Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

in an article on back row i said i hope that every franchise eventually blows itself up into outer space, and i'm glad to say that godzilla & friends only needed a handful of sequels to work up to that. while they're not exactly there yet, this one really upped the ante with its inter-dimensional lightning-spewing three-headed dragon vs every rubber suit they had hanging in the closet. i love how rodan & godzilla are just flailing around at each other in the background of the movie until mothra's all "don't do that!". i mean up until this point godzilla was the bad guy, and he makes his read more

we are now fully into the no-subtext kaiju battle phase of the series. there's a whole four kaiju battling in this one and one of them is mothra so that's a plus. standard godzilla checklist: fuck about with human story for ages - quite a bit but it makes sense with this being the first time godzilla fights for the people introduce monster 1 - rodan more human shite - yup. lots of human shite. bring in the other monster(s) - the titular ghidorah humans interact with the monster(s) - barely at all, they basically just send mothra finally the monsters clash - several clashes before the grand... read more