Gojira vs. Desutoroiâ (1995)

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Siskoid
Humanity should be banned. We caused the radiation that made Godzilla, and our answer to the 1954 original was the oxygen destroyer, which in turn mutated plankton into Destroyah, and now (1996) they fight in Godzilla vs. Destroyah. We just can't be trusted with capital-S Science. For the last couple movies, I've been wondering what they'd do with Baby Godzilla, whose only two possible fates seemed to be either dying a hero's death or replacing the old man. This is the movie where the answer's revealed, but the question hangs in the air the whole time, so I'll keep mum in this review. Destroyah has a lot of new tricks and three Pokemon forms, and the big GZ threatens to go thermonuclear and explode the planet's atmosphere unless he's stopped, so the stakes are really high on this one, and there's a real sense of a climactic ending to the current cycle. Goodbye, Hensei era, you were big, bold and offered a lot of bang. I'd just have liked this finale a little more of the editing were better, but it's messy. Monsters are toppled and suddenly standing, wounded and suddenly fine, and there's often a beat too many in reaction shots. 4 years 4 months ago
jlfitz
with English subs: https://archive.org/details/GODZILLAVS.DESTOROYAH1995JapaneseVersionHD 4 years 8 months ago