This is a great movie to watch especially in the company of a four-year-old who's crazy about dinosaurs, robots, monsters and of course, Godzilla. For starters it has Anguirus, an ankylosaurus (a guy in a rubber suit walking on his knees! excellent!), Mechagodzilla (his fingers and toes are rockets! How cool is that?), Godzilla (in full good-guy mode) and King Ceaser, or Seesar, who, although he's supposed to look like a traditional Japanese dragon/god looks for all the world like a cross between Tinky-Winky and Lassie...Let's get ready to rumble!
The coolest thing about King Seesar is that this battle was prophecized long ago. Once his mountaintop home is opened up with sunlight bouncing off the little King Seesar action figure statue, he needs to be woken up! His awakening occurs when a priestess runs down to the beach and sings a great song (with full orchestration behind her) entitled "Wake Up, King Seesar!". OK, I'm not sure if that's the correct translation or not but that sure is what she's saying, I bet!
Well, if that's not enough, there are space-aliens! Space-Aliens! Look out! And there has never been a more evil silver-suited space-alien then the cigar-chomping head of the space-aliens hell-bent on destroying the human race using Mechagodzilla as a W.O.D.! ("You see? Godzilla is no match for our Mechagodzilla! Hee-hee-hee-ha!") If you're still not ready to run out and rent this 1974 masterpiece, dig this: whenever a space-alien is hurt, shot or killed, they revert to their original silver-suited gorilla-masked selves! YOW! Now I haven't quite figured this out as I don't know much about this space-alien race, but they don't necessarily revert entirely to ape-like status. Just the part or parts that get hurt! Man, this is some intense science-fiction stuff!
Anyway, even cooler than all this, during the battle between Godzilla, King Seesar (ruff! ruff!) and Mechagodzilla, Godzilla becomes...magnetic and, using powers not seen since the Russian watch-turners, he is able to pull Mechagodzilla back until he can rip that sonofabitches space-alien mecha-head off his body. *whew*
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (Gojira Tai Mechagojira) directed by Jun Fukuta is a rocking good time! ("It's really just a guy in rubber suit, Daddy!")
I give it...2 twenty foot thumbs up!
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