Godzilla versus Mecha-Godzilla 2

Godzilla versus Mecha-Godzilla 2

Released: 1993

MPAA Rating: PG

Genre: Super-Monster

Nuts and Bolts: What could be better than a movie about Godzilla? How about a movie starring Godzilla, Radon, Mecha-Godzilla and Godzilla’s son! More super-powered monster fun than you can shake a stick at!

Summary: Note: This movie follows the 1992 film Godzilla versus Mothra Studying the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah as a template, the Japanese defense force known as G-Force use it as the basis for crafting the ultra sturdy robot, Mecha-Godzilla. Aside from Mecha-Godzilla, G-Force also has a new super defense hover craft known as Garuda. Air Force pilot Kazuma Aoki is hired to pilot the Mecha-Godzilla prototype. But Kazuma never arrives for the final testing.

Meanwhile a joint Japanese/Russian geological survey team excavates the hills of Adona Island. Amongst stockpiles of nuclear waste, they find a sixty-five million year old egg. On top of that, an atomically mutated pterandon known as Radon lives on the island. Radon attacks the survey team, but Godzilla appears and combats the new monster. Radon makes a fair showing, violently pecking at Godzilla’s head. Godzilla gains the upper hand however and Radon is temporarily defeated.

The survey team takes the egg to the National Institute of Biotechnics in Kyoto. The egg is studied by Azusa Gojo who concludes that the egg may not be one of Radon’s. She theorizes that it may actually be a parasite egg left behind by a Godzillasaur. Sometimes prehistoric abandon their eggs in the nests of other animals only to return to claim them later. The NIB brings telepath Miki Saegusa in to help with their analysis. Kazuma Aoki also arrives (mostly so he can put the moves on Azusa). The egg begins to hatch and a small Godzillasaur whom they name Baby emerges. At that moment, Miki senses that Godzilla is near by.

As per custom, Godzilla does his city-stomp thing all through Tokyo. G-Force puts Mecha-Godzilla to use. The two colossal forces square off and the battle is on. Mecha-Godzilla starts off really strong assaulting Godzilla with a series of weapons known as the Mecha-Buster. Mecha-Godzilla launches plasma grenades from its mid section pummeling Godzilla to the ground. It then fires two shock anchors into Godzilla’s side discharging a series of electric shocks. Godzilla recovers from the attack and storms the giant robot. He dashes Mecha-Godzilla to the ground and leaves. He is now searching for his son and senses his presence on the island of Kyoto.

Meanwhile, G-Force’s Captain Takuya Sasaki learns that Kazuma never arrived for the maiden voyage of Mecha-Godzilla. He demotes Takuya down to parking lot attendant. Meanwhile G-center derives a new plan of attack against Godzilla. They have discovered that Godzilla uses a secondary brain in his hindquarters, which helps to control motor function. Without the use of this brain, Godzilla would not be able to move and will leave himself open to attack. Calling itself the G-Crusher Plan, the soldiers decide to use Baby as bait for Godzilla. Using a helicopter, they airlift Baby and Azusa over the skies of Kyoto.

On Adona Island, Radon revives and senses Baby’s distress. It perceives Baby as being something of a stepson and flies to Kyoto to save him. Kazuma learns that Radon plans on attacking the airlift carrying Azusa and hijacks the Garuda to go after them. Radon descends upon the helicopter cutting the containment tank free. The tank lands on the ground but Baby and Azusa are unharmed. Radon begins using its beak to tear through the metal roof. G-Force decides to send Mecha-Godzilla after Radon. The Garuda arrives there first and provides a distraction by flying hit-and-run tactics on Radon. Mecha-Godzilla arrives and Radon attacks it. Radon’s beak is practically ineffective against Mecha-Godzilla’s diamond hard shell. Mecha Godzilla delivers three plasma grenades into Radon’s stomach at point blank range. Radon’s mid section is ripped open and the mutated pteranadon lies dying.

