JLRVancouver As was the previous instalment in the "Mothra Rebirth" trilogy, this movie is clearly intended for children. The main (human) characters are three kids and there are pretty fairies in brightly coloured outfits riding a 'cute' moth, a non-threatening 'evil' fairy riding a 'cute' dragon, goofy comic-relief 'bad guys', a Furby-like creature with which one of the children bonds, a monster to fight, and lots of coloured lights, rainbows, and sparkles. The somewhat incoherent plot finds Earth once again threatened by a monster (Dagahra) reacting to our environmental negligence and, once again, the two fairies recruiting Mothra to defend us. The kids (and the comic-relief teen-agers being manipulated by Belvera, the cackling evil fairy) travel to an ancient castle to find a secret treasure that can defeat Dagahra (and his horde of predatory starfish). There is lots of running through castle corridors and couple of fights between the kaiju before a colourful Deus ex Machina climax, in which Mothra reveals even more magical abilities. While I am clearly not the target audience, I found the movie a dull and trite rehash of 1996's "Rebirth of Mothra". I was also watching an indifferently English-dubbed version which I'm sure didn't help. Other than the emergence of the ancient castle from the ocean and some early city wrecking, both of which were reasonably well done, the special effects were unimpressive. Dagahra looked like a large plastic toy and, even by 1970's suit-mation standards, was neither 'realistic' nor interesting. Mothra continues to the trend to be more colourful and now boasts a variety of 'energy weapons" (?) that seem to emanate from multiple places on her body (resulting in kaiju battles that are primarily repetitious light shows) as well the ability to turn into both some kind of flying-fish morph or a flock of little Mothras. There is also some kind of spiritual-tribble called "Ghogo", which will appeal to the very young or lovers of cloyingly-cute fur balls and who has a special healing power which I won't describe (but may result in a lot of sniggering amongst older boy viewers). I can't judge this movie through the eyes of a child, but I do watch a lot of children's movies and enjoy kaiju of all qualities, and IMO, "Rebirth of Mothra II" is insipid, uninteresting live action film that is just a notch above a forgettable cartoon.

Jss0266 First, I love the majority of Toho films. All the silly Godzilla flicks from the 70's and so on, but this film is taking it to a new level. Granted, I'll give it a 5 out of 10, but whats the deal with Mothra and all the powers it now has?....AquaMothra?...give me a break. Both creatures had too many different weapons that weren't explained nor seemed to be a dominant in battle. The effects were good, better than most films of this type, but I would have liked to see more land-based battles, because a moth in water doesn't cut it for me. Dagahra was a unique and interesting creature, so hopefully he'll appear again. After seeing the "Rebirth of Mothra", this was kind of a letdown and a little boring at the end. Hopefully Rebirth 3 is better.

ebiros2 Most people would think this movie is made for children, and it is. Toho has a tradition of making kaijyu movies for children on summer vacation each year, and this was one of them. But the movie is good on its own right with brilliant cinematography, good special effects, and story plot which only the Japanese would be daring enough to come up with. The plot is telling about the destruction of environment, and this awakens the monster Dagara which an Atlantis like civilization called Ely Kanai have created 12000 years ago to protect the environment, but has turned evil. Dagara's awakening also awakens what is