I know, not much of a helpful Summary, sorry about that...However, it is quite true : )Not a whole lot to say about another 'Godzilla' movie, but it DEFINITELY was fun! Overall a decent and novel concept. And the use of different time periods was kind of nice. I must say, that the Americans in the WWII segment were frigg'n HILARIOUS!The overall concept of the people coming back through time was novel (no spoiler; you see this almost immediately...)Unfortunately, someone already used 'Take THAT You Dinosaur!' as their summary...And, seeing those ULTRA-white guys from the future spouting off near perfect Japanese was awesome! They couldn't POSSIBLY have chosen actors who could have looked more the absolute antithesis of Japanese if they tried. That main guy's eyes were SUPER creepy! 'Wadawada...'Oh, and the android's seemingly random lapses into English were great!'YES BOSS''PERFECT...!'

The Achilles heal of these filmed has always been the humans who by default can never be as interesting as the monsters. 'Godzilla vs King Ghidorah' makes up for this somewhat with a goofy but sincere look at time travel that tries to delve into the origins of the big green guy. The faults are as one might expect, the monsters are under utilized for a great deal of the film and those wanting to see the film in the US have to suffer through a pretty awful dubbed version. The strengths? This Godzilla film has an interesting look into the past of the monster even in it's diluted time travel plot. Godzilla films are nothing if not ambitious. So many of these films try their absolute hardest to deliver layers of exposition of how each entry relates to the monster and how the citizens of Japan try to stop it. The problem is that there is so much repetition of the ideas over and over again. 'Godzilla vs King Ghidorah' deserves some level of praise because of it's time travel plot. The time travelers themselves seem like they've come out of 'Plan 9' but I really like the idea of the monster originating in a World War II subplot. It is an ambitious idea that sort of finds that balance of making up for the fact that Godzilla can be a hero amidst his total destruction of Japan. You do get a satisfaction once Godzilla is brought back to life because this film does sort of have a sense of stakes behind it.Ghidorah on the other hand does not have a character behind him. We don't really get to grasp why Ghidorah is Godzilla's greatest arch nemesis. The creatures Ghidorah spawns from are beyond ridiculous looking and so any sense of menace the character might have had is greatly limited in the long run. The actual time travelers seem to have complete control over him and so Ghidorah is never able to become his own entity. I imagine a great many Godzilla fans might have been disappointed by this characterization.The monster battles are all golden. The suits look realistic and menacing and a great deal of destruction is thrown on the screen. This thing has an epic quality that the lesser giant monster films sometimes lack. Unfortunately once we get past the monsters this film is inhabited by goofy humans. Like I said earlier the time travelers remind me so much of characters from 'Plan 9'. It isn't even the disconnect from adapting the film for Americans, these characters have legitimately bizarre dialogue that is meant to sound poignant but comes off as laughable. Godzilla gets some decent treatment here. He is the main reason to see this film. Ghidorah and his handlers leave a lot to be desired.

