**** Ah Yes, the Ol' "Lizard Fighting and Insect" Story

This movie features the rather cute notion of alternate realities, as well as some wacky science. I laughed my head off when I first heard of the plot, and the movie didn’t disappoint in terms of silliness. Apparently, an anti-Godzilla unit called the G-Graspers want to destroy Godzilla by firing a miniature black hole from an orbiting satellite to suck Godzilla into an alternate dimension but in the process the end up with a 350-million year old giant dragonfly popping out a wormhole in space-time. Yep, good old-fashioned sci-fi at it’s best.

In this reality, Godzilla always looked like he does, even when trashing Tokyo (shown here with modified stock footage). The result in this case leads to the capital being moved to Osaka. Also, he attacked a nuke plant in 1966, inciting a plan for clean energy, resulting in a new "plasma power plant", which Godzilla proceeds to trash in 1996. So the mad scientists of Japan come up with the cockamamie plan to destroy Godzilla with a black hole cannon. During the test firing, a wormhole of sorts opens up, and a giant dragonfly come out to stick an egg on the ground. It is found by a little kid, who makes the big mistake of putting it in the sewers of Tokyo. The egg splits off into numerous smaller eggs, which form creatures called meganulon, and after metamorphosis they become meganula. For reasons unexplained Tokyo is flooded with about 60 feet of water, which help the meganula with their ultimate plan of making one big dragonfly called Megaguirus. They feed it with energy they get by swarming over Godzilla and sucking up some nuclear energy. The G-Graspers use their nifty black hole cannon in an attempt to kill off both the swarm and Godzilla, but they miss. As the cannon is recharging, Godzilla makes his way to Tokyo for a showdown with Megaguirus. Needless to say Godzilla wins the fight. He then trashes a secret plasma research facility (what incited him to begin with), and the G-Graspers finally succeed in hitting Godzilla with their black hole (by locking onto their nifty jet fighter thingy as it crashes into him). Godzilla is destroyed, and the world is safe from him... or are they?

It seems as if they went ahead and got all their silly (yet kinda cool) ideas out as once: alternate realities, black hole weaponry, anti-Godzilla fighters with a nifty aircraft, fighting Godzilla with rocket launchers, flooding Tokyo, time-holes to the past, giant bugs, and even having someone surfing on Godzilla’s back. Fun stuff. Overall these ideas are glued together with a fairly descent plot. It flows pretty well, actually has character development, and displays the attractions of the film with not too much confusion on why they are there. It gets a little slow-paced at times, but for the most part it keeps you entertained.

Now what’s really entertaining is the fight with Godzilla and Megaguirus. They went old school with it, which means that Godzilla is a smart fighter who uses a bunch of nifty moves to bring down his opponent. Not quite at the same level as the tail-slide kick from "Godzilla vs. Megalon", but still fun stuff. It’ll have you laughing and cheering the whole way. Megaguirus himself puts up a pretty descent fight, displaying a level of agility never before scene. It doesn’t have to many powers or anything, but he’s smart enough to bash Godzilla round pretty good. The fight is pretty good but a little static; it only takes place in one section of Tokyo. The special effects really help out here as well as the rest of the movie. Rather well done for the most part, about at the same level as "Godzilla 2000" with a bit better computer generated effects (they still look fake though). They seemed to want to fit the monsters into real backdrops whenever possible, which alternately looks really cool and really out-of-place. The character designs of the kaiju are pretty good. I always liked the design for Godzilla they used, and Megaguirus looks pretty good as well. Only problem with Megaguirus is that it’s not very original. Think of a combination of Battra, Legion, Pokemon, and the original Meganulons from "Rodan", and that’s what you get.

For the most part this is an entertaining movie. It’s silly, it’s campy, there are plenty of things to make fun off, but it’s all in a base that’s pretty well done. The plot works right, the special effects are great, and the title battle is worth seeing. Sure, it has it’s problems, but overall you’ll have a good time watching this.

Good Plot

Great special effects

Good music, as usual

A number of rather nifty ideas

Lots of silly stuff to make fun of and enjoy

Nice, old school kaiju battle

Plot gets a little boring at times

Although fun to make fun of, this still has a lot of stupid stuff in it

Gee, I had no idea that satellites drop out of orbit... strait down!

Seriously now, a weapon that fires miniature black holes? I think we were safer with Godzilla

Ha! I can see the strings holding Megaguirus up!

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