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.

During the Hesei era, "Good Godzilla Movies" were clearly not synonymous with "Successful Godzilla Movies". Godzilla vs. Biollante" is nowadays considered one of the best Godzilla movies, period (and rightly so, but it was a box office failure and at the time was poorly received. So Toho decied that their best bet was to, from there on out, bring back some of their most revered older monsters. And the result was honestly quite mixed. This was their first attempt, and while it has its moments, for the most part Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is mostly a sloppy mish-mash of confusing subplots and time travel that gets in the way The film has some interesting ideas but sadly squanders all of them. Much of the first half of the movie follows a group of time travelers who plan on re-creating Ghidorah and replacing Godzilla with it. They lure a washed-up author and his friend into going back to 1944, finding the dinosaur who became Godzilla, and bury it, taking three mini-Ghidorahs and placing them in the forest so they can experience the same radiation exposure that Godzilla experienced. Problem is, the time travelers are completely boring characters and so is the film's central writer. Exactly why they want to revive Ghidorah is never made exactly clear either. When Godzilla shows up an hour into the movie, it's much welcomed and the titular fight takes place about ten minutes later However, in a move only the writers (or lack of) would know of, after defeating Ghidorah, Godzilla becomes the main threat. The city's excuse? "Look at how big that thing is! It is going to destroy the city!" but even worse than this is when Godzilla rips off Ghidorah's head (???), an out of character move. And when Ghidorah gets revived, it's used to defeat Godzilla. Yeah, that goes over as well as you'd expect, which is to say not at all There's also some unmissably dumb dialogue and some random Terminator ripoff plot. But easily the worst thing about this film is that it's boring. Even when the titular fight comes it isn't worth the wait. Godzilla has never been known for having amazing characters but even then the characters here are boring and Ami comes off as overly Mary Sue-ish. As awesome as Ghidorah was, it was a one time deal and let's hope that should Toho choose to allow Warner Bros the rights to the classic monsters for the upcoming sequel to the 2014, that Ghidorah isn't used.

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.

Godzilla and time travel fumble around with each other in an enjoyable but confusing entry. It mostly confuses because the time travel plot doesn't make much sense. Why do the aliens just move Godzilla? Who knows. It's great to see a bit more origin, even if it doesn't all add up. There are some excellent comedic scenes, aided by some hammy acting. The scene with a Mr. Spielberg is a great laugh out loud moment. The war scenes are a little something new, and the anti Americanism has been blown out of proportion. One of the characters even says that the dinosaur was just protecting its island. Ghidorah soon makes an appearance, and there's even more fun to be had with Mecha-Ghidorah. This was a jump back into the cheesiness of earlier films, but after the undeserved failure of the previous installment, that was to be expected.