Heisei had a dark theme with more topical and realistic (as you can get for Godzilla) plots. Following the uninspiring box office performance of 1989's Godzilla vs Biollante, Toho took this as audiences only wanting to see Godzilla fight classic monsters. One of Godzilla's best known, if not THE best known, opponents was King Ghidorah, aka The King of Terror. Toho also switched gears with the plot and chose to take a much more wild, Showa-esque direction with the plot and theme of the film.As a general rule, time travel plots can be pretty messy. Although you can actually make this one fit, it's still questionable for the general audience that won't give it as much thought. The characters in question seem a little stale, as if they never really got into their characters. Special effects were generally okay, although they fell short of Godzilla vs Biollante. Pacing was a problem for some of the Heisei Godzilla movies, but it wasn't much of a problem here. They managed to keep Godzilla's appearance from the audience for over an hour, which is something of a feat in itself.The monsters make good appearances here. Godzilla looks about as good as he did the last time, although his 1944 "Godzillasaurus" looks hopeless. Maybe it's just hindsight bias, but after seeing what was done with Jurassic Park only two years later, I question Toho's effort here. Moving on, I'm loving the redesign of King Ghidorah (NOT a fan of the origin "monsters" for his creation, however). KG is beautiful, both menacing and majestic at the same time. When he's given a new lease on life as Mecha-King Ghidorah, he still looks great, although his inward-pointing knees remind one of a child needing a run to the restroom; this isn't to say it detracts from the monster as not many people notice/care anyways.The odd thing about Mecha-King Ghidorah is his apparent lack of a power increase over the original King Ghidorah. He doesn't really fare any better than King Ghidorah did against Godzilla despite technology from the 23rd century. Side note: the time travel plot still ruins this for me. If they could engineer the Dorats, why couldn't they just engineer a giant monster like King Ghidorah? Or if not, why wouldn't they create a giant robot like 20th century Japan could with 1993's Mechagodzilla? How is it that this 23rd century technology doesn't come close to the performance of 20th century Japan's Mechagodzilla? So many questions that time travel forces a person to bring up.If you get the impression that I think this is a mediocre movie with great looking monsters, you'd be right. The battle scenes are fairly average, but the film can be fun if you ignore the standards set by prior Heisei films. It's certainly different, androids, time travel, 23rd century humans, and all. Had it improved on character development or battle scenes compared to Godzilla vs Biollante, it might've scored just as as well. As it is, Godzilla vs King Ghidorah is a love it or hate it movie. Depends on how you view silly. If you're a Showa fan, you'll appreciate it more. I rate it a 6/10.

The third entry in the Heisei Godzilla series, and a great one at that. One reason to love it if you're a fan, as myself, is that King Ghidorah returns!! Just as maniacal and evil as he was in the Showa films. Unfortunately, King Ghidorah would be a 'good guy' the next time him and Godzilla face off, in GMK, in ten years. This film is famous for revealing the Monster King's origin. More on that later...Akira Ifukbe also returns to score the film, bringing back Godzilla and Ghidorah's original themes, which both sound spectacular. The human characters are pretty throughout,but the action sequences sub-par. One major problem with this film is simply that Kazuki Omori's screenplay called for too much human action that the budget was definitely not big enough for. However that wasn't the point in this film, at least most of the time, with its political statements and essentially deep plot, if you look at it in a satirical yet intricate perspective. In fact there are quite a bit of themes in this film if you dig deep enough and don't dismiss the film for Toho's expected budget. Moving away from that, Ghidorah not only has a new look, but a new origin. I could explain it, but you'll get it after seeing it a few times I assume. The King of Darkness looked great and his rampage scenes look awesome. The only thing I didn't like about him was that he wasn't given his original roar ( or shriek, whatever you want to call it) and instead a modified Rodan-cackle. Whatever....Godzilla looks incredible and I love his roar. He doesn't appear till the last 38 minutes but once he does he gets plenty of action scenes that were well done for the most part. The Godzillasaurus was a cool monster and its fight with the Navy vessels was great. It wasn't till later I realized they used Gamera's roar as the creature dies, I guess a bit of a spoof of some sort. I guess Toho had no idea Gamera would return in 1995 with a new series of films that would challenge Godzilla as the Monster King. Mecha-King Ghidorah was a nice edition as well and the final battle was top notch. To me, however, the battle between the two title monsters was the best and one of the best in the Heisei series. I admire it for its creativity and for its physical side. The part where Ghidorah uses his python like necks to strangle Godzilla was my favorite moment.Mr. Shindo and Godzilla's confrontation was actually a bit moving. But when a story involves time travel, there are bound to be flaws. To go into this continuity catastrophe with great detail would be too much for this review. So despite the continuity of the Heisei series now ruined, this film deserves respect for great monsters and its other aspects and I still find it enjoyable to watch. You'll literally rate it two stars lower if you watch the Sony Tristar dub, seeing as it was f*ckin terrible to say the least.