Rebirth of Mothra 1&2

I had the pleasure of watching this one on cable last year when I was invalid with a severe knee injury, and could not reach the remote control. Nowever; my gorlfriend LOVES Mothra, so I purchased this set for her as a gift. My review is thus: LOL!Seeing a DVD with a double feature of Rebirth of Mothra, and Rebirth of Mothra 2 was just too great for me not to buy, and knowing how my girlfriend loves the big bug, I had to get it for her to add to our Godzilla collection. Rebirth of Mothra is definitely that - its a new mothra, a powerful mothra, a mothra reborn into an actual persona and made sympathetic and likeable, but also a tad silly. Sometimes it's a good kind of silly, other times it's just a boring silly. The plot was a typical kaiju (Japanese for monster, i.e. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, etc.) plot, with a seal being removed and a wicked monster coming out to wreak havoc on the planet. The human (characters) acting wasn't that good, it really wasn't, but then again when was the last time a G Film was nominated for an Academy Award? The special effects were pretty cool in places, and pretty bad in others BUT there was some pretty good cinematography, and the typical landscape battlefields were as good as ever.Most of the kaijus I've seen, which is a hell of a lot, tie the humans into the story somehow. That way you're not just watching two giant monsters going at it for 90 minutes. Most of the time, the human plot is cheesy but still entertaining. Sadly - Rebirth of Mothra is not one of those films. The human plot, if I could even call it that, was boring and pointless and pretty much just had a couple bratty kids sitting on a mountainside watching the battle. If that's not bad enough, some of the lines seemed to be spoken in telekinesis, considering it was just blank stares looking at each other.I don't know whether to blame the writing, the directing, or the acting for all the blank, meaningless stares. All the humans were pretty horrible actors, and the bad dubbing didn't help any. The only three who were actually pretty cool were the three faerie girls. They weren't the same as the twin faeries from previous Mothra movies, and they weren't even 'twins'. Actually, they looked totally different, but that's ok. They wore cool costumes, carried most of the story, and even sang a song or two. And the evil faerie sister, trying to use Desghidorah for her own evil ways, was actually pretty cute, so that's always a plus. It's otherwise mostly pretty boring, focusing on human's who don't really have much to say or do, other then run around, doing silly stuff. They add very little to the movie itself, but the villainess Belvira proves to be the most interesting and entertaining of the lot.The special effects had its ups and downs. There were a few really great looking scenes, and Desghidorah (which was pretty much like a black King Ghidorah with four legs and trumpeting like an elephant) was pretty cool looking. But that's about it.Mothra looked pretty cool herself in a few scenes, too. There was the usual caterpillar version crawling around for a little bit which looked the same as always, if not a little worse then in older movies. I don't really want to give it away, but the underwater Mothra scene looked really good. The only problem is, there can't be the same kind of action that's in a Godzilla movie because Mothra just isn't as tough or limber as Big G and his typical foes. She can fly around and shoot stuff from almost everything that hangs off of her - including the patterns on her wings fer God's sake, but that's about it. This is pretty evident through most of the movie, when Mothra's getting beaten pretty badly. But there is one pretty cool scene near the end where it actually convinces you that Mothra CAN kick some ass.Overall: It's a so-so kaiju, with a couple cool fight scenes. This film is great if you're a kid just getting familiarized with the Toho monsters. Its good if you like these sorts of films, but its a must if you love that big, bad-ass, battling bug - Mosura!

One of the first things that people will say about these movies is that thy're just for kids. BIG FLIPPING DEAL!!! who CARES if the stars of the movies are kids? The movies are fun and the only two problems with the movies are: there's 'a save the trees' and 'stop putting trash into the ocean' message, which really I think is pointless. the other problem? bad voices, the voices for these characters are TERRIBLE! but, if you're a Godzilla fan, you get over that.Rebirth of Mothra: The story begins with Mothra sitting in her island cave, old and weak, then the scene switches to the Hokkaido rain forest where a logging company is taking down trees. while making rounds, a bulldozer hits a weird kind of relic and the boss comes down to investigate. the boss takes off a tiny seal (which you find out is the seal of elias) thus the two elias, Mona and Laura, whose ancestors made the seal, go to the family whose daughter was given the seal by her dad. but she's being controlled by the rouge elias, Belvera. a quick battle ensues and Belvera gets away. the seal was made to keep a giant space monster, whose name is Desghidorah coming out. Desghidorah first landed on Mars, thus the reason it's a wasteland. of course it gets out again, and being controlled by Belvera, starts sucking the life out of the earth, like before. Mona asks Laura for help to summon Mothra, but Laura pleeads, saying mothra's too old and even weaker after giving birth. but they summon Mothra and the two monsters fight. after a moments confusion, Desghidorah gains the upper hand severely hurts Mothra sensing it's mother's distress, the egg begins to hatch prematurely. and out from the egg comes Mothraleo, the only male Mothra. it goes to Hokkaido and tries to help it's mother which it does in a way. the family, which is seeing this happen in front of them is able to get out of the valley after rescuing their father. Desghidorah accidentally blasts a dam, letting Mothra grab her son and gets away to the ocean. Mothra's strength fails her and she's no longer able to stay in the air. Mothraleo, tries to get his mother up, but fails, and so Mothra dies, falling to the bottom of the ocean. (if you have younger kids, say 4-9, chances are, they'll cry during mothra's death) the baby goes off to an island down south and transforms into it's imago form, taking power from the 10,000 year old tree which it used for it's cocoon. it goes to fight agaianst Desghidorah, who now has wings, it suceeds and the elias seal up Desghidorah and you find out that Belvera is really Mona and Laura's sister. Mothraleo heals the Hokkaido rian forest which has been burnt up by Desghidorah and goes back home to it's island, healing Hokkaido.Rebirth of mothra 2: although this movie has better special effects, the story is weaker and Daghara is not as evil. one of the funniest lines in the whole movie has got to be when one of the kids exclaims: "Ew, this thing peed on my leg!"although this series is not as good as Godzilla, this movie definately deserves your time and your money

a écouté avec des enfants ....