was causing her problems throughout the movie. He had rammed his ship into Gojira's mouth. Yay! It was pretty pointless for him to do it, but he had to since that's what macho guys do.

In the end, Gojira is sent packing back to the sea and everyone is praising themselves and how brilliant they are. We've "defeated" Godzilla. Whoohoo! I say, Bunk! That wasn't a defeat. That was Godzilla getting bored. He walked off twice before that and they didn't say they'd defeated him then. Why not? The first time they didn't even have the MechaGodzilla thing and Godzilla was "defeated" (if we follow their line of reasoning). Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just keep those weapons instead of building a robotic Gojira?

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I enjoyed this movie even though the story was lacking. You don't go to a Gojira movie for its story. If you do, there's something wrong with you. Instead, if you like fake giant monsters laying the smack down on each other, then this will definitely fulfill your urge.

SOUNDTRACK: 1/2 (nice soundtrack)

OVERALL SCORE: 1/2