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Mothra vs. Godzilla

Mothra vs. Godzilla

1964
Drama, Sci-fi
1h 29m
A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again. (imdb)
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Mothra vs. Godzilla

1964
Drama, Sci-fi
1h 29m
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Rated 16 Sep 2014
60
38th
Scattershot, but fun enough to not mind the randomness. Exotic islanders! Singing at eggs! Telepathic fairy twins! Godzilla wrecking shit by accident! He's either clumsy or (and I prefer this theory) drunk as shit. No wonder he was going for that egg. Breakfast omelette, baby! The finale, featuring two Eraserhead-like phallic larvae shooting strands of white goo on Godzilla for minutes on end, has made me reevaluate everything I hold sacred in my life.
Rated 28 Jan 2008
61
36th
Not great as far as kaiju films go. The best scene features Godzilla tripping and falling face first into a building.
Rated 12 Apr 2018
90
92nd
Objectivity is impossible when it's your first. This is the kaiju flick that's had me chasing the dragon (or thirty story tall radioactive dinosaur) for ummm...we'll just say since the mid-80s. Anyway, it holds up, and I love GvsM... but I'm biased as hell..
Rated 16 Apr 2009
65
41st
I like how the majority of Godzilla's destruction depicted in this one is accidental. Overall a so-so flick but the musical score is exceptional.
Rated 07 Apr 2013
82
56th
Oh Godzilla, you're so clumsy.
Rated 14 Apr 2014
60
38th
To be honest, I can't stand lizards, and I've never not swatted at a moth, but I love singing twins...so...it's kind of a push.
Rated 18 Dec 2014
67
25th
Couldn't stand the twins until they went full corniness and started singing, which ironically enough was the only part that I liked earnestly. Mothra's a giant monster I want to like, but there's no reason Godzilla should have lost that fight.
Rated 01 Apr 2007
80
68th
Charming. Love those four-inch high Japanese girls. They must be the spiritual ancestor of Shonen Knife
Rated 30 Aug 2010
71
73rd
This direct follow-up to _King Kong vs. Godzilla_ is easily the best of the sequels I have seen, with splendid effects and a plotline that's taken totally straight.
Rated 26 Mar 2012
90
64th
Amazing movie. The special effects are amazing for its time. The story is well done for a Godzilla movie and the fights are some of the best the Showa era had to offer.
Rated 15 May 2014
32
17th
It's weird to specify levels of suspension of disbelief in reference to the Godzilla movies, but I can't for the life of me take anything about Mothra seriously. Those singing tiny twins are ridiculous, and so is the concept that an indestructible lizard with atomic breath can be taken down by a moth and two spider-web-slinging slugs. Of course, the indestructible lizard may always have been inherently ridiculous, but at least before the series tried to approach it with seriousness.
Rated 16 Sep 2018
75
37th
After having just finished Godzilla Raids Again this instantly feels like a giant step up. Most of the runtime is spent with a fun story about 2 reporters and a scientist trying to protect a giant egg from a couple villainous businessmen. I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed watching the trio plus their colleagues work through this problem. They have really great chemistry. One of the side characters, a reporter that is always eating eggs in some form really cracked me up.
Rated 19 Oct 2018
48
49th
The weirdness of Godzilla never ceases to amaze me. This is another case of being amazed where this series was willing to go.
Rated 20 Sep 2020
60
62nd
More of a direct sequel to Mothra than a Godzilla film. One of the better kaiju films in the building destruction effects. The creatures look good except for Godzilla's face. The fairies are acceptable by now (why are they locked up in a box?). The plot with the theme park was decent but they built that entire enclosure overnight! Fav scenes: Godzilla waking up drunk and stumbling into buildings; Mothra battling Godzilla; Godzilla melting tanks; Mothra twins ducking behind cover between shots.
Rated 11 Feb 2007
35
13th
More silly monster movie madness.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
73
38th
Another great, but I'm not one of his Mothra. The creature itself is pretty stupid, but you gotta love the twins.
Rated 29 Sep 2008
75
72nd
title says it all
Rated 18 Aug 2011
86
87th
A bunch of people argue over a mothra egg then BOOM a pissy clutzy Godzilla absolutely tears up the final act of the film. It needed more giant monsters at least teased in its first two-thirds. The bloody gunshot to the head murder was a bonus surprise.
Rated 17 Apr 2012
60
8th
The story was better than expected, but how else could they fill up an hour and a half? Certainly not only with miniatures of godzilla destroying whatever he comes across. Every time i would see old godzilla roam across i could not help but giggle, it just looked so out dated. If only they showed him a litl bit less, for more effect. But none the less the story was compelling enough and the tricks on screen ( stop motion, rear projection) , tho not very original, were amusing enough.
Rated 21 Mar 2014
65
41st
Better story and better effects than usual. Amusing, charming, and sincere.
Rated 19 May 2014
65
22nd
Give us back our egg!
Rated 17 Feb 2016
50
33rd
60s as fuck
Rated 12 Oct 2016
76
51st
The human story is very well done. I like the idea of Godzilla being a result of human greed. The singing twins are pretty great. As for the monsters, Godzilla looks good here, despite having wobbly jowls. What's the deal with that? The fight between Mothra and Godzilla is nicely done, but the final fight is pretty lame, making Godzilla look the weakest he's ever been. Really, military missiles can't take him down, but silly string can? Still, this is a very solid early Showa era entry.
Rated 12 Nov 2016
55
35th
Damn, my 1000th movie! Anyways, Godzilla vs Mothra, is actually one of the most slickly produced Toho films so far, and honestly it's pretty good. However, it doesn't deliver a lot of what one usually wants to see from one of their films. The fight is slow and strange compared to the other kaiju flicks, though I'd base on that on Mothra's distinct anatomy. All in all, it's not bad at all, but it's just not as fun King Kong vs Godzilla.
Rated 31 Jul 2018
93
79th
Godzilla Vs. Motha is the perfect start for what the franchise was starting to become. Monster vs. Monster with a twist. In this case, a delightful fantasy-inspired tale. The songs are nice and the effects are still amazing.
Rated 28 Nov 2019
60
35th
I went into this wondering if the "people plot" would ever get to the monsters -- half the movie is over before we see Godzilla. It turns out that the framing was the better part. Mothra is cool, but her baby larvae are a little unbelievable. It's still fun although long in parts.
Rated 05 Jan 2021
62
23rd
The story and characters were uninteresting. While those clearly aren't the attraction of these movies and just there to fill the rest of the running time, the fight wasn't as ridiculous fun as last entry to totally make up for this shortcoming. Still the fight between the large lizard and moth was quite amusing. Noticeable is that Godzilla in his last outing as a villain is less a malicious force but more just clumsy mistakenly destroying stuff.
Rated 13 Apr 2021
70
56th
Didn't have the characters of the previous few, and the characters that did exist were mostly diet versions of the Mothra characters. The effects work keeps getting better though - very satisfying explosions.
Rated 31 Oct 2021
59
18th
I found this to be a mixed bag of electrifying and strange. I enjoyed watching how the citizens react and will never turn down an opportunity to hear the original Godzilla theme.
Rated 19 Oct 2022
82
20th
Pretty sure this was the first Godzilla movie I ever saw at age like 5 and it terrified me lol. 31 now and not exactly the greatest cinema haha.
Rated 08 Feb 2024
73
48th
Godzilla in this is like a clumsy drunk - most of his initial destruction is oddly slapstick, he gets tail stuck in an antenna tower, then proceeds to trip and fall into Tokyo castle.

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