The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla vs. Megaguirus 2000 5 out of 10

Godzilla vs Megaguirus  2000 5 out of 10

Godzilla is back and he is hungry for Nuclear energy.   Some Japanese scientist think that it is a good idea to create a weapon that makes black holes to defeat Godzilla (Not a good idea) .  They try and use the black hole weapon on Godzilla but all they accomplish is opening a pathway for some flying dragonfly creature to deposit and egg.  The egg opens and releases a monster that kills people in the streets of Japan and then lays more eggs which hatch and attack Godzilla in a cheesy battle.   Watching Godzilla battle a bunch of flies isn't that thrilling.  Godzilla blasts the swarm with his laser breath and the survivors return to mom to give her the DNA that extracted from Godzilla which turns it into a giant flying monster.   Then the real battle starts which was a decent by Godzilla standards.

Skip the movie and watch this music video for it instead

The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla 2000 1990 6 out of 10

Godzilla 2000  --1999   6 out of 10

With a new big budget Godzilla in theaters Chiller TV was running a Godzilla Marathon and so I decided to watch a bunch of these older cheesy Godzilla movies.

Godzilla 2000 is the 23rd movie in the franchise and comes on the heels of the big US theatrical release, but returns  Godzilla to his rubber suit roots with a new look.    The movie is called Godzilla 2000 because Godzilla vs the Flying Space Rock sounded too lame.   The flying space rock turns out to be a UFO that wants Godzilla's DNA.   Godzilla and the cheesy flying rock battle.  The rock gets a hold of Godzilla's DNA and mutants into a Godzilla like monster and they battle some more (why not).   Godzilla ends up the winner in this all out battle and then takes off to destroy some more stuff.    It was a decent entry in the Godzilla franchise with some fun battles.  

Too bad the movie isn't as good as this great trailer.

The Battles of Godzilla: Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 1974 out of 10

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla   1974 4 out of 10

The Franchise

This entry in the Godzilla franchise is the 14th in the series and is  a jumbled mess.   The one consistent thing in the franchise is that it features cheesy looking monsters as played by stuntman in rubber suits doing goofy WWE wrestling moves on top of set with models of cities.   Other than that the movie series has no continuity to speak of. All the movies are written as if none of the other sequels exist.  Godzilla can be good and protecting Japan in one movie and evil in the next.  It makes no sense, but you can always expect some silly enjoyable battle scenes.     

The Plot

  This movie had a crazy mixed up plot about some outer space monkeymen (in bad Gorilla masks)  trying to use Mechagodzilla to take over the world.   Godzilla is a good guy in this goofy flick in which he and another Guardian monster called King Caesar (that looks look a guy in a dog costume with bat ears)  battle Mechagodzilla.  It features a bunch of mixed in elements like some characters escaping the underground liar of the James Bond like Monkeyman villians. There is also a  strange song that seems completely out of place that is used to summon the  cheesy Dog Monster.  The battle scenes are decent and really the only reason to watch these movies, but the conclusion where Godzilla uses electricity from lightning to turn himself into a magnet and pull Mechagodzilla to his doom was super dorky.