Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

The Heisei Era continues with its effort to take silly monsters stomping on silly miniatures seriously and does the best job of it so far. Takao Okawara takes the script by Wataru Mimura (I’m just thankful that Omori didn’t write again) and delivers the big monster, smashy-smashy action that the franchise needs to sustain itself, but there’s also a surprisingly successful attempt to do…something with Godzilla. The re-introduction of Mechagodzilla also allows space for the humans to actually ...