Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Personally out of all things good in the Godzilla Franchise, I actually didn't like this film at all... Sorry, It felt slow, dull and boring and overall the time travel aspect of the film didn't work for me, it has not got the (back to the future) Vibe to it, it does not have the feel that I enjoy of a Godzilla film, I refuse to say I like it because I just don't! the characters don't do it for me and even though we have MIKI and she's cool as always but the others really don't do it for me. There's only a few Godzilla scenes and for me personally (I know I sound like I'm bitching) but, I just believe there's not enough Godzilla scenes in the film...Something doesn't feel all too right and I'll tell you now, there's one scene involving this guy who THINKS Godzilla's his friend and...well, You just have to see it! Lol. Anyway, this film is OK, 3/10.

This is one of those few gems of cinema; a film that you can watch time and time again and enjoy. It's not a good film in the classic sense, no, but then again most of the films I review would never be classified as 'good' in a respectable film guide such as Halliwell's. The third in the batch of 'new' GODZILLA films (which began with GODZILLA 1985), GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH has everything you could ever want from a GODZILLA film, with the added bonus of reclaiming some of the fun atmosphere from the classic highlights of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS and other monster bashes from the golden days of Japanese cinema.Along with the standard monster plot, there is also the usual parallel sub-plot with the human heroes and villains. In this case, the villains are foreigners (gosh) from the future instead of space-suited aliens, but that doesn't make them any less villainous. In fact the opening of the film has a more complex plot than usual, as Godzilla's birth is retold in detail and also to great effect. The original Godzilla - a dinosaur - looks a lot like the stop-motion type we're used to seeing in THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN and so brings back lots of good memories.The score is effective, with the usual 'monster' music cropping up every so often, and the acting is not too bad. I have to admit that some of the actors did look very similar though. The dubbing is atrocious (yippee!). I love atrocious dubbing. It's one of my guilty pleasures. Perhaps why I enjoy Italian films so much. Anyway check out the many hilarious lines uttered by a myriad of actors, including one man shouting "Make my day!" and an army captain shouting "Take that, you dinosaur!". Most of the lines are shouted in this film. Also, all voices were recorded at exactly the same volume which is quite confusing when one scene jumps straight into another.I have to admit I had my reservations about watching this film. In fact I had it on tape for a while before I got around to watching it. My expectations were probably soured by watching that travesty of film, GODZILLA 1998, and to be honest I expected more of the same. I was so surprised at the quality of this film. The special effects - apart from the standard man-in-a-suit - are spectacular! We've got all the sci-fi gizmos, from teleportation devices to ray beams, lasers, and UFOs.There's even an android in the film, which of course leads to comparisons with THE TERMINATOR, and in one scene there's a direct take from Schwarzenegger's film, where the android climbs out of the burning wreckage of a vehicle and removes his clothes (it has to be said that THE TERMINATOR was admittedly more effective however). The android then runs down the road (achieved by speeding up the film), but when we get a close up he's obviously standing still, pretending to run with a moving screen behind him! This effect is totally hilarious and had me in stitches.As for the monsters, Godzilla looks like the real deal in this film. He's mean and he's got his super radioactive breath in gear. King Ghidorah gets up to his usual tricks before becoming mechanised, and the three-headed monster is always great value for money. I don't see why the Americans decided to remake GODZILLA while the original series was still running strong. Anyhow, watch this film if you want lots of cheesy effects and fighting. Any GODZILLA fans have to see this, it's a fun-filled addition to the series. You're sure to enjoy it whoever you are.

