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1995-12-09 15:16:07 Godzilla vs. DestoroyahConsidering it took almost a year for me to do the reviews on the Showa series, i can't believe that i'm already reviewing the final Godzilla film of the Heisei era just a couple of weeks later. A paltry seven films! Ha! Of course for most film franchises that is a more than respectable number. The reason this was meant to be the last Godzilla film (again) is because the the rights to Godzilla had been given to TriStar Pictures, who would make the film that eventually came out in 1998. Toho decided to end the current Godzilla series with the death of Godzilla, allowing a clean start for the TriStar films (yes, it was meant to be at least a trilogy). And when the American film turned out to be a disaster, Toho started up again with the Millennium series. In the meantime, Toho contented itself with Mothra films aimed at a younger demographic. So this story shows the death of Godzilla. Throughout the Heisei films it's been the case that the movies are actual sequels, much more so than is the case in other eras. So it's nice that Toho was able to plan ahead and provide closure. Although i think Min and i would both prefer that Godzilla not die! The movie is unfortunately kind of a narrative mess, with some odd choices being made in the beginning and some last minute editing at the end. The movie begins with Miki in a helicopter apparently (it's not clear, at least in our dubbed version) searching for the island where Baby was being kept. The island, again, apparently, was destroyed by a spontaneous volcanic eruption that also spewed out a lot of radioactive uranium. Off camera. The Earth is out to get you. You know, they use helicopters a lot in Heisei. Did someone get a deal on helicopters? Godzilla Sr. surfaces in Hong Kong (the year is said to be 1996), but he's glowing red, breathing red fire, and going on an even more mindless angry rampage than usual. Godzilla is so hot he's even steaming up the ocean as he walks through it. A Godzilla Summit Meeting is called. On video conference is Meru Ozawa, who has been working the the US Godzilla Watch. She's played by Sayaka Osawa, who has played one of the Mothra Cosmos in previous films. Also at the conference is Professor Fukuzawa, a character that also appeared in Godzilla vs. Mothra. He plays a larger role in this movie than the last one. Professor Fukuzawa's role in this movie is really just to go pick up the true science genius for the film, namely "some kid who put a thesis about Godzilla on the internet". The kid is Kenichi Yamane (played by Yasufumi Hayashi), and he's actually got some significant pedigree. He's the son of the kid that Dr. Yamane adopted after his island was destroyed by Godzilla in the original film. His theory is that Godzilla's power source, the equivalent of a heart in a man, is a nuclear reactor. I actually didn't think that was in contention at this point, but when Kenichi tried to submit the theory to G Center, it was ignored, so he instead sent it to the US Godzilla Watch group and just put it up on the internet. Because of that, Professor Fukuzawa is unable to convince Kenichi to come with him back to G Center until Kenichi hears that Miki is there. He's got a little shrine to Miki on the wall in his room, so he clearly has a crush on her. It is a creepy, stalker shrine. Kenichi's sister is also pretty important. She's Yukari Yamane (played by Yoko Ishino), a reporter. That is the comic relief business lackey from Godzilla vs. Mothra on the left, playing a different, and minor, character here (he's Takehiro Murata, playing Yukari's editor). Yukari's important to the film because she's interviewing a Dr. Kensaku Ijuin (played by Takuro Tatsumi), a scientist that has developed a process for the micronization of oxygen. Uh oh. He intends to use it to construct smaller tanks for divers and feed it to fish to make them bigger. Yukari is more interested in getting him to admit that the process also has military applications, and Dr. Ijuin concedes that the process could be used in making weapons since its tiny atoms can penetrate any metal. Yukari and Kenichi live with their "aunt", the daughter of Dr. Yamane, Emiko. She's played by Momoko Kochi, the actress from the original film. They've even got Dr. Yamane's office set up exactly the way he left it, with the model stegosaurus. Well, not exactly. Emiko has added a picture of Dr. Serizawa. No pictures of her actual husband. Emiko immediately notes the similarities between Dr. Ijuin's oxygen micronization and the invention of her one time fiancee, Dr. Serizawa: the oxygen destroyer. The movie plays a flashback from the original Godzilla movie demonstrating that process. It's one of two such flashbacks, adding to the sense that this movie is part of the legacy of the original as the Heisei series comes to an end. When Yukari presses Dr. Ijuin on that point, noting that Dr. Serizawa destroyed his notes and killed himself to prevent anyone else from learning the process, Ijuin says, "We can't allow sentimentalism to get in the way of scientific knowledge". So she punched