(1964)
A meteor crashes to earth and shortly after, a strange magnetic force causes it to acquire mass and throb. Elsewhere, an assassination attempt is made on a princess visiting from some distant province, allowing the soul of a long dead Martian to take over her body.
The Martian princess pops up around Japan prophesying calamities, such as the rising of Rodan and the coming of Godzilla, and of a new monster, Ghidorah.
Godzilla and Rodan duke it out, causing a considerable amount of panic and destruction. However, the titular character comes late to his own party. He makes a grand entrance though, all fiery and two heads short of Tiamat. People are terrified and rightly, so.
Meanwhile, there are some side stories that are really too boring to discuss. One involves the twin fairies from Infant Island, who get the new Mothra to come have a talk with Godzilla and Rodan. Seriously, the giant caterpillar tries to get Rodan and Godzilla to fight Ghidorah on behalf of humanity. They say no. Emphatically. However, they do come to the rescue when Mothra (unsuccessfully) tries to go it alone.
Rodan (who sounds like a Boeing 747 in flight), Godzilla and Mothra triple team Ghidorah and send him limping (well, flying) off with both tails between his legs. The Princess recovers. The fairies go home. The end.
This movie was so boring it took me around 4 nights to watch. Really, the last 15 minutes were all that was worth seeing - even a few of those could've been trimmed. Some of the fight scenes were comical - like Godzilla getting blasted in the butt and the privates (does he even have privates?) - but that was it.
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