Directed by:
Masâki TezukaComposer:
Michiru OhshimaCast:
釈由美子, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Tetsu Watanabe, Makoto Kamiya, Takehiro Murata, Masâki Tezuka, Katsuo Nakamura, 上田耕一, Naomi Fujiyama, 宅麻伸, 柳沢慎吾, Kô Takasugi, 田中実 (more)Plots(1)
2003. After four years of scrupulous preparation under the prime minister, a new invincible robot, Mechagodzilla, has now reached completion, armed with various weapons including the most powerful gun in history that can destroy anything in the world. Akane Yashiro is transferred to join the Mechagodzilla team as an operator who controls the mechanical monster. As soon as Mechagodzilla starts its test run, the huge shadow of Godzilla begins to rise from the depths of the ocean...the battle of the century is going to take place between Godzilla and Mechagodzilla! (official distributor synopsis)
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Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla leans more towards a straightforward action movie where the focus isn't really on ideas but simply on creating another setting for monsters to fight each other. And that just has to be enough. The human characters are pretty decent but easily forgettable, and the showdown is definitely the highlight.
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27) GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA – NEW GENERATION SERIES 2002-2004. You might get the impression that they are recycling ideas from episodes from 1974 and 1993, but that’s not quite true. This episode is actually kind of innovative in its approach to the franchise as a whole. Godzilla is referred to for the first time as "the next Godzilla", the first being the one that was killed by the oxygen destroyer in the first 1954 film, with the current one being its successor. The previous films seem to have been erased because there is clearly talk of a "second Godzilla attack on Japan" and the myriad of other attacks in the previous instalments are completely ignored. The government's defence project Mechagodzilla is referred to as 'Kiryu', and consists of a robotic skeleton and biological material made of computers powered by Godzilla DNA (a fact that plays a crucial role when Kiryu disobeys because of the biological components). Kiryu is equipped with a powerful weapon, the Absolute-Zero Gun, which fires a beam that destroys the opponent's atoms freezing them at a temperature of -273 C. Otherwise everything remains the same. The emotions are clumsily projected through the dilemmas of a scientist's daughter and the sparse tension through the pilot Akane and her manual control of Mechagodzilla. The fights themselves are a little shabby, but whatever.
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