At this point, Godzilla finally catches up to reclaim his son. He engages Mecha-Godzilla for the second time and the two giants tear through a baseball stadium. Kazuma pilots the Garuda to the scene and he attaches to the back plates of Mecha-Godzilla to form Super-Mecha-Godzilla. Our hero really doesn’t stand a chance against this suped-up foe and Super-Mecha quickly pounds Godzilla with a variety of lasers and grenades. Implementing the G-Crusher plan, they succeed in destroying Godzilla’s lower brain. The dying Radon meanwhile feels a particular kinship with Godzilla and flies over to protect him. Radon lands on Godzilla’s chest and dies. Godzilla’s atomic cell structure absorbs all of the nuclear radiation from Radon, which enables him to heal all of his wounds. Godzilla is now stronger than he’s ever been before. Even the nuclear particles emanating off of his skin seem to melt the outer coverings of Super-Mecha-Godzilla. Godzilla unleashes his atomic breath on the robot and Super-Mecha is soon destroyed. All of the pilots including Kazuma quickly escape.

Godzilla finds Baby and the two head off into the ocean together.

Acting/Dialogue: This film is fairly typical of most Godzilla features. Crappy dubbing combined with crappy dialogue. But lets face it; NOBODY watches a Godzilla flick for the award winning acting performances. If you made it this far in the series, then you pretty much know what to expect from the actors. Just ignore them and concentrate on the monsters like everyone else does.

Gore: There’s a bit more gore in this then in your average Godzilla movie. Shock anchors pierce Godzilla’s flesh creating a bloody mess. We also see Radon’s chest ripped open by plasma grenades.

Guilty Pleasures: Both Godzilla AND Radon are shown completely NUDE in this flick. Rrowwl!

The Good: The plot is pretty empty in this one, but when did that ever matter? It’s basically just Godzilla looking for his boy. But we get guest stars galore as we see the modern incarnations of Mecha-Godzilla, Rodan (Radon) and Minya (Baby).

The fight scenes are short but they are spaced out pretty nicely. The pacing is much more fluid in this than in many other G-flicks. Each creature gets his or her own chance to shine in the spotlight and none of it comes off cheesy or overplayed. You never have to wait too long to see a fight sequence (As opposed to other films where you usually have to wait half an hour before seeing anything decent).

Radon is probably the best thrill we get in this one. The FX used for him is really well done and he looks a thousand times better than his 1960s counterpart. At one point, Radon reincarnates as a red glowing fiery plasma bird. He looks bad-ass as he’s streaking through the skies over Kyoto.

I really get a kick out of all the new innovative means they develop for defeating Godzilla. In this one, we have the ‘Second Brain’ theory. This is fairly creative, but just like everything else, it ultimately fails. Godzilla always finds a way to rejuvenate his damaged cell structure.

Once again, Godzilla’s only re-occurring supporting character makes another appearance. Miki Saegusa gets a bit more play in this one then she did in other films. She is one of the support crew inside of Mecha-Godzilla and she uses her ESP powers to help them target Godzilla’s ass-brain. God knows these fucks couldn’t hit anything on their own. They could jump into the AIR and miss. Miki once again shows her emotional attachment towards Godzilla by way of her reluctance to fire the primary weapon into Godzilla’s brain.

And on that note, the super-charged Godzilla is bad-ass! His eye glow red and his atomic breath is a stream of red and orange fire. He even produces an aura of nuclear particles that destroy everything in its immediate radius.

The Bad: Kazuma Aoki is really annoying in this. Every film seems to feature a leading man who is really little more than an over-anxious dick-wad. They try to make him likeable but they fail here and we spend most of the time hoping that Godzilla will alleviate our misery with a quick burst of radioactive breath. Alas, the little prick survives.

By this point, we seem to be establishing a really bad trend in these flicks. It seems like every time Toho re-introduces one of its classic monsters, they appear for the space of one film and then die like a fly in a cupboard. King Ghidorah dies in the previous film, Batra dies in Mothra, Mecha-King Ghidorah dies and now Radon dies as well. Why is it G-Force can whoop the shit out of every other critter that ever walked out of monster-land but Godzilla always seems to come back for more. For some strange inexplicable reason that cheese-ass Mothra always seems to survive. Radon (Rodan) is without a doubt the second most popular of Toho’s super monsters. I really didn’t see the need for them to kill him in this flick.

Godzilla versus Mecha-Godzilla is a good ole fashioned monster flick. Nothing cerebrally intense here, but it goes well with a six-pack of beer and a bowl full of nachos.

Great Lines:

Rrrrroooowwwwwl! --Godzilla

Sqwaaaawk! --Radon

Overall Rating: 6 out of 10 severed heads.

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