10/10
One of the best of Godzilla
13 April 2004
Picking up where "Godzilla 1984/85" left off, Godzilla's skin samples are a hot commodity that everyone is after in the name of science. One scientist, who tried to make a super plant source with his daughter as a way to solve world hunger or something, loses his daughter when terrorists attack his lab and later gets a chance to get her back by mixing those Godzilla cells with plants. This leads to a giant plant monster named Biollante that has the daughter of his dead spirit possessing it. Terrorists also after the cells eventually blow up the volcano Godzilla was trapped in and all hell breaks loose when Godzilla comes to town, battles Biollante in two different forms, and is almost killed by a lethal poison.

Plots and characters are about the same as usual (that includes the dubbing) but production value wise, this was a high quality film. Godzilla has never looked more real and life like in any of his other films than he does here. Biollante also proves to be a very nasty monster, initially a giant rose and later a giant crocodile with tentacles. Lots of violence and cool special effects follow suite, along with good music to boot. And of course, the age old moral that mankind shouldn't be screwing around with the order of things when Mother Nature set certain things up a certain way for a reason.

"Godzilla and Biollante aren't monsters. It's the unscrupulous scientists who create them that are monsters".
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