him in the mouth. Around this time, engineers building a tunnel (i think?) find strata that doesn't look right, and then they start having electrical equipment meltdowns. Meanwhile, Miki is despondent because she can't locate Baby. You guys are terrible at keeping track of your radioactive monsters. Kenichi tells her that Godzilla took power from the nuclear blast that destroyed "Birth Island", "but maybe the others didn't survive it". Others? Plural? This is similar to the comment made at the end of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II. Who are these "others?". Why didn't we see them on the island in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla? Is this a wink that Birth Island is really Monster Island, and Anguirus and all our other buddies have been there hanging out with Godzilla but the Heisei period is too serious to show it? Or is it just a bad translation in our dub? Godzilla shows up in Taiwan next. Eh, buddy, you don't look so good. Mebbe you should lay down, take a couple of aspirin? It's only fair that Godzilla show up somewhere besides Japan, but it's interesting to see Godzilla attack two Chinese (so to speak) cities. The theory is that there is too much nuclear fission in Godzilla's body. The Birth Island incident has increased the rate of fission in his nuclear reactor of a heart, and he'll continue to increase in power and then explode, with more force than "all nuclear weapons put together". We're shown a simulation of Godzilla exploding to hammer that home. Another repeat character is Commander Takaki Aso (played by Akira Nakao). He's as nervous looking as always in the face of impending Godzilla. It comes out that the place where the engineers are having problem with the strata is the exact place where the first Godzilla was killed 40 years ago. And that Dr. Ijuin took samples from that strata to develop his microoxygen. The strata was from the Precambrian era, at a time when there was no oxygen. I'm not sure how the site of Godzilla's original death is now underground instead of underwater. Was a tunnel being built beneath Tokyo bay circa 1995? More importantly, don't think that you've slipped past us the fact that it was said to be the first Godzilla. The first Heisei movie was called the *Return* of Godzilla, not Here Comes Another Godzilla. And Raymond Burr made it even clearer, saying that the body of the original was never found. Then of course in Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah they went back in time to prevent Godzilla from being affected by the nuclear test that mutated him from a "regular" dinosaur (or at least they tried). Are you telling me that was really all about the second Godzilla? In the Showa series, Godzilla Raids Again is very upfront about the Godzilla from that point onward being a new one. But we thought that in the Heisei series it was the original Godzilla all the way. That's why the Showa Godzilla quickly becomes a good guy but in Heisei he remains nasty throughout the run. Right? Wrong, apparently. Here's the thing about continuity - if you're going to try to build on previous stuff, you need to keep your continuity straight. If you don't want to be too strict about continuity, then stop bringing up shit that happened in previous movies. You can't cherry pick which bits of a previous story you are going to keep and which you're going to ignore. All or nothing. Have i mentioned lately that this is a dubbed movie, and that dubbed movies are terrible? Not only is the dialogue just awful, but you often feel like you're missing something. Like things would make a lot more sense if they would stop talking nonsense and start giving us all the information. Anyway, moving on with the plot, it turns out that something has escaped from Dr. Ijuin's lab, and the next thing you know all the fish in an aquarium are getting their flesh seared off, just like scenes that were just played of the original oxygen destroyer. Our entire cast plus all of their friends and relatives show up to watch the replay. On the smallest monitor they could find. You ever watch a police procedural like Law & Order where they see some blurry image in the background of some security footage, and the cop says to the tech guy, "Hey, can you blow that up?" and the tech guy does and then the cop says, "Sharpen it" and the tech guy does that too, all while you're sitting at home going, "No! That's not possible! You can't just 'sharpen' a random blurry image!"