DEATH TO FULLSCREEN!!!

DO NOT BUY THIS DVD!! "Godzilla VS Mothra" Is a great movie, it is a shame that it is presented here, with this DVD, in a full screen format. I just watched the uncut, Japanese LETTER BOX version DVD a friend loaned me, and was greatly disappointed at just how much the American full screen formatted version destroys the film. Do yourself a favor and don't wast your time or money on this FULL SCREEN PIECE OF CRAP, for it is unworthy of a space in your DVD collection. Wait for the letter box version.

good movie but.....

this was a very good with some neat scenes and cool milatary stuff but i think this movie needs more destruction in here like when godzilla attacks nogoya he could destroy more then that but other then that it's a good movie.

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In my opinion, the best of all Godzilla movies ! The first while definitely a classic, but a little anti climactic with the poor underwater scenes .

Synopsis: A enormous Airbus-size egg is washed onto the shores of a Japanese harbour. A greedy, enterprising businessman, who is developing a huge adjacent property, sees the profit in such a venture to display this oddity of nature, washed up on the beach from Mothra's/It's Island where atomic experimentation had taked place. .

A very pretty photographer and her reporter freind from a local newspaper put their noses a little too deep into the story and eventually wake Godzilla who happens to be hibernating on the land about to be developed.

In the meantime, two miniature women from It's Island plead for the return of Mothra's egg, warning catastrophe is inevitable if the greedy people do not concede. Godzilla, being extremely pissed off for having been woken, proceeds to wreak destruction across the city.

At this point, it is worth mentioning that, while the expensive high speed photography is gone , the various effects in this chapter of the big, bad rubber guy are likely the best of the series. The animated lightning in one of the attempts to destroy Godzilla are very well done and the "matte" lines are all but invisible .

Having been refused the return of Mothra's egg the scientists who realize the extent of the danger ask the inhabitants of Mothra's Island to help them destroy Godzilla.

This is the part of the film that has a suprising twist. I won't tell the ending but this particular chapter of the film is suprisingly touching and the dialogue is intelligent. The discussion between the girls, natives and scientists is very insightful and lends much to the film's narration. .

The "small women" are strangely haunting. While the movie is great fun for a rainy Saturday with young family members, on a late night in the dark, on first viewing, this movie is certainly the most prophetic and insightful of the Godzilla series.

Mothra attempts to defeat Godzilla to protect its offspring and fails in the end. Warming the egg after it's death, the egg hatches with twin larvae that avenge it's parent's death .

While future Toho movies centered around more action, destruction and explosions, which is all great fun, this is likely the only one of the series that, taken in context, is memorable and leaves afterthoughts.

If you choose one Godzilla movie to own, this is definately the one to get. Stands up to repeated viewing and while there are no wrestling matches as in later 70s entries, and miniatures are obviously miniatures, the film holds up to it's name with a great story, haunting music, great effects and an open ended conclusion to allow fun but inferior movies to come.

Highly recommended!!!