- Directed by: Takao Okawara, Kazuki Omori
- Written by: Yutaka Izubuchi, Wataru Mimura, Shinji Nishikawa
- Stars: Masahiro Takashima, Ryoko Sano, Megumi Odaka
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 45 Minutes
- Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lggl4LVqBag
Spoiler-Free Judgment Zone
While humanity is putting together a mechanical answer to Godzilla, Rodan hatches – as well as a baby relative of the giant lizard. It’s loaded with science fiction science, monster battles, human drama, and collateral damage. The effects keep getting a bit better with each movie too. We both thought it was entertaining fun.
Spoilery Synopsis
We open on scientists looking at the severed robotic head of King Ghidorah. It’s 1992, and Japan has recruited a bunch of scientists to build a fighting machine, Garuda, but it was ineffective. They used the head of Mecha-Ghidorah from the future and learned how it worked to build an all-new, much improved fighting machine. They call it Mechagodzilla. Credits roll.
Kazuma, one of the scientists, explains things to Yumi about Garuda. He gets reassigned to “G-Force.” There’s lots of training, including martial arts, before he gets to study Godzilla.
Meanwhile, some men find dinosaur bones on an island. It’s a Tyrannodon. There’s also an intact egg. And an empty egg shell. Azusa is one of the scientists, and she sees a giant flying reptile on the cliffs above the camp. It makes the egg glow. It must have come from the second egg, gotten irradiated, and mutated just like Godzilla.
Suddenly, Godzilla shows up and shoots his laser breath at the flying monster. They fight for a while as the scientists scramble around trying to not be killed. The fight is still ongoing as the humans fly off in their helicopter, along with the egg.
Professor Omae studies the egg; will it hatch? Kazuma comes to visit; he’s a fan of Tyrannodons, and Azusa finds him irritating. The egg’s color changes depending on its emotion. Also, it’s listening to the scientists’ voices, and it’s very attached to Azusa.
Miki, from the previous few films, arrives with Kazuma. She wants the professor to get his psychic children to identify an object Kazuma took from the egg. It’s encoded with music, and when they play it, the egg gets upset– and hatches.
Turns out the egg isn’t one of those flying dinosaurs, it’s a small version of Godzilla! Miki names it a Godzillasaur, and it seems pretty nonviolent. Miki jumps; she senses Godzilla, the big one, is approaching and attacking the city.
The Mechagodzilla team runs to the machine, but Kazuma is AWOL. They prep and launch the giant robot, which can fly. They head toward Tokyo, where Godzilla is. They battle on and on as Godzilla searches for the little one, which is moved to a safe room. Godzilla eventually just wanders off empty-handed.
Kazuma is reassigned to manage the parking lot. The baby goes to live in a special zoo while the humans repair Mechagodzilla. Kazuma suggests a way to improve his Garuda machine to work with Mechagodzilla.
Kazuma shows Azusa his new mechanical flying Teranodon, and they ride it around the zoo. Miki brings the whole class of psychic children to see the baby, and they sing a song for him. The song excites the baby, and far away, Rodan also wakes up.
The military wants to use the baby as bait to lure Godzilla to an uninhabited island. They want Miki to go along inside Mechagodzilla to oversee the project. Azusa needs to go along to keep the baby calm.
Before they can do much, Rodan attacks the city. When the baby gets upset, Rodan comes to protect him; they’re half-brothers, as the general points out. Rodan grabs the container holding Azusa and the baby.
Mechagodzilla is launched again, as is Garuda, a big spaceship-looking flying fighter. Actually, Kazuma has stolen Garuda since he helped design it. Rodan quickly knocks Garuda out of the sky, leaving Mechagodzilla to try alone. The big machine eventually knocks out Rodan. It’s all fine now.
No, because Godzilla chooses this moment to show up. Mechagodzilla has taken a lot of damage, and not all the weapons work anymore. The real Godzilla beats the machine easily.
Garuda comes back online, and Kazuma gets back in the battle. Garuda lands on Mechagodilla’s back, making it “Super-MechaGodzilla.”
The scientists have determined that Godzilla has a second brain deep inside his torso, and they order Miki to blow it up, which she doesn’t want to do. When it goes Godzilla cannot walk.
As Godzilla lay dying, the baby gets angry and breaks out of his container. He roars and wakes up Rodan again. Rodan lands on Godzilla and transfers power into Godzilla, reconstituting Godzilla’s brain. Rodan then dissolves.
Super-overcharged Godzilla gets up, and he’s not happy. Really not happy. Mechagodzilla’s armor plating starts to melt and soon explodes.
Azusa gives Baby Godzilla a tearful goodbye, and all the humans fly off in a helicopter. Azusa tells Miki to telepathically contact Godzilla and convince him to take the baby away. They both march off into the ocean until next time…
Brian’s Commentary
The creature effects in this one have jumped up several levels. There’s a bit of CGI, but nothing looks cartoony. This one has more monster action than any of the previous films, but it’s all entertaining, not just men in suits jumping around.
This was a good balance of the fighting monsters and the high-tech weapons. This is one of the better ones.
Kevin’s Commentary
There’s just no defeating Godzilla, at least not permanently. The collateral damage in this one seemed especially heavy – and the model work keeps getting better.
It was noticeable with this one that it wasn’t a purely Japanese cast, they added in a few international helpers.
It was a very good entry in the series, well put together. I liked this one a lot.
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