mother-daughter reunion

winner55

This film proves what I suspected all along - Godzilla is a female.

As the movie opens, Godzilla and her recently divorced mate Rodan are engaged in a rather ugly custody battle over the unhatched egg of their daughter, Baby. This fight is one of the most fun in the later Godzilla series, a real throw-back to the classic wrasslin' matches as King Kong vs. Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Gigan.

Anyway, a group of human scientists (from Japan, the center of the universe in Godzilla films) offer Baby a foster-home in Kyoto. Tired of the shouting and fisticuffs between her parents, she accepts.

Godzilla knocks Rodan for a loop (not keeping up on his alimony, I suspect) and walks all over him (typical female); then, since she's not literate enough to write "Dear Abby", and not social enough to hire a lawyer (assuming one can call hiring a lawyer a "social" act), she wanders off the trailer-camp to search for her blood kin.

Meanwhile some loopy scientists build a big rubber-"love"doll for Rodan, but worried he might get angry and start spitting fire at them, they coat it with metal and diamonds.

However, when Rodan shows up, he's furious that the humans would try to foist this gaudy 'ho on him, and he's not at all happy with the foster home being made out of plastic model buildings, so he lights a doobie and smokes most of Kyoto with the fumes. Now we're really flying high! However, the Super-Godzilla "love"doll has some sex-toys rodan's never played with before, including a hunka plasma energy shot straight for the heart - Rodan looks down for the count, and Baby may just end up in a bawdy house, or, worse, a spinster in a convent. Who's gonna pay for her schoolin', after all? And who's gonna marry a red-eye reptile, for heaven's sake? Wait! - What's that big "thumpa thumpa thumpa" noise? Yes, it's Momma G., stompin' Tokyo - I mean, Kyoto - again; and she's mad! The gaudy "love"doll" drills Big G. with plasma-dildos up the rump, where she keeps her second brain (don't laugh! - everybody needs one), and it looks like Mecha-babe will rule! - but don't count out the old boyfriend yet! Yes, true love wins out: it's Rodan to the rescue - and I won't spill the rest of the sushi, but expect a very pretty mother-daughter reunion, while a choir of angels sings Japanese love songs in the background.

What? Monster movie? You never been in a New York State divorce court, huh?

The script is silly, the cast is in top form, the special effects are groovy - Rodan not only looks better in this film than he has in the old series, but better than his brief appearance in the later "Final Wars. The action is pretty snappy, and when it slows down, some comic relief is provided with both slapstick elements as well as real wit.

Great fun for this genre.

score 9/10

winner55 15 November 2006

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1525795/