Rating: PG
Genre:
Science Fiction
Release Date: 02/08/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Japanese/English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
The seventh film in
Toho's
Godzilla series (and the first without the direction of
Inoshiro Honda), this colorful installment finds the natives of a volcanic island enslaved by the armies of an unnamed country claiming to be in control of a giant crustacean named
Ebirah. A boatload of teens and a wanted criminal are washed ashore on the same island, where they encounter a large group of escaped slaves who hail from Mothra Island, home of another popular
Toho monster. They pray to their moth-god to liberate them, oblivious to the fact that a certain green lizard is trapped beneath their cavern hideout. The teens soon discover this and release
Godzilla from the rock with a well-placed lightning rod. Released and re-energized,
Godzilla soon goes head-to-head with
Ebirah, while
Mothra eventually flaps into action to free the captives. Silly and cartoonish despite some more menacing elements, this is nevertheless one of the more interesting chapters in the
Godzilla pantheon.
~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
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