The Plots to the Mothra Trilogy

The man, whose name is Yuichii Goto, takes the metal home to his daughter, Wakaba, who lives also with his son Taiki and wife Mariko. He gives it to his daughter as a present. Unfortunately, Belvera steps in and gains control of the girl, who ties up her mother!

At this point, Moll and Lora, riding on Fairy Mothra, intervene and do battle with Belvera and Garugaru in the Goto's living room! Belvera escapes with the metal and calls up Death Ghidora.

The Aliases call out to Mothra, whose life span is nearing its end. Death Ghidora beats the hell out of the adult until the caterpillar Mothra makes his appearance. Death Ghidora grabs the larva in it's jaws and threatens to rip the newborn larva to shreds. The adult Mothra shows up and sacrifices her life to protect the small one. Death Ghidora is washed away in a flood when it breaks a dam.

The infant caterpillar makes his way back to Infant Island where he spins a cocoon. He doesn't metamorphose... it's more like he morphs into his adult form. (Just watch the damn movie, OK!!!!) He comes back, a lean, mean, green fighting machine, whups Death Ghidora's ass (That was for my momma, PUNK!) and restores the land to its lush green foliage. Oh yeah, and he takes the kiddies for a ride on his back. What a piss and a whoopie for a Gamera wanna be! ;-)

We discover at the movie's end that Belvera is really one of the Aliases. Go figure.
 

I just enjoyed the hell out of this one. Not that it was all that great. I mean, it had its problems! But overall it was a refreshing change of pace from the usual bash em and smash them till they're all dead Japanese monster movie.
The effects were great, and the storyline was something that the kid in me really enjoyed! I also liked it because it pulled my kids' attention in for quite a while. My thanks go to Jay Johnson for sending me this movie!

Mothra 2 -- Quite possibly the LAMEST piece of crap to ever hit the black market. But I'll spoil it for you anyway. Mothra is back, and he's fighting with this Destroyah clone named Dahgahra. Some kids row out to a gigantic pyramid along with their live, fuzzy little Furby like friend, Go-go. This animal has miraculous powers to resurrect the dead and heal the wounded... by peeing all over them.
At the film's end, Mothra (who isn't looking so good because all the little starfish are all over him) is resurrected when Go go explodes in midair and sprinkle's miracle water all over him, (in a bad parody of Lourdes) with a brand new pair of rainbow wings, and turns into what looks like a horde of X-wing fighter Mothras, and defeats Dahgahra. In a bad parody of the Exodus and Moses, he parts the ocean so the kids can escape. Quite possibly the biggest stinker of the entire Mothra trilogy. With Honda, Tanaka and Tsubaraya gone and Akira Ifukube retired and Kawakita at the wheel, what you get is a movie with a VERY poor storyline yet excellent, awe inspiring SPFX (well, sometimes. HEE!)

Mothra 3 -- This one was only slightly better than its predecessor. It's pretty interesting in that this one features our favorite baddy, King Ghidora!
A comet falls to earth and subsequently, children begin disappearing from out of school. Our two favorite Aliases, Moll and Lora, discover that whatever has been kidnapping all of Japan's kids also killed the dinosaurs 130,000,000 years previous.
Then, King Ghidora shows up on film, looking like a cross between the 1964 and 1992 version of the beast. The culprit who's been stealing the little kids and imprisoning them in a dome is in fact, Ghidora! Now, we knew he was bad news, but never did we think he would sink this low!
Of course, Mothra appears on the scene and has his butt kicked by King Ghidora. So Mothra, good hearted soul that he is, goes back in time to fight the younger version of Ghidora.
Eventually, our winged hero drops Ghidora into an erupting volcano (a la Godzilla 1985!) but not before getting badly mangled. This answers a lot of questions about Toho and time travel. The Ghidora in 1999 stays alive until it is killed off in the prehistoric past. Then, just as it decides to snack on the Japanese children, just as its going for the kill, it simply vanishes. (That would explain why everyone still knew of Godzilla when the time travelers came back from their mission:Godzilla in 1944. But, I digress.)
As it turns out, Ghidora is NOT dead, as one of its tails had been severed by Mothra in the past and so it grew into another Ghidora. The viewer is left to assume that Mothra, having perished in the prehistoric past and buried by its ancient cousins in larval form with a string pyre, is no more. Until the same cocoon breaks open and out comes a Crystalline Mothra with scythelike transparent wings. Ghidora is finally destroyed (after having a wing amputated) when Mothra flies at him with a supercharged razor slash that only Kawakita could have come up with.
This plot took a lot of very strange twists, such as Moll croaking off, Lora choking Moll and turning evil after King Ghidora possesses her like a demon, Belvera turning good after King Ghidora turns on her, Belvera and Lora engaging in a sword fight (!), Belvera and Lora hopping on Fairy and fighting King Ghidora themselves (C'mon, you knew damn well they weren't gonna defeat him... hell, they didn't even tickle him!) and last but not least, casting King Ghidora off as a child abductor. As my good friend Mosugoji said to me, "What was Kawakita smoking?!"
The dinosaur FX STUNK TO HIGH HEAVEN!!!!!!! ROFLMAO! To see a tyrannosaur chasing after a triceratops in this movie, after we've already been exposed to eye-candy treasures such as Jurassic Park, made one want to hide all one's kaiju films post 1989 in embarrassment! To see King Ghidora standing there with a measly tyrannosaur in its mouth (measly in comparison, that is) only added to the embarrassment. Moll's death from sending Mothra to the past looked downright fake and is only another attempt by Toho to show off their new CGI ability.
In short, give me the Peanuts (or the Cosmos) any day!!

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