Rebirth of Mothra II (1997)

Rebirth of Mothra II (1997). 1h 37m | Unrated

“The sequel to the 1996 u0026quot;Rebirth of Mothrau0026quot; and like its predecessor it is a mixed bag. In all technical reasoning, this movieu0026#39;s characters suck more ass than the first oneu0026#39;s. For some odd reason, the writers thought it was a good idea to mimic the 60s Gamera movies and center the film on child characters. Thing is, 60s Gamera sucked ass, so how was it in any way a good idea? In doing so the human angle is entirely botched from the start, and ruins the movieu0026#39;s remote chance of standing up to Godzilla. Itu0026#39;s even more painful in the dubbed version, so please, if you can and at all just stay away from the English dubbed DVD. That means you Sony.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s a real shame, considering almost every other aspect is done quite well. Mothra Leo is a beautiful rendition of the giant moth, and Dagahra is an impressive foe, looking pretty bad ass. The fight scenes are pretty well executed, although thereu0026#39;s some over kill with Mothra and all those laser beams. The temple of Ninai Kanai itself is an awesome miniature and thereu0026#39;s actually city destruction in this one. And composer Toshiyuki Watanabe is no Akira Ifukube, but the score is well done and I have to admit some moments were made truly awesome because of it. And letu0026#39;s not forget the final battle where (Aqua) Mothra delivers the bad-ass final blow. I enjoyed the monster scenes and special effects quite a bit, but when the monsters are not on screen I get annoyed.”