Gojira VS Supesugojira (1994)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Kensho Yamashita

Writers:

Kanji Kashiwa (writer)
Hiroshi Kashiwabara (writer)

Release Date:

10 December 1994 (Japan)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Hakai Shin Korin [Destruction Deity Descent]

Plot:

Godzilla is threatened by two new forces: Mogera - another UN built machine; and Space Godzilla - a beast spawned from Godzilla's particles in space.

Plot Keywords:

Godzilla | Tied Up While Barefoot | Gojira | Moguera | Shobijin

Cast

Megumi Odaka	...	Miki Saegusa
Jun Hashizume	...	Lt. Koji Shinjo
Zenkichi Yoneyama	...	Lt. Kiyoshi Sato
Akira Emoto	...	Major Akira Yuki
Towako Yoshikawa	...	Dr. Chinatsu Gondo
Yôsuke Saitô	...	Dr. Susumu Okubo
Kenji Sahara	...	Minister Takayuki Segawa
Akira Nakao	...	Commander Takaki Aso
Kôichi Ueda	...	Deputy Commander Hyodo
Houka Kinoshita	...	Moguera Pilot (as Hôka Kinoshita)
Keiko Imamura	...	Cosmos #1
Sayaka Osawa	...	Cosmos #2
Kenpachiro Satsuma	...	Gojira
Ryo Hariya	...	SpaceGodzilla
Wataru Fukuda	...	Mogera

Also Known As:

Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla

Runtime:

108 min | USA:106 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG (2006) | Germany:12

Company:

Toho Company

Trivia:

Originally, Mechagodzilla was supposed to team up with Godzilla against Space Godzilla, but Mechagodzilla was though to be too powerful and was changed to Mogera, a remake of Mogera from Mysterians.

Goofs:

Plot holes: It is stated that SpaceGodzilla was created by the Godzilla cells either from Mothra or Biollante, however in Gojira vs. Kingu Gidorâ (1991) Godzilla was erased from history meaning he couldn't have existed up until after that film which means there were no Godzilla cells which contradicts the creation of Biollante.

Quotes:

Lt. Kiyoshi Sato: Godzilla! I still have something to settle with you!

Movie Connections:

Spin off Godzilla: Save the Earth (2004) (VG)

Weak, weak, weak

This penultimate outing for the New Improved Godzilla seems like a throwback to the Fukuda years. The battle scenes are fun, as usual, though the US video panning-and-scanning makes it very difficult to see what's going on in many scenes. However, some of the FX are just terrible: the space sequences are more Ed Wood than Star Wars.

And then there's the humans. It seems the Godzilla movie makers are much more comfortable with monster interaction than with humans. Even if you've seen the other episodes in the series, and have followed the "development" of psychic Miki Saegusa, you'll probably feel like you've missed something somewhere... I certainly did. Ishiro Honda knew how to integrate a love story subplot into a monster movie reasonably well, usually giving it a hefty dose of tragedy to balance it out (Gojira, Monster Zero, Terror of Mechagodzilla...); but in SpaceGodzilla, the pair-ups at the end don't have any emotional truth to them at all. It's not quite as bad as the end of Godzilla 1984, though (in which the hero and heroine, who have been getting closer throughout the movie, finally look deeply into each others' eyes and... nod their heads decisively).

All in all a mixed bag, which pales by comparison to its predecessor, Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (2), and the Grand Finale that followed it, Godzilla vs. Desutoroia.