How sad is this?

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)** 1/2 (out of 4) A UFO lands in Tokyo and it turns out that time travelers are on board. They've traveled back in time to warn Japan that their country is going to be reduced to rubble. One is due to pollution but the big issue is that Godzilla is going to be coming back and he isn't their friend.GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH is obviously going to appeal to those die hard fans of the big G. But how does your average fan going to take it? I think for the most part it's an entertaining movie but there's no question that there are some flaws in it including keeping the big guy off camera for so long. It takes thirty-minutes for a dinosaur to briefly appear, fifty-minutes for King Ghidorah to appear and Godzilla doesn't show up until the hour mark.Obviously there's a lot of stuff going on here and some of it is campy enough to where it could hold its head right up there with some of the sillier entries from the 70s. I mean, there's one man who is a robot and the scenes of him running fast through the streets are really bad. The effects are extremely cheap and laughable and they bring the film down a notch. I'd also argue that the WWII footage was also poorly done and looked incredibly cheap. With that said, the Godzilla costume looks pretty darn good and I thought it was realistic enough for the film. The King Ghidorah was also good looking, although not quite as good as Godzilla.I actually thought the story itself was fairly good and the use of the time travelers actually paid off very well. The biggest problem with the film is the fact that it clocks in at 100-minutes and there are way too many moments where there aren't any monsters on the screen and the dialogue and story aren't good enough to make up for that. Once the final battle starts to happen we're treated to the action and destruction that fans have come to love but it's a long way getting there.

During the Hesei era, "Good Godzilla Movies" were clearly not synonymous with "Successful Godzilla Movies". Godzilla vs. Biollante" is nowadays considered one of the best Godzilla movies, period (and rightly so, but it was a box office failure and at the time was poorly received. So Toho decied that their best bet was to, from there on out, bring back some of their most revered older monsters. And the result was honestly quite mixed. This was their first attempt, and while it has its moments, for the most part Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is mostly a sloppy mish-mash of confusing subplots and time travel that gets in the way The film has some interesting ideas but sadly squanders all of them. Much of the first half of the movie follows a group of time travelers who plan on re-creating Ghidorah and replacing Godzilla with it. They lure a washed-up author and his friend into going back to 1944, finding the dinosaur who became Godzilla, and bury it, taking three mini-Ghidorahs and placing them in the forest so they can experience the same radiation exposure that Godzilla experienced. Problem is, the time travelers are completely boring characters and so is the film's central writer. Exactly why they want to revive Ghidorah is never made exactly clear either. When Godzilla shows up an hour into the movie, it's much welcomed and the titular fight takes place about ten minutes later However, in a move only the writers (or lack of) would know of, after defeating Ghidorah, Godzilla becomes the main threat. The city's excuse? "Look at how big that thing is! It is going to destroy the city!" but even worse than this is when Godzilla rips off Ghidorah's head (???), an out of character move. And when Ghidorah gets revived, it's used to defeat Godzilla. Yeah, that goes over as well as you'd expect, which is to say not at all There's also some unmissably dumb dialogue and some random Terminator ripoff plot. But easily the worst thing about this film is that it's boring. Even when the titular fight comes it isn't worth the wait. Godzilla has never been known for having amazing characters but even then the characters here are boring and Ami comes off as overly Mary Sue-ish. As awesome as Ghidorah was, it was a one time deal and let's hope that should Toho choose to allow Warner Bros the rights to the classic monsters for the upcoming sequel to the 2014, that Ghidorah isn't used.

Godzilla and time travel fumble around with each other in an enjoyable but confusing entry. It mostly confuses because the time travel plot doesn't make much sense. Why do the aliens just move Godzilla? Who knows. It's great to see a bit more origin, even if it doesn't all add up. There are some excellent comedic scenes, aided by some hammy acting. The scene with a Mr. Spielberg is a great laugh out loud moment. The war scenes are a little something new, and the anti Americanism has been blown out of proportion. One of the characters even says that the dinosaur was just protecting its island. Ghidorah soon makes an appearance, and there's even more fun to be had with Mecha-Ghidorah. This was a jump back into the cheesiness of earlier films, but after the undeserved failure of the previous installment, that was to be expected.

Now this is a true classic. For years, Godzilla has battled his archenemy King Ghidorah for Earth's survival. In the past, the King of the Monsters required help from other creatures in order to defeat the three-headed tyrant, but this time he will fight alone for the first time in a battle that shakes the foundations of time.When a mysterious UFO appears, the military goes in to investigate. Out comes people from the future who warn Japan of an incoming doom caused by Godzilla. With Japan's permission, they set out to try and erase Godzilla from history by using time travel to prevent his mutation by the atomic bomb. However, not all is as it seems. The warning they gave was a load of crap. They wanted to get rid of Godzilla so that their monster King Ghidorah can destroy Japan. Luck is on Japan's side as Godzilla is reborn and heads off to destroy his three-headed nemesis once and for all.The story is rather intriguing and it's cool that they explain Godzilla's origin a little more. Seeing the King of the Monsters before he got mutated is a true pleasure. The action scenes are a must-see. Building's getting smashed and Godzilla and Ghidorah beating each other to a pulp are what it's all about. The use of music is great, ranging from slow and mysterious to action-packed and menacing. There's also a nice little joke about Steven Spielberg somewhere in the middle of the film.I do have a few problems with this installment of the series. Some of the dialogue is pretty crappy, corny lines and over-the-top voices throughout the film. There are also a few dumb moments and a bit of a plot hole with the whole time traveling thing.Nonetheless, this is still a worthy edition for the series. With great action, story, music, effects, and a few touching moments, Godzilla vs King Ghidorah is a true Godzilla classic. All hail the King of the Monsters.