Godzilla - duel of the megasaurs
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| German title | Godzilla - duel of the megasaurs | ||
| Original title | Gojira tai Kingu Ghidora | ||
| Country of production | Japan | ||
| original language | Japanese | ||
| Publishing year | 1991 | ||
| length | 103 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK Unknown | ||
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| Director | Kazuki Omori | ||
| script | Kazuki Omori | ||
| production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | ||
| music | Akira Ifukube | ||
| camera | Yoshinori Sekiguchi | ||
| cut | Michiko Ikeda | ||
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Godzilla - Duel of the Megasaurs ( Japanese ゴ ジ ラ vs キ ン グ ギ ド ラ , Gojira tai Kingu Ghidora ) is a monster film ( Kaijū Eiga) by the Japanese Tōhō Studios from 1991. In this 18th Godzilla film, as before with Godzilla, the original giant was directed by the Japanese Kazuki Omori director.
The film was a huge hit in Japan and grossed about $ 11 million. He also received a special award for special effects at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1992 . The film opened in German cinemas on January 7, 1993.
action
In 1992 an unidentified flying object suddenly appeared over Japan . The authorities quickly assume that it is a spaceship. But it is not a spaceship, but a time machine from the year 2204. The occupants of the aircraft, who call it "mother", have one goal: to travel to 1944 and teleport a dinosaur on the island of Ragos to another place without nuclear radiation. because the dinosaur becomes Godzilla through the later American atomic tests. The team consists of the author Kenichiro Terasawa, a paleontologist, the telepathic girl Miki Saegusa, the futurist Emi Kano and the android M11.
The Japanese troops stationed there have no chance against the Americans, who are quickly fighting their way into the interior of the island. But at the last second, a huge creature emerges from the forest to protect its island - a dinosaur. The Americans who have come ashore have no chance against the animal, but as it approaches the beach, it is shot at with a huge cannonade from the American warships. Injured, it retreats into the forest. Assuming that the dinosaur is dead, the Japanese troops hold an appeal, thinking that the animal has protected them.
The team then teleports the allegedly dead dinosaur into the Bering Sea. But the problem arises that instead of Godzilla, King Ghidorah is now destroying the Japanese cities. Emi immediately realizes that this is a sinister plan by the other future travelers to rule Japan according to their wishes.
But because nuclear energy can now be found almost everywhere in the world, Godzilla has come back to life. The future people immediately send King Ghidorah to Godzilla to fight him, but Godzilla defeats King Ghidorah and with him the future people. Now the Japanese have got rid of King Ghidorah, but it doesn't take long before Godzilla has destroyed Sapporo .
Emi has a plan: She travels into the future to use her technique to make King Ghidorah ready for battle again. Returning in the past, she now fights Godzilla with Mecha-King Ghidorah. After a tough fight, Emi finally wins over Godzilla by flying him towards the sea with King Ghidorah and crashing him there with Ghidorah. And Emi can travel back to the future with peace of mind.
At the end of the film, however, you can see that Godzilla survived the crash.
background
Scheduled for the 50th birthday of the Tōhō studios, the original concept for the film was similar to that for the film The Return of King Kong (1962), in which Godzilla competes against King Kong . The estimated costs for the implementation of the King Kong character turned out to be too expensive at around nine million US dollars, so Tōhō Godzilla wanted to compete against Mechani-Kong, the character against which King Kong in King Kong - Frankenstein's son (1967) fights. After the production company Turner Entertainment complained that Mechani-Kong and King Kong were too similar, Tōhō instead revived Godzilla's opponent King Ghidorah.
reception
The budget for this film was $ 2.7 million, and grossing was around $ 11 million.
controversy
Godzilla - Duel of the Megasaurs became one of the most controversial films in the Godzilla franchise . Shortly after the film was released in Japan, a lengthy documentary by a US news channel attributed anti-American sentiments to the film . Above all, scenes were criticized in which US soldiers are killed by Godzilla. It was also debated that hostile, western people come from the future. Director Kazuki Omori defended his film by arguing that the film was not intended to instill anti-American sentiment. The economic tensions between East and West were at a high level at the time, so that this dispute found additional breeding ground.
Reviews
The film received very mixed reviews , with critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website rating the film 56 percent positive. The film achieved a better result with the audience, where 64 percent thought the film was good.
"With hair-raising inconsistencies in the plot and nationalistic undertones, the naive battle spectacle spreads predominantly boredom and lacks the naive charm of earlier 'Godzilla' films."
"One of the best Godzillas."
Web links
- Godzilla - Duel of the Megasaurs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Godzilla - Duel of the Megasaurs in the online movie database
- Godzilla - Duel of the megasaurs at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b “Facts worth knowing” about the film, imdb.com , accessed on June 17, 2008
- ↑ Godzilla - Duel of the Megasaurs. Retrieved July 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (Gojira tai Kingu Gidorâ) (1991). Retrieved August 7, 2019 .
- ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films , 2000/2001 edition, CD-ROM version
- ↑ Godzilla - Duel der Megasaurier in the online offer of Cinema , accessed on June 17, 2008