? Well, they go a step further in this movie, finding a tiny speck in the fish footage and transforming into a 3-D model. This thing is identified as a Precambrian life form, mutated 40 years ago by oxygen destroyer, which has since been evolving abnormally. Meanwhile, the army is tracking Godzilla. Ok. I think that boat is A LITTLE too close to Godzilla. The army also gets reports of whale carcases turning up, and Baby is suspected, with the Birth Island incident perhaps having "changed what was inside of him" (he was supposed to be a vegetarian, after all!). Miki renews her search for him. And the next thing we know, a monster is performing random acts of sabotage, like blowing up a bridge. It turns out there are in fact "several" of these creatures, which are described as being ten feet in height and "reptile-like". Several 10ft tall reptile monsters snuck up on you? Are they in stealth mode? Do people in Japan just go home and go to bed when the sun sets? Cause that's the only way the police aren't being inundated with a million calls from people on the street. "Hello? Police? I just saw a bunch of giant lizard things running through a bridge." The police are sent out to stop them, and they chase them to the warehouse district and through a building. And, ok, do we have to see the SWAT team running down every corridor? I mean, we're talking a good amount of time devoted to guys with guns running down hallways. Enough already! Finally, the monsters. Yeah. You seem stealthy. I can see why it was so difficult for anyone to spot you. With the scuttling around and the long ridged tails, the scenes have an Aliens-like vibe. But the creatures also have electric blasts... Of course they do. ...and some kind of beam weapon that generate a blue sphere on a victim's chest before causing them to float up in the air and fly through windows. Seems like a gravity beam of some kind. I feel that we've moved very far from its original oxygen destroyer power. I'm a little unclear on how, when you take a creature that didn't live in oxygen to begin with, and then apply oxygen destroyer to it, it grows in size and becomes an oxygen breathing giant monster. Two negatives make a positive, i guess. Didn't you see the flashback scenes with the fish getting dissolved? I think it's pretty obvious what happened. If you were a scientist, you'd understand. Whatever the things are, they prove vulnerable to rocket launchers, but not much else. As usual, the media is very blase about the announcement of monsters attacking the warehouse district. The difference is that this time it's announced on Sony Watchmans. The situation has become like a siege, and the troops remain there for the long haul. They try to clear out the press but the reporters refuse to leave. Dr. Ijuin seems to have figured something out, and he runs up to the soldiers. Then the monsters break out of the warehouse and swarm all over the area, attacking the reporters. They told you assholes to clear the area! Yukari runs away with the rest of the group, but she's the only one to trip and land in a giant puddle. So Yukari gets separated from the group. Dr. Ijuin chases after her, navigating past the monsters. Physicist, Action Hero! Eventually director Takao Okawara lets the camera focus on the monsters too long, and they start to look a little less menacing and more silly. Yeah, that happened for me 20 minutes ago. Reporter Yukari Yamane has gotten herself trapped in that car, and that one creature spends a lot more time than you'd think was worth the effort trying to get at her. I mean, these things were blowing up bridges and blasting holes in walls a minute ago, so i don't know why the car is giving it so much trouble, but if it is that hard, just move on. It's too big to get her, so it's just going to crush her out of spite. Eventually it gets its head in the car. I mentioned the similarity to Aliens before? That was before i saw this. Normally when you see stuff this similar to another movie, it's because the original movie came out not long before. But in this case, the last Aliens movie was in 1992 (and wasn't a huge hit). Dr. Ijuin makes it into the scene and opens the door on the opposite end of the car. Yes, this way. Just walk out the other side. Zone Fighter says if you find yourself trapped in a car, you should also look for open windows. The soldiers show up and set the thing on fire. It seems to be melting, literally dripping away. Meanwhile, Godzilla is said to be going after a nuclear reactor. And guess what? The Super X is back! We are up to Super X-3 at this point. Remember the first movie when it was first mentioned, and then they showed a cargo plane and i thought that was the Super-X? Well, there's no mistake about it this time. Lame! It's just a plane! Does it turn into a robot? The Super X-3 is piloted by Kazuma Aoki (played by Akira Nakao), the guy that piloted Moguera's backpack (aka Garuda) in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II. The ship has been armed with cadmium missiles Ultra Low Temperature (ULT) laser guns. With those weapons, they are able to freeze Godzilla. Then they shoot cadmium shells into his mouth and he falls into the water. It's said that he'll remain frozen for 6 hours. Kenichi (the internet thesis kid) had been pushing hard the idea that the army would have to use oxygen destroyer to kill Godzilla before he melted down, but now he's suddenly confident that keeping him frozen will work. I mean, i guess it's good that he can change his mind when he's given new data, but with the certainty that he was pushing the oxygen destroyer idea as the only option, despite its dangers, it's a sudden reversal. Miki and Meru Ozawa start talking. Miki's ESP powers are fading. It turns out that Meru has ESP too, and she "can't wait for them to fade so she can have an