The film stars off with a montage of Godzilla history, some a little inaccurate, but awesome regardless because right away you get to see monsters fighting. Most importantly you get to see the most awesome part of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla where Mechagodzilla shoots Godzilla a bunch and Godzilla sprays blood all over the place. Then Godzilla uses some kind of magnetic radiation power to shoot the rockets out of his body and keep Mechagodzilla grounded so he can behead him. It is important to know that Mecha was created by Aliens that want to take over the world.
Anyway in this movie some scientists are looking for the remains of Mechagodzilla in the ocean when they are attacked by some Aquatic Godzilla-like Dinosaur known as Titanosaurus, who doesn't look like a Titanosaurus. They are attacked and killed which leads a team of biologists to investigate this incident with Interpol. I forgot to mention the Sub is body slammed into the ocean and explodes.
The biologist main character in this movie is called Ichinose. Meanwhile, aliens disguised as Japanese people who look that way without any real disguising want to destroy Tokyo and make a Neo-Tokyo with the help of a shunned scientists named Mafune, who believed he could control a dinosaur he was looking for known as Titanosaurus with some device he made. Got all that? Well it gets weirder from there. You see, Mafune has a daughter named Katsura who helped him with his research. Sadly due to some faulty wiring, Katsura was shocked to death during an experiment and the Aliens revived her by making her a cyborg. This makes Mafune in debt to the Aliens. Combine that with his hatred for mankind for not believing in his life's work and it leads him to help the Aliens with a new Mechagodzilla as well as controlling Titanosaurus.
Interpol and the scientists now believe Mafune and want his help to find this creature, but they are too late. This does introduce Ichinose to Katsura however and the two fall in love basically over a couple meetings and one date. So Katsura warns Ichinose about going after Titanosaurus but he doesn't listen. They build a better Sub and narrowly escape dying. This meeting in the water does help them to discover that Titanosaurus is weak against super sonic waves, so they build a sonic oscillator.
Ichinose tells Katsura this and they are overheard by the Aliens. Then when Titanosaurus and Godzilla are about to fight in Tokyo the Aliens capture Katsura and put Mechagodzilla's controls in her stomach. Then they also capture Ichinose and tie him up in the control room where Katsura now controlled by the Alien's lackey Tsuda, is controlling Mechagodzilla and Titanosaurus with her eye beams and a computer, all while Mafune looks on in the same room.
So anyway, with less than a half hour left Mechagodzilla finally comes out to play. What follows is a damn fine Godzilla battle where the King of Monsters is clearly outmatched.
Ichinose gets free and goes after Tsuda while this one Interpol dude who is in the movie a lot comes in and shoots Mafune and Katsura. Once Mafune and Tsuda are taken care of, Katsura can think again. Interpol and the scientists finally use their oscillator to stop Titanosaurus for a bit so Godzilla can focus on Mecha. Ichinose holds the hurt Katsura and says, "Even if you are a cyborg, I still love you." Katsura however reveals that the controls are in her stomach and shoots herself with a ray gun. This allows Godzilla to take down the monsters, blow up the escaping Alien ships, and return to the sea once again.
This movie is awesome, at least by Godzilla standards. There is so much monsters and models destroyed, as well as monsters fighting. Just as importantly, the human story is equally ridiculous which makes it so much more watchable than some of the other movies. The main problem with these films is that for the most part the humans follow the same formula, even in this one sort of, so that story always seems like it gets in the way of the crazy big monster fights that everyone wants to see. Luckily the story is so entertain and strange in this one that the whole movie really feels worth the watch. I like scientists walking around in rooms and discussing things by the way. Pacing isn't always an issue for me as long as something is going on. Sameness is the problem with most Godzilla films, but not so with Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, and Terror of Mechagodzilla. Really I love to watch all of them, but if I were to introduce someone to Godzilla and I didn't start with the original, this is probably a great place to start.
