Godzilla against Mechagodzilla

27) GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA – NEW GENERATION SERIES 2002-2004. You might get the impression that they are recycling ideas from episodes from 1974 and 1993, but that’s not quite true. This episode is actually kind of innovative in its approach to the franchise as a whole. Godzilla is referred to for the first time as "the next Godzilla", the first being the one that was killed by the oxygen destroyer in the first 1954 film, with the current one being its successor. The previous films seem to have been erased because there is clearly talk of a "second Godzilla attack on Japan" and the myriad of other attacks in the previous instalments are completely ignored. The government's defence project Mechagodzilla is referred to as 'Kiryu', and consists of a robotic skeleton and biological material made of computers powered by Godzilla DNA (a fact that plays a crucial role when Kiryu disobeys because of the biological components). Kiryu is equipped with a powerful weapon, the Absolute-Zero Gun, which fires a beam that destroys the opponent's atoms freezing them at a temperature of -273 C. Otherwise everything remains the same. The emotions are clumsily projected through the dilemmas of a scientist's daughter and the sparse tension through the pilot Akane and her manual control of Mechagodzilla. The fights themselves are a little shabby, but whatever. (29.07.2010)

However, the film "Gojira X Mekagojira", also known as "Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla", is actually more of a simplistic action movie, where the focus is not really on ideas, but simply on creating another environment for the monsters to fight each other. And that simply has to be enough. The human characters are fairly decent but forgettable, and the battle is definitely the highlight. (23.08.2015)