{"id":2608,"date":"2015-03-05T07:21:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasticcrapcomics.com\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2015-03-05T06:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:56:05","slug":"godzilla-vs-mechagodzilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasticcrapcomics.com\/?p=2608","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla<\/strong><\/a> ~ 1974, Jun Fukuda – Japan<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s 1974, and\u00a0Godzilla Vs Megalon<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is now a year behind us. Toho, no doubt still coping with the grief of knowing they had birthed Jet Jaguar<\/strong> into the world, decides to get right back on the horse and gives us some of that same old same old; Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla<\/em>; yet another\u00a0movie that would pit Godzilla against a monster controlled by invaders from space. Returning director Jun Fukuda, who had salvaged past alien invader Godzilla films with his Zazzy\u00a0directing, piles on the Zazz\u00a0like a damn Zazz-machine, but at this point we’ve seen this exact plot so many times that keeping it zazzy is now easier said than done. I mean, they pile on that zazz, but right now, what we need is a new story. Not zazz.<\/p>\n

…It’s still pretty fun, though.<\/p>\n

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THE PLOT~<\/strong>\u00a0While exploring the Japanese Island of Okinawa, archeologists uncover a centuries old\u00a0mural hidden in deep underground in an\u00a0ancient cave system. This mural tells of a chilling\u00a0prophecy, the exact wording escapes me, but essentially it boils down to this:<\/p>\n

\u201cA monster is gonna show up to kill everybody, but then more monsters are gonna show up, so it\u2019ll all be cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everybody flips out when this is discovered, even though by my count that prophecy has already come true like, a million times. Whatever.\u00a0They also find some Space Titanium<\/strong> in the cave, and some serious\u00a0science shit goes down. How wild and advanced is the science in Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla<\/em>? Why, it\u2019s so out there that the Subtitles can’t even keep up!<\/p>\n

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The subtitles didn’t even want to try on that word!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soon, Godzilla pops in for his daily raid. It’s assumed immediately that Big G\u00a0is the monster spoken of in the aforementioned prophecy, but something isn’t adding up.\u00a0This new Godzilla sounds sorta funny, he doesn\u2019t have the all too familiar Skreeonk style roar the Japanese have come to recognize… His spines are also shinier, and his dragon breath has\u00a0a\u00a0vague space-alien type quality to it… Plus, when Anguirus shows up to spend some quality dino time with his best buddy, Godzilla brutally kicks the shit out of him, which is totally out of character (Godzilla Raids Again<\/strong><\/em>). What the hell is going on?<\/p>\n

\"Godzilla-vs-Mechagodzilla-fight\"Holy smokes! Another Godzilla shows up! The Japanese people’s\u00a0collective mind is blown.\u00a0After a short throw down between the two warring twin Godzillas, we discover the truth, the first Godzilla was a\u00a0mechanized imposter, a robotic replica of Godzilla, who was coated in a false skin, not unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, and also probably in real life. Of course, this robot Godzilla, forever known as Mechagodzilla, is part of an alien plot to conquer the Earth. The aliens involved are pretty lame. They’re shape shifting gorilla people.<\/p>\n

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So, As part of the prophecy, King Caesar<\/strong>, the shaggy, lethargic guardian monster of Okinawa, is awoken, and he and Godzilla team up against Mechagodzilla. King Caesar is kind of cool, he\u2019s a bipedal, somewhat humanoid dog\/lion type creature, and I\u2019ve never been secretive\u00a0about my longstanding bias towards monsters with floppy ears.\u00a0King Caesar makes Jet Jaguar look like a serious mountain of shit, but we don’t actually spend too much time with him, so he isn’t given much of an opportunity to shine. Additionally, his “guardian monster” status is slightly reminiscent of an underdeveloped Mothra, so what little we do get from him isn’t really breaking new ground. King Caesar is a bit of a missed opportunity.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, Godzilla and King Caesar put the beat down on Mechagodzilla something fierce, and eventually Earth is saved yet again. The final battle is sorta bloody by Kaiju standards, which is pretty cool. On the profoundly lame and bizarre end of the spectrum, however,\u00a0Godzilla’s premeditated scheme to take down Mechagodzilla involves him absorbing electricity during a lightning storm so that he can magnetize his body and temporarily(?) possess metal based super powers like Magneto. I don’t know if you were able to actually read that without hemorrhaging, but the same thing happens in Ernest Goes to Jail<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, so I want you to think about that long and hard before you go to sleep tonight.<\/p>\n

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Really, the biggest thing this movie has going for it is that it introduced Mechagodzilla, a character who would become a favorite among Godzilla movie buffs. Aside from that, it’s really sort of a lesser entry in the series. The recycled plot is, by this point a pretty major problem to contend with, and nothing else brought to the table feels fresh enough to compensate. What\u2019s here is pretty good, but honestly, not having it be aliens would have made a world of difference at this point. Really, anything else would be better.<\/p>\n

We have one more Showa era Godzilla film left, and then Big Green takes a long break.<\/p>\n

C+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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