This is the fourth Godzilla movie in the series and it is the second straight following "King Kong Vs. Godzilla" that takes a decidedly silly turn. Looking for deep meaning in any Godzilla flick is ridiculous to begin with but this movie cements Godzilla's descent (or ascent if you choose) into the absurd. The big guy shares top billing with Mothra here, but as with King Kong, he is practically a special guest star and not the headliner. When Godzilla is on screen, he's a floppy-jawed klutz. In one scene, he gets his tail caught in a radio tower, pulls it down, and knocks himself over with it. Shortly thereafter, he misses a step and falls face first into Himeji Castle. He's not exactly the atomic-born demon found in the original "Gojira", he's actually more like Curly Howard. To make matters worse, he survives a five minute fight with a big moth, a big moth who just happens to be near death according to two annoying twins that follow her around. Then the mighty Godzilla is dismissed in short order by a couple of caterpillars. Its sad, really. As usual, there are some miniature effects that are totally impressive and some nice shots of Godzilla towering over the hills of the surrounding countryside.

Ranked: Godzilla, the King of the Monsters "Not all all. It's a fair price. Regular chicken eggs cost eight yen wholesale. I figured this egg was equal to 153,820 eggs. Multiply that by eight." This is the one from the Shōwa era were things are getting silly. They leave in a take were the actor (Haruo Nakajima) inside the Godzilla suits gets the tail of the suit stuck and when he gets it out he trips and falls down, face first into a building. I just adore that they left this take in. The actor inside the suit als got away with something much worse when the head of the suit is one fire. THEY EVEN LEFT THAT IN! Everything for a good shot of the King of Monsters! Haruo Nakajima really got lucky with that incident. Anyway, this is also the one were we found out how indestructible Godzilla is. Nothing works. They throw everything at him. Mankind just can't hurt the big guy. But luckily for us humans we got Mothra and her kids here! They beat the crap out of Godzilla and the Mothra kids go haywire with the string shot attack. Fun stuff. On the human side of things we have evil business men, kids in trouble, the Mothra fairies, reporters and a lot of people running away. But despite the sillyness the Human side in this Godzilla film is fun. I really enjoy it. Mothra vs. Godzilla is on of the better Godzilla films from the Shōwa era and well worth a watch.

Mothra vs Godzilla is, after the original, one of my absolute favourites of the Showa Era Godzilla films. A Heart warming story, where the greedy bastards get what they had coming, two tiny fairy women with haunting singing, and of course a battle between the giant lizard and the moth...and the moth's babies. What's not to love?!?

It's Alright. Looking for any deep meaning in this movie is ridiculous. We all enjoyed the first Godzilla film and its nuclear symbolism, which is great, but here we came to see monsters beating the crap out of each other in the middle of society. Once you get past that barrier, this movie has plenty of enjoyment to offer. The special effects and miniatures are incredible; there are moments that look so good I couldn’t even define the scale of the action — whether they were miniatures, models, or simply full scale. That said, yes, Godzilla is pretty goofy in this movie, and he’s just a simple tool of destruction to move the plot forward (I understand that from now on this changes and he’s given more depth, we’ll see what the next films bring us). All that being said... Yeah, it’s an entertaining and well-made movie. What more does one need sometimes, right?

You can tell the movies are starting to get sillier and sillier, but this one at least had a good vs evil story. The action was also solid.