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Battle of the Titans
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is perhaps the most entertaining and controversial of the Heisei (1989-1995) Godzilla films. It is fast-paced with great monster battles, humor, intentional and otherwise, a great, imposing Godzilla design, a climatic, knock-down, drag-out kaiju battle in Tokyo and one of the best versions of King Ghidorah, the Mecha King Ghidorah.

So, what's the probelm?

Time travel. People from the future (2204, to be exact) who've traveled back to 1992 to prevent Godzilla from destroying Japan by preventing him from being created in the first place by going back to 1944, where on Lagos Island during the Pacific War, the Godzillsaurous...you'll just have to see it.

If you can get past (no pun intended; well, maybe a little) the time travel plot devise, you'll find GvsKG a lot of fun. Just don't look for great themes or moving performances with the exception of Yoshio Tsuchiya as Japanese businessman Yasauki Shindo, whose encounters with the stricken Godzillasaurous on Lagos Island, and then Godzilla in Shinjuku in Tokyo are actually well done and believable.

A worthy successor to Honda.
"Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" is, for the most part, the film that represents the Heisei Godzilla series at its apex. The updating of both the "new" Godzilla and his three-headed nemesis King Ghidorah is worthy of the original movies directed by Ishiro Honda...and that's saying a lot. While colder in tone than Honda's films (some of the sense of wonder in the kaiju world was lost in Kazuo Omori's direction), the story about the creation of Godzilla and the plot of subversive terrorists from the future planning to destroy 20th-century Japan via King Ghidorah is overall a good one. Godzilla has been revamped in what I personally consider the best suit of the Heisei series. Kawakita's special effects are for the most part magnificent, even if his King Ghidorah flies a little stiffly at times. Eiji Tsubaraya must have been smiling down on Kawakita for this film. Anna Nakagawa is particularly good as Emmy, the woman from the future who turns against her fellow future bad guys. But the movie really belongs to longtime Godzilla great Yoshio Tsuchiya, who steals the show as the industrialist Shindo, whose life was spared in World War II by Godzilla, only to later see the business empire he built destroyed by the Big G. And if this weren't enough, Godzilla alumni Akira Ifukube returns with a huge, sprawling score that recalls the glorious past of the kaiju eiga. This movie is right up there with "Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II"...it's that good. As always, I have a problem with the dubbing, but what else is new? If you can find a Japanese version on this movie, get it. If not, this will do just fine as a substitute.

One of my favorites
Godzilla Vs. King Gidorah is the third movie in the Heisei series, the first two being Godzilla 1985 and Godzilla Vs. Biollante, and continues with the higher production values.

Humans from the future have come to Japan to warn that Godzilla will soon recover from the anti-nuclear bacteria and lay waste to Japan. The best way to stop him would be to go back to 1945 and move the godzillasaurus from the Marshal Islands before it can be mutated into Godzilla. They then go back to perform the deed. After that the dinosaur saves a troop of Japanese soldiers from the attacking Americans it is teleported to the Bering Strait. But the future humans leave behind three small bio-engineered creatures called dorats.

Back in our present day Godzilla no longer exists (although there are no real changes). But now a new monster, King Gidorah, has risen. King Gidorah was created when the dorats were exposed to the radiation that originally created Godzilla. That the future humans are actually here to prevent Japan from becoming the number-one world power. With King Gidorah under their control they should be able to destroy Japan. The Japanese government decides to locate the godzillasaurus and expose it to enough radiation to recreate Godzilla. But a sunken nuclear sub has beat them to it. Godzilla lives and is bigger than ever.

At about that time a schism opens among the future humans and two, a Japanese woman and an android, decide to help current Japan. Godzilla manages to defeat King Gidorah and blow off its middle head. But then Godzilla takes up where King Gidorah left off. Now Japans only hope is for the future humans to restore King Gidorah and defeat Godzilla. Back in the future King Gidorah is located and augmented into Mecha-King Gidorah who comes back to drive off Godzilla. In the end the two monsters plummet into the sea.

This is a real fun one. I am glad Tri-Star Pictures was able to finally release this one in America after a long delay (although the portrayal of Americans is not too favorable).

MEGA King Gidorah!!!!
This movie was alright I really dig the godzilla suit.The only
thing I didnt like was the time travel thing.I mean it was cool
and all but it didn't make sense if you watching and thinking
the whole idea carefully.That android actor was not so hot and i notice they had the veteran it self in this G flick.King Gidorah
was very cool especilly Mega King Gidorah when he and Godzilla was fighting but overal this is one the far better godzilla movies I watch

This One's The Up For Heisi!
This is my second favorite Heisi G-Film. From the deep and distant future, three people(two men and one girl), come to warn us about warn us about Godzilla's radiation. It will polute the waters around the world and cause panic. People then go back and erase him from ever living! Or did they? This has one of the greatest plots in Kaiju history. I like the new King Ghidorah origen as well as how they made Godzilla turn ten times as powerful as the '85' with one explosion from a nucular sub. The reason I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 is because the actors didn't put feeling into their character exept 2 of them. ... Read more

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EPIC
This is a great movie, in my opinion, an epic.

The technical aspects (cinematography, etc) were
top notch, the acting very realistic, and the story
Shakespearean.

Great quotes I will use as my own later, like:

"You have no treasure here; your scrolls and books
are just paper to you."

"Killing the wounded is a kindness; who wants a soldier
who wants to die."

"The powerful survive, but to survive we have to fight.
We survived, but what have we gained?:

Subtitles do NOT get in the way to the movie's impact;
LOTS of action, but it helps not to be dim witted.

Bill Schaefer

very good film; the only flaw somewhat corny music;
I loved this film; however, initially I found the music to be unpleasently distracting: ill suited (using a cliched idiom of contemporary action film) to the time and place of the story. Whether or not the depiction of the cultures involved is fairly accurate or not (one would guess that it must be romanticized at least a little...but literature entertains by interpretation and distortion of "the real world")is beyond my judgment; what is important is that the film manages to compel belief that one has entered medieval central asia: a place of pageantry, brutality, honor, beauty, hardship ....and co-mingling of many cultures of east and west. The story is haunting and introduces the audience to an unsolved historical mystery: the long forgotten intentionally hidden trove of priceless artifacts and manuscripts unearthed at Tun Huang. ... Read more

Reviews (2)

EPIC
This is a great movie, in my opinion, an epic.

The technical aspects (cinematography, etc) were
top notch, the acting very realistic, and the story
Shakespearean.

Great quotes I will use as my own later, like:

"You have no treasure here; your scrolls and books
are just paper to you."

"Killing the wounded is a kindness; who wants a soldier
who wants to die."

"The powerful survive, but to survive we have to fight.
We survived, but what have we gained?:

Subtitles do NOT get in the way to the movie's impact;
LOTS of action, but it helps not to be dim witted.

Bill Schaefer

very good film; the only flaw somewhat corny music;
I loved this film; however, initially I found the music to be unpleasently distracting: ill suited (using a cliched idiom of contemporary action film) to the time and place of the story. Whether or not the depiction of the cultures involved is fairly accurate or not (one would guess that it must be romanticized at least a little...but literature entertains by interpretation and distortion of "the real world")is beyond my judgment; what is important is that the film manages to compel belief that one has entered medieval central asia: a place of pageantry, brutality, honor, beauty, hardship ....and co-mingling of many cultures of east and west. The story is haunting and introduces the audience to an unsolved historical mystery: the long forgotten intentionally hidden trove of priceless artifacts and manuscripts unearthed at Tun Huang. ... Read more