ordinary life. With a husband and children". She's also completely fine with seeing Godzilla and even Baby killed. They are very different characters. Back away slowly, Miki. Speaking of Baby, he finally surfaces. But thanks to the radiation from the Birth Island eruption, he's now much, much bigger. But still not big enough for the Godzilla detectors to keep track of. As he terrorizes a group of beach-goers, Miki lands and happily says, "It's not a baby any more. It's an adult. See? Godzilla Jr. is here." He needed a little more of that radiation to hit his arms. They're freakishly skinny compared to the rest of him. Junior is said to be heading to the Bering Sea, which is said to be "his nest". If you knew that, why didn't you look for him there first? Meanwhile, Kenichi new-found confidence in the freeze ray turns out to have been premature, and Godzilla's temperature starts rising. It's said that he's currently 900 degrees (Celsius? Fahrenheit? Don't know.), rising 50 degrees a day. At 1200 degrees he'll meltdown, destroying the Earth in a "China syndrome". They basically show us the same footage of the theoretical explosion, in case we were up getting a drink the first time. The siege situation with the Precambrian creatures is still going on, but now they roll out the freeze ray FAHPs. Why not more flamethrowers? We've already seen they're weak to fire. The new weapons use Dr. Ijuin's microoxygen process in some way that i'm not clear on, but they're also using ULT like Super X-3. Sadly, they can't seem to hit the creatures, who are just swarming all over the place at this point. In some scenes the creatures don't seem to be animated at all, and instead are dragged back and forth across the set with strings. Min said it looked like soccer players on a foosball table. The soldiers seem to be making some progess, but then the creatures are said to be "assembling" and it's said that there's too much microoxygen. A computer screen says that the amount is "impossible to measure". All of the little (10 foot) monsters then scramble together and form a single giant monster, growing in size. Why does that happen? No one will say. Nothing in the descriptions of microoxygen, or anything in all the scenes of fish melting, warned about this. What's going on here? Wizards! Dr. Ijuin is equally confused. "I KNOW microoxygen, and it doesn't have that kind of power." So what does? Dr. Ijuin flubbed his science-splaining moment. He should have nodded knowingly and said,"I suspected this might happen.". The giant creature is named Destoroyah. Well, actually, in our dub, it's Destroyer. "An oxygen destroyer... it can destroy everything. It's power is that awesome! Destroyer!" Yeah, ok. Man, i think that name is even worse than SpaceGodzilla. The FAHPs and ULTs continue to blast at the creature... ...but it blasts them and flies away. I should note that in our dub, Godzilla is referred to as Godziller. So it's Godziller and Destroyer, or Godzilla and Destoroyah. We'll be calling the creature "Destoroyah", since that's it's official name and it's not like we call Godzilla "Godziller". Kenichi gets the idea to have Destoroyah fight Godzilla. That generates shock from the others in the G Center. "You mean get the Destroyer to fight Godzilla?!?" Dude... it's what you do every movie! Why are they listening to the kid with no degree and who got the cold ray thing wrong? The next question is how to get Destoroyah to fight Godzilla. The plan is to use Junior to lure Godzilla to an area where Destoroyah will go. As this is suggested, you can see Miki having a heart attack. But Meru tells her, "Don't be sentimental." (And then Miki punched her in the mouth.) In order for the plan to work, Junior has to be controlled telepathically. Meru tells Miki that she's going to do it alone if Miki won't help. They don't even consider leaving Junior out of it and talking directly to Godzilla. Miki seemed to do that in Godzilla vs. Biollante, and that's at least what was said was happening in vs. Mechagodzilla II. With the added power of Meru behind her, you'd think they'd give it a shot. Destoroyah, meanwhile, is flying around Tokyo. But these kids aren't too scared. The ESPers bring Junior to Tokyo. What do you think they told him to get him to come? "We have burgers!" Destoroyah rams Junior, and they start fighting. *nods* Natural enemies. When Destoroyah decides to go after the ESPers helicopter instead, Junior blasts Destoroyah down. Junior blast away at it, but Destoroyah seems to reform. That's cheating! So the battle continues. Junior gets blasted into a building and falls down... ...and then Destoroyah pounces on him and starts piercing him with its mouth. Dr. Ijuin, observing from Yukari's news chopper, says that "Destoroyah is sucking energy from Junior. He's inserting oxygen destroyer molecules into him." Those are two completely different things, and there's no way for Dr. Ijuin to know that. So that is definitely a scientist explaining everything. You know, oddly, i feel less confident about his scientific knowledge than i do those Showa scientists who used children's books as reference materials. Junior's