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A peek into nutty Japanese ultranationalist mentality
I loved watching giant Japanese lizards beat each other up and stomp on humanity as a child. Who could not love Godzilla movies as a kid? So, I'm coming at this review as someone who was raised on the Showa era of Godzilla movies.
Mostly, I haven't liked Heisei era movies so far. They sort of detracted from the awesomeness of the earlier Showa era movies. While this one used a recycled monster, it's really a new story. Ever been to Tokyo? If you have, you've probably seen the crazy black vans driven around by Mishima-esque ultra nationalists, spouting off insane Japanese propaganda, demanding they go back to Emperor worship and the glories of Imperial Japan. I'm pretty sure these guys took over production of this film. In fact, one of these guys is featured as one of the main heroes of the movie! This is a first for me. I've never seen these guys portrayed in any movies before, but they really exist.
All Godzilla movies are somewhat Japanese "right wing." Godzilla is a personification of America and the atom bomb. Sometimes Godzilla is a destructive force, sometimes he helps out poor Japan: sort of like America. The Japanese military, while it always fails against Godzilla and other giant monsters, is seen as a glorious thing in Godzilla movies. Really, Godzilla movies are the only outlet I know of for modern Japanese military porn. It's allowed, presumably because they lose. In this movie, however, they take out all stops. Liberal Americans from the future steal a time machine, and wreak havoc on Japan, to prevent their inevitable rise to the biggest and most powerful nation on earth by the 22nd century (their overwhelming might being driven by economic growth: a plausible scenario in 1990). They bring along a token race-traitor in the guise of a curly haired Japanese woman, and make fun of her a lot for having sympathy for her countrymen whose annihilation she somehow supported for a while. They go back in time to witness a heartless American attack on innocent Japanese soldiers, thwarted by a proto-Godzilla dinosaur! The Japanese in this movie even have a secret privately owned nuclear missile submarine "of course, we haven't kept this submarine in Japanese waters (since Japan doesn't like nuclear weapons being based in the homeland); it's somewhere not to far away from us ... in southeast Asia..." What glorious fantasy!
The monster fights are particularly good in this movie. King Ghidorah is one of the most spectacular enemy monsters of this franchise. Sure, the story doesn't make much sense: it's a Japanese monster movie for crying out loud! I haven't watched most of the more recent 'Zilla movies: I'm hoping they're all as weird and insane as this one is. I suppose some people would complain about the crazy nationalism and racism in this movie. Personally, I don't feel threatened by Japanese nationalism: I found those aspects of this movie to be completely hilarious and awesome. I mean, how can you be threatened by a film which has a brief scene showing a modernist building labeled, "the Institute for Superscience?"
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Pretty good
I actually think this movie deserves 3.5 stars, but oh well. One good thing about this movie is that we get to see what Godzilla looked like before coming Godzilla! It's SO cool!
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Barely Hidden Agenda
Although this is a fairly entertaining movie, Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah is the most nationalistic, imperialist, racist Godzilla movie I have seen In the future, Japan is the most powerful country in the world, occupying much of Asia and South America. The scenes from World War II are unapologetic, and the Americans are portrayed as the aggressors. In addition to this, the Caucasian soldiers are incompetent; they all charge right under the feet of the proto-Godzilla and are killed to the last man. The Japanese, knowing better, don't antagonize the beast, and get away unharmed. The special effects and action scenes of this film are decent for a Godzilla movie of the time. The story is lacking: the overly ambitious time-travel plot leaves many holes to be filled. This is a fun movie to watch, but bear in mind that it is politically subversive, overtly so.
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Worthy to be noticed as an orginal
The best of the new Godzilla series. It reminded me so much of the orginal movies with Ghidorah. Too Bad Godzilla was evil and Rodan wasn't in it. Oh well...still as good as King of the monsters...