Product Details

• Actors: Megumi Odaka, Akira Takarada, Takehiro Murata, Saburo Shinoda, Akiji Kobayashi
• Directors: Kazuki Omori, Takao Okawara
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Color, Closed-captioned
• Language: English (Unknown)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 3, 1998
• Run Time: 205 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767825489
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,158 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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That's right, they didn't stop making Gozilla films in the mid-'70s like you thought, but resurrected the rubberized reptile in the mid-'80s and have continued making crazy, clear-your-Saturday-afternoon-schedule offerings to this very day. And here in this double-feature disc are two of the craziest from the early '90s.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidora involves some western folks in a flying saucer from the future who come back to warn Japan of its imminent demise by Godzilla. But their real aim is to aid in that destruction, thus keeping Japan from becoming an economic powerhouse. Along the way, some cute little creatures they've brought with them are transformed into King Ghidora, the not-so-cute nemesis of Godzilla, and the two inevitably battle it out as unwitting champions of their times. The special effects are tops, the action is silly and pulpish, and the plot is lifted partially from Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1968). If you don't watch this film with a silly grin on your face, you just aren't a Godzilla fan.

Godzilla and Mothra: The Battle for Earth is a variation on one of the best of the old Godzilla films, Godzilla vs. The Thing (1964). When a meteorite hits the Earth, Godzilla is awakened, along with Mothra and his evil twin Battra, the Black Mothra! Mothra must save the Earth from these scourges, with the help of its minions, the Cosmos, those twin miniature girls who sing the eerily beautiful Mothra theme from the earlier film. And the special effects are even more impressive and hallucinatory than before, if that's possible.

The pleasure of seeing these rarities on DVD is only slightly hampered by their truncated aspect ratios; yes, Mothra's widescreen wings have been clipped down to paltry pan and scan, and thus denuded of its native Tohoscope. --Jim Gay

Product Description

Two Godzilla films with Godzilla's well-known enemies.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 7-OCT-2003
Media Type: DVD

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two Fantastic Godzilla Movies, April 10, 2001

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Xam "mixed media man" (nyc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth (DVD)

I'm not a hard-core Godzilla fan, but i find them entertaining, so i picked up this DVD. Upon watching it, the one thing that really annoyed me was the lack of the widescreen option. I always like to have the original scope of the film. That is a main reason why i didn't give it 5 stars. The japanese soundtrack isn't available as an option. I prefer the english dubbing anyway, for comic effect at least. For those people who prefer the english subtitles that option should have been presented as well as the widescreen option. But I do really like the fact that you get two movies on this DVD, while costing the same as one normally does. And anyway these are two of my favorite Godzilla movies and they look good on this DVD. These two movies are both really cool: Mothra: Battle for Earth is really my favorite, the tiny twin women are fantastic! King Ghidora is very entertaining but not nearly as cool as Mothra. It's worth the money if you're a casual Godzilla fan like me, and don't mind the missing japanese soundtrack and widescreen options...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Four stars for the films, one for the DVD, January 4, 2010

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abettertomorrow - See all my reviews

This review is from: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth (DVD)

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah and its follow-up Godzilla vs. Mothra are easily two of the finest films in the series. Koichi Kawakita won a Japanese Academy Award in 1991 for his visual effects for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, and the following year, Godzilla vs. Mothra became one of the biggest financial hits in Toho's history, selling over four million tickets in Japan, a number that hadn't been reached since the early 60s. Unfortunately, neither film got a stateside release until Sony defecated out this horrendous DVD in 1998 to coincide with Roland Emmerich's even bigger defecation that same year.

Not only are both films sandwiched on one disc, but they're not even in widescreen, and neither of them come with the original Japanese audio with English subtitles. Instead, the viewer has to endure dubbing that is so jaw-droppingly awful that it's amazing Toho would ever allow their films to get this sort of treatment. It's inconceivable how bottom-of-the-barrel Godzilla films like Godzilla's Revenge and even Godzilla vs. Gigan have decent DVDs while these more elaborate films are stuck with cheap double feature DVDs.

Luckily, there are rumors of new DVDs of these films being made, so maybe it's best that fans of the series wait for the new issues, as they will most likely be in anamorphic widescreen with the original Japanese audio. Until then I'd recommend hunting down subtitled DVDs and even VHS's from online distributors instead of settling for this Sony DVD.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome! Finally a '90's Godzilla!, May 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth (DVD)

Ever since I saw the original 50's Godzilla, I had always wondered how it had evolved in the 90's. Now I know. It's plain awesome! A bigger Godzilla with even bigger special effects. I love it!