mouth is foaming, meaning we are nearing the end. But Junior is able to use his breath weapon to blast Destoroyah's arms off and free himself, albeit with a hole in his chest. It's just a flesh wound. Yeah! That's it, Junior! Go down shooting!" Actually, and this is definitely unclear, it seems Destoroyah is temporarily defeated at this point. Godzilla, meanwhile, was being monitored, apparently from the Death Star. Looks more like the Satellite of Love. And soon daddy makes it to the scene. Godzilla's arrival makes it night time, apparently. Also, it seems like Godzilla's biceps are glued to his sides for this movie. All he can do is wobble his little hands around. There's a scene of Godzilla and Junior staring at each other from across an airport. Junior is much bigger than he was as Baby, but still smaller than Godzilla. Before father and son can interact, Destoroyah returns, "transformed". "That's the adult Destroyer. I've never seen anything so big." Oh my god! It's like Pokemon! The Super X-3 is deployed again, with much fanfare. Directors, it's not cool to make a big fussy deal of some ship being launched twice in one movie. We saw it the first time. You can just move on directly to it's arrival in the battle after that. Destoroyah being larger doesn't automatically mean that it wants to fight Godzilla now. I guess it still has some unsettled business with Junior. So it flies at him and picks him up. And then drops him. Douchebag. Guess who doesn't like that. Miki (and Meru) fly to Junior. Eventually Junior dies. Miki says that Godzilla is crying. "He can't understand why he's lost his family." You'd better hope he doesn't understand cause you were the geniuses who used Junior as bait. She then says, "I have a feeling this is going to be Godzilla's last fight". Then you people better stop making super-monsters, cause i don't know who's going to fight them for you. Destoroyah gets his tail wrapped around Godzilla's neck and starts dragging him around the airfield. By the way, the plane in the middle of the first of the two pictures above is driving down the runway like it's going to take off. I don't know who cleared that flight. If they shut down every time there was a daikaiju in Tokyo, nobody would ever get anywhere. Godzilla's temperature is said to have reached 1161 at this point. It's hard to show this, but in addition to the blasts that we've seen before, Destoroyah also has a laser sword that comes out of his horn. Soon after that, Godzilla starts to glow. Kind of like the rage power up, but purple instead of red. I guess he's approaching meltdown. Whatever it is, it does power him up ("even the Destoroyah can do nothing against Godzilla's power"), and Godzilla presses the attack. Goo is just gushing out of Destoroyah at this point, and he breaks back down into his component pieces, although compared to Godzilla they look like they are taller than 10 feet. This is where we start to get into the bad editing. The original ending called for Super X-3 to blast both Godzilla and Destoroyah, with Destoroyah dying from the combined power of Godzilla's meltdown and Super X. But, understandably, it was decided that Godzilla's death scene should be given the full spotlight without Destoroyah crowding the shot. It's too bad they didn't realize that until after they filmed the movie, though. Because what we have instead is Godzilla fighting the smaller creatures, and then falling over. And the next thing you know, he's walking over to Junior's corpse, and we're like, "What happened? Is Destoroyah dead? Did Godzilla just land on all of the creatures and crush them?". But Destoroyah suddenly reappears, back in his "adult" form. Super X-3 keeps it busy while Godzilla is approaching his son. Godzilla bends down and breaths some energy into Junior. Destoroyah then attacks Godzilla again. Godzilla's spines are melting. "It's time." Meanwhile, the JSDF shows up to attack Destoroyah, and apparently kills it with their ULT lasers. Destoroyah dies offscreen, and they don't even mention it. So lame! Super X-3 then blasts Godzilla with the freeze rays as he reaches 1200 degree. That contains the meltdown (unless it would have been contained anyway since Godzilla transferred energy to Junior), but doesn't prevent Godzilla from dying. Geez, did he look into the Ark of the Covenant? Dr. Ijuin and Yukari have this exchange: Suddenly, it's noted that the radioactivity in the city is disappearing, and the movie ends with a silhouette of the revived and further mutated Junior. It was long rumored that the Godzilla that appeared in Godzilla 2000 is really Godzilla Junior, and there are similar rumors about Final Wars, but since those movies are in entirely separate continuities that doesn't really work. More on that when we get to those entries. As for this film, it was on track to be a really nice send-off for Godzilla, at least for the Heisei series (since it turned out to not be the final Toho Godzilla film). But the ending winds up being a fumble. It's too bad that they didn't figure out while writing the script that the death scene for Godzilla wouldn't be as poignant if Destoroyah was hogging the