This film is probably the most wonderful mess I've ever seen. It's loaded with plot holes, full of terrible dubbing and dialogue, and some hysterical 'special' effects (I'm looking at you, sprinting future android...)To summarise the plot (probably an exercise in futility):Some future dudes come back in time and offer to save Japan from Godzilla, who in their time has totally destroyed the country. They go back in time some more, to WWII, and teleport the dinosaur that would become Godzilla under the polar ice cap so he's safely out of the way (because just killing him would be too hard, I guess). However, before leaving, the future dudes leave some future furbies behind.Upon returning to the present (where everyone still knows about Godzilla, even though he never existed) it turns out the furbies were turned into King Ghidorah by the nuclear testing that would have created Godzilla, and the future people are using him (somehow) to smash the hell out of Japan. Turns out those naughty future people lied - in their time Japan is an economic megapower that basically rules the world, and they hijacked the time machine to come back and destroy them in the past... or something. Not sure why they bothered to enlist the the help of present-day Japanese to achieve this, rather than just doing it themselves.But anyway, the future dudes are undone when their Japanese team-member (who was apparently fine with this scheme until now) betrays them, and hatches a plan with the Japanese government to re-create Godzilla using a nuclear submarine in the hopes he will destroy King Ghidorah. But it turns out Godzilla has in fact already been created because a Russian nuclear sub just happened to crash in the exact same spot where the future people had dumped the dinosaur in the past (again begging the question why they didn't just kill it). Godzilla heads to a Ghidorah- ravaged Japan and monster smackdowns ensue. Godzilla wins, Ghidorah is destroyed and the evil future people are killed. The end, right?Nope. Godzilla now turns on Japan and begins smashing things up big time. So the future Japanese lady goes back to the future (where apparently the plan to destroy Japan has been abandoned), finds King Ghidorah's corpse, turns him into cyborg Mecha-King Ghidorah and pilots him back in time to fight Godzilla in the ruins of Tokyo. More questions, such as why didn't you travel back to a point *before* Godzilla trashed half of Japan, arise. Mecha-King Ghidorah eventually emerges from the brawl victorious, crashing into the ocean and taking Godzilla with him.Future heroine returns to her own time, but not before telling one of our heroes she is in fact a descendant of his in an apparently emotional scene that adds precisely nothing to the film. Beneath the ocean, Godzilla awakens as the credits roll.And all that happens in *one* movie.Seriously, you owe it to yourself to watch this mess. Despite only being an hour and forty-five long, with all the stuff going on it feels like a three-hour epic. There's so much crazy - the future android in particular is absolutely hysterical pretty much any time it's on screen - and the needlessly convoluted plot has more holes than Swiss cheese. Add to that those classic Godzilla model effects that manage to be both very impressive and utterly lame all at the same time and you're onto a winner.I don't even know what score to give this. But it's best taken with a healthy dose of alcohol.

Suddenly finding myself determined to watch a loony Toho kaiju extravaganza from beginning to end, I caught 1991's "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" (hereafter "GVKG")on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 8:15 p.m. on Encore. I am indebted to many of the posters who have already meticulously explained GVKG's contorted "time travel" plot. They probably did a better job than I could. Crazy as it is, that plot at least provides a semi-believable origin for both the atomic-powered lizard and the three-headed electricity spewing dragon. They were both mutated by the fallout of American H-Bomb test blasting during World War II, though not at the same time. Godzilla was originally the dinosaur Godzillasaurus, and King Ghidorah was a giant fusion of three cat-sized flying dragon things call dorats. As usual, it takes more than half the movie for the two behemoths to meet, but meet they do, not once but twice.Until the monsters' cataclysmic clash, we have to endure the usual, somewhat effeminate English dubbing of not only Japanese scientists, military personnel, and corporate CEOs, but also that of futuristic time travelers (including a Terminator-like android called M-11) who arrive in '90s Japan to offer a seemingly magnanimous chance for the nation to get rid of Godzilla forever - go back to the past before the Godzillasaurus was mutated, let the "imperialist" American World War II leave him mortally wounded, and then transport him back to the present to let him die in the ocean. Of course the aliens are not benevolent; fearing the rise of Japan as a conquering superpower, they resurrect and manipulate King Ghidorah to destroy Japan without any interference. The Japanese then decide to mutate the dying Godzillasaurus to help save them, but a nuclear sub explosively beats them to the punch. Godzilla is back but, as they say, the cure is worse than the disease. Now the Japanese must hijack an alien time travel ship to go back to the future to reanimate King Ghidorah, cybernetically fit him out, even give him a human-operated mechanical neck and head to replace the one Godzilla severed in the first battle, and send him back for a rematch. Which monster wins? Does it matter? Is Japan doomed anyway? Oops, I guess I regurgitated the plot again! :S GVKG is goofy typical Toho monster mashing, enhanced somewhat by the nuclear genetic mutation and time-spanning plot, and sometimes remarkable special effects, including a pre-Jurassic Park animation of the Godzillasaurus which "saves" a "noble" Japanese regiment, and especially its deeply grateful commander, from American naval annihilation. Also lurking in the movie is the ambivalent regard Japan has of itself as both a nationalistically and technologically proud but also reckless and potentially destructive (economically and ecologically) Japan. GVKG seems to view America that way as well. Godzilla is the "unfriendly" undying symbol of that country-conquering spirit.