Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla 1994

I found this movie extremely bland. The worst story so far in the Heisei series, mainly because it is just a rehash of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II, and also adds in that stupid whimsical tone that Godzilla vs Biollante did in its end half.

Space Godzilla is a very well-designed and threatening-looking foe, allowing the sets to switch up a bit with the crystal towers and even a space "battle".

But, everything else about this movie is plain bad. The Mothra crap is so stupid and the telepathy plotlines come back in at the most annoying level of reliance. The story is now fully relying on telepathy and while I could forgive that if it used it well or had a good sense to explain anything in this film that doesn't sound like a primary school kid wrote it. But no, it all stinks. Space Godzillas origin is even stupider than Biollante.

The editing of this film is also very bad. Half the time I thought that I was missing scenes, but no. It's just this movie not knowing how to piece itself together. Acting-wise, it's fine. Nothing over the top, but nothing great either. Like I said, bland.

The battles are uninspired and pail in comparison to other entries. Space Godzilla barely has a move set besides Ghidorah lighting and green lighting that allows him to use telekinesis. That the humans apparently possess and can use, even though they never tried it beforehand, or will ever use again. God, this movie is bad.

Godzilla is starting to become the hero type again like from the late 60s or early 70s films. And at least this time the human characters address this and give reasoning behind it. But it fails to actually give substantial reasoning. Sure, you could say he will protect Earth from the likes of Space Godzilla and such. But, humans are seemingly capable of creating their own machines to defend themselves. The argument made previously for Godzilla to live and not be our enemy is horrifically unjustified like most things in this movie. Without Godzilla, there would be no Space Godzilla, therefore no threat, Mothra is also a protector, so why do we need Godzilla? No reason. But, of course, he allowed to sink back into the ocean as he does with every other movie ever.

I found myself getting bored with this film pretty quickly, so I'm glad it is over.

3/10

It's practically impossible to watch Godzilla movies and take them even minutely serious. It's gotten to the point where all I can really do is continue to point out those things I find endearing and annoying. These movies are all basically the same so anyone of them that can distinguish itself from the others scores a few points.

It just so happened that this was the last "Heisei" series Godzilla movie that I hadn't viewed. I will admit that the special effects are much better than those in the original series but the stories and characters are much more generic. The improved effects are really just a product of time maturing the technology, so I'd say the original series movies are better overall. While they are corny and sometimes just downright weird (or drug-induced), they are never as bland as their '90s Heisei counterparts.

I'll give this movie some points for those aforementioned special effects and for actually conjuring up a new menace in Space Godzilla. I also thought there were a number of interesting camera shots that I can't remember seeing in too many of the more recent Godzilla movies.

On the other hand, I'll knock it down a few notches for its inclusion of the bile-inducing "Little Godzilla" (Minella) and for the stupid wannabe-Transformers mockup robot M.O.G.U.E.R.A. Oh, and for the asinine statement made by the floppy-eared "Miki" character who says something along the lines of "humans have to take care not to pollute the universe". Um...the universe is a big place, the Earth is a small place. I don't think we have enough pollution on Earth to really have to worry about that too much.