camera, but based on what they had filmed, they should have stuck with that ending, because what we wind up with is a confusing mess. There is too much going on. There's no real rage expressed over Destoroyah's killing of Godzilla's son, and barely any time for Godzilla to mourn him. Destoroyah's death happens off screen and goes unremarked. Even beyond that, Dr. Ijuin and Yukari's final dialogue, an attempt to tie things back to the traditional anti-nuke Godzilla theme, makes no sense since this movie had nothing to do with humanity's use of nuclear weapons or nuclear power. There was the microoxygen/oxygen destroyer, but the consequences of using that were not as advertised and really incidental to the death of Godzilla. The one important source of radiation in this film was the volcanic eruption at Birth Island, and that's not shown at all, or even really explained. We had to piece it together as the movie went on. Such an important event that resulted in the death of Godzilla and the mutation of Junior should have actually been shown. And for thematic purposes it would have been better if it were due to some human activity rather than a random volcano (if that's even what happened). But don't let me make it sound like it's all bad. The fact that i'm even talking about whether or not a movie is thematically coherent tells you something about the Heisei series compared to Showa. And it was nice seeing Junior grow up (all at once!). Destoroyah is at least an interesting monster; better than the idea of having Godzilla fight the ghost of the 1954 version, which was the original plan (and which i guess we'll see a version of in 2002's Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla). For now that decision was abandoned since Godzilla had already fought doppelgangers of himself in the last two movies. And the visual of Godzilla in meltdown mode is pretty cool. And the actual end of the film, with Junior getting revived, is great. It's just a shame that some other elements got bungled. I never cared for Destoyorah's look. He was too weirdly bulky. And the extended scenes where the SWAT team fights the smaller versions just emphasized all the bad special effects. I have to say that Heisei might be my least favorite era. The monsters are unintersting, bordering on stupid (a giant rose monster? really, Toho?). They introduced a psychic character but never have her do anything useful with her powers (except when she finally decided to try her telekinesis, i guess. how could you not want to test that out before??). Too much time was spent on humans running around which is never a good idea because the plot can't sustain that much scrutiny. Just slap together a wacky plot but then show me tons of giant monsters fighting. The one exception to this is if it's a scene with Takashi Shimura looking sad. You can throw as many of those into a movie as you'd like. Otherwise - guys in rubber suits duking it out in a painstakingly detailed model city - that's all i want. And please - NO TIME TRAVEL!
Monsters Appearing: Destoroyah, Godzilla, Godzilla Jr CommentsI always figured after Godzilla fell the Destroyahs just backed off to regroup and come back together. Not that big of an edit issue. I mean either way Destroyah dies in its full adult form, be it the original or not. Actually I heard that footage is fake or rather was just a rough draft for practice and was never considered the real deal. And it seemed like Destroyah fell and blew up into pieces and perished from thermal shock so I don't think it's nearly as poorly edited as it appeared. I thought the final fight was great since it goes into stages while Space Godzilla just seemed to go on and on. Oh and I really freaking cried at this. Forget Ol Yeller Godzilla dying got me crying and I was so happy to see Jr was there to carry on. The last shot still gives me chills. Posted by: david banes | August 20, 2015 10:18 PM According to the subtitles, Birth Island was destroyed when an up-welling of hot water came into contact with uranium deposits on the island, causing a nuclear explosion. I looked it up, and a spontaneous nuclear reaction in uranium is possible if water and oxygen is available, but it would only produce heat, not an explosion, and all naturally occurring uranium on Earth has gone through too much radioactive decay at this point for it to work any more (the only time it is known to have happened was roughly 2 billion years ago). In the subtitled version, Kenichi specifically says that Baby might be dead; he mentions no "others" (aside from pointing out that most animals are killed by nuclear explosions, not mutated into giant monsters). And I forget the exact wording, but the part later about how the explosion "changed what was inside of him" was phrased to imply that the transformation changed his personality. Finally, whoever designed the set for the G-Force base went a little overboard with the detail work. All that detail was incredibly distracting, and what exactly was its purpose supposed to be? Posted by: ChronosCat | June 22, 2018 8:53 PM Comments are now closed. |
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