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American Title: not released yet
German Title: Godzilla-Kampf der Sauriermutanten
Released: 1992, Color
Director: Takao Okawara
Producer: Tomoyuki Tanaka
Score: Akira Ifukube
Spfx: Koichi Kawakita
Camera: Masahiro Kishimoto
Screenwriter: Kazuki Omori
Cast: Tetsuya Bessho (Takuya Fujito), Satomi Kobayashi (Masako Tezuka), Keiko Imamura&Sayaka Osawa (Cosmo twins), Megumi Odaka (Miki Saegusa), Joji Minamimino (Akira Takarada), Shoji Kobayashi (Ryuzo Dobashi), Takehiro Murata (Kenji Andoh), Makoto Otake (Takeshi Tomokane)
Monster: Godzilla, Mothra, Battra
Summary:
A meteor falls down to earth, this causes a collapse for the ecological balance of earth. Godzilla is awakened and the twin moths Battra and Mothra, too. Meanwhile, a thief is won for an expedition with his ex-wife to find Mothras eggs. They only discover the Cosmo wins (they are still singing after all this time). They tell that Battra is responsible for the balance. The egg and the Cosmos are brought back to Tokyo, but Godzilla attacks the ship. Suddenly Battra appears and fights against Godzilla, menawhile Mothra escapes. An underwater eruption spills Godzilla and Battra. The two kidnapped twins call Mothra for help. And she´s there very soon. As a larva, she "walks" through Tokyo to free the Cosmo. Military is fighting against her, but Mothra webs herself into a cocoon. In the meantime Godzilla reappears at Mount Fuji auf and tramples through Tokyo. Battra heads out of the sea, too and flies to Mothra to destroy her. Godzilla´s there, too and a great battle starts. Now we learn that Mothra and Battra are the light and dark side of earth power (humh?). The two moths build a team, they carry the injured Godzilla to the sea and Battra falls into the same ditch as Godzilla. Mothra builds an energy field over the ditch to keep Battra and Godzilla trapped forever. After that she flies back into space leaving a gilden shower behind.
My Opinion:
In spite of my aversion to Mothra and especially to the twina, I gotta say that I really like this film. There´s broght more light in the history of Mothra and sort of Ying and Yang the evil counterpart of her, Battra. Oh yes, Battra is also a moth, but it looks even much better than Mothra.
Mothra again looks lik a plushy something, what kind of opponent for Godzilla should this be?! Well made is the transformation of Batrra. The ending could have been better, in my opinion it´s too trashy. What a crap! But it is a very nice film, in spite of Mothras appearance!
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