Review – Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Jeez, could this thing have a little more plot? I know an excess of story isn’t something I usually gripe about. But in a Godzilla movie, who wants to watch actors endlessly muddling through some nonsense about space aliens who turn into apes when you shoot them? I’m here for the guys in monster suits smashing miniature cities and breathing fire on each other. Mechagodzilla (the Bionic Monster in the original U.S. release back in the 70s) is cool, even if some of his moves are borrowed from Johnny Socko’s Giant Robot. Godzilla’s ally, King Cesar, looks like a giant Pekingese (apologies to my four-year-old niece, who loves him). Nonetheless, the monster battles are as much fun as usual. They’re just far too infrequent. Mildly amusing