Director: Takao Okawara
Starring: Tetsuya Bessho, Satomi Kobyashi
Genre: Kaiju (monster)
Year: 1992
Release: HK Universe
Since the series has been rebooted, we need a new Mothra now. None too-dissimilar from the origins of the original, due to deforestation, a storm, caused by a comet hitting the earth, caused a huge landslide on remote pacific island, Infant Island. This exposes a giant egg. The company that owns said island, decides to bring it to Japan, as an attraction, and blackmails an Indiana-Jones ripoff archaeologist (In jail in Thailand, for indy-type pillaging) to bring it back. Also along for the ride, is some doris, who happens to be his ex-wife, co-incindently. The comet also woke up Godzilla, and Battra, a kind of evil Mothra. Handily, the Cosmos twins are on hand, to explain all this, and look devilishly cute in their little pink dresses. The egg is being towed across the sea, when 'zilla appears, egg hatches, and there's a quick fight with larvae state mothra. The upshot of all this is, Mothra and Battra have a fight, Godzilla shows up, in order to save earth from him, the 2 flyers team up, and, with the aid of a ferris wheel, fuck g-man back into the sea, from whence he came. Battra gets wasted in the process, but it turns out that he was waiting to save earth from a giant comet that is going to hit, so Mothra heads off to do it.
A good one this, there's a mix of kids stuff, and more adult-orientated stuff going on here. Mothra is, as ever, the good guy, the only one I can think of who's never been a baddy (heel?). Battra is unclear, as he fights Mothra. G-Man is himself, and fights everything. Some nice visuals going on here too. All in, well worth it.
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