Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II

Infobox Film
name = Godzilla VS Mechagodzilla


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director = Takao Okawara
producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka
Shogo Tomiyama
writer = Wataru Mimura
starring = Masahiro Takashima
Ryoko Sano
Megumi Odaka
Shelley Sweeney
music = Akira Ifukube
cinematography = Yoshinori Sekiguchi
editing = Miho Yoneda
distributor = Toho
released = December 11, 1993
runtime = 108 min.
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:184732
imdb_id = 0107027
preceded_by = "Godzilla vs. Mothra"
followed_by = "Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla"

"Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II", released in Japan as Nihongo|"Godzilla VS Mechagodzilla"|ゴジラVSメカゴジラ|Gojira Tai Mekagojira, is a 1993 film, it is the 20th installment in the Toho studio's Godzilla series, it was directed by Takao Okawara with special effects by Koichi Kawakita. It was written by Wataru Mimura.

Plot

In 1992 a few months after Godzilla battled and defeated Mothra and Battra, the JSDF lifts the remains of Mecha-King Ghidorah from the ocean. Using the armor and robotic technology that the Futurians gave them they create Mechagodzilla, a super weapon to finally kill Godzilla.

On a mission to an island in the Pacific, a Japanese team comes across a dinosaur egg. They take the egg which somehow attracts Godzilla and Rodan, both fighting ferociously with Godzilla nearly killing Rodan with his atomic breath. The egg is taken back to Japan where it hatches into Baby Godzilla. Godzilla appears in Kyoto to rescue his son, but Mechagodzilla battles Godzilla, getting the King to the ground, and nearly victory. Suddenly Godzilla does his nuclear reverse which shuts down MechaGodzilla's systems. Godzilla angrily shoves MechaGodzilla aside but completely disregards his doppleganger and continues searching for his son, though he is hidden by the main human characters in a room that blocks off his psychic mind waves. Godzilla gives up and returns to his ocean home, but not before laying waste to everything in his way in frustration.

Tests on Baby Godzilla reveal that he has a second brain in his hips that control his legs and tail. The JSDF assume that Godzilla has a similar body-structure. They decide to use Baby Godzilla to bait Godzilla to them and use the G-Crusher, a system designed to destroy Godzilla's second brain, on the mutant dinosaur. Instead Rodan, now more powerful, with red scaly skin, and having a uranium atomic breath which he got as a result of being exposed to Godzilla's own atomic breath, is attracted to the bait as well and fights the JSDF attack aircraft Garuda and defeats it. He turns his attention to Mechagodzilla and attacks, losing horribly, being no match to the super weapon though he does disable MechaGodzilla's right eye laser cannon. Godzilla then shows up and starts to battle Mechagodzilla. Mechagodzilla combines with Garuda and turns into Super-Mechagodzilla and uses the G-Crusher on Godzilla. Godzilla is paralysed, but is revived when Rodan sacrifices himself and transfers his remaining life energy to Godzilla. Godzilla uses his newly aquired Red Spiral Atomic Breath to destroy Super-Mechagodzilla. Godzilla then finds his son, Baby Godzilla and they both swim off into the ocean to find a new home.

Trivia

* The original ending for "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II" was that Mechagodzilla killed Godzilla, therefore ending the VS series. But, Godzilla transfers his energy to Baby Godzilla who grows into an adult Godzilla. This new Godzilla would be used in Tristar's version but Sony decided that they wanted to make a standalone film of their own. Instead, the scenario was used two years later in "Godzilla vs. Destoroyah".

*Ishiro Honda was slated to direct the film, but died in early 1993.

* Another ending considered is that Godzilla is killed by Mechagodzilla, but not before damaging the ship Garuda. The nuclear engine inside irradiates Godzilla, giving him new strength to defeat his mechanical clone.

* In the release of the international dub of the movie they referred to Rodan by his Japanese name, Radon.
*The film's score is actually Mechani-Kong's theme from the 1967 film "King Kong Escapes".

Box Office

The film sold approximately 3,800,000 tickets in Japan, and made approximately 38,000,000 US dollars in Europe.

DVD Releases

"Columbia TriStar"
* Released: February 8, 2005
* Aspect Ratio: Widescreen (1.78:1) anamorphic
* Sound: Japanese (2.0), English (2.0)
* Supplements: Trailers for ', "MirrorMask", ', and "Steamboy"
* Note: The subtitles for the Japanese track are really 'dubtitles' (the subtitles are actually the captions for the English track)
*MPAA Rating: PG for sci-fi monster violence and some language

External links

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*imdb title|id=0107027|title=Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
*amg movie|id=1:184732|title=Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
*rotten-tomatoes|id=godzilla_vs_mechagodzilla_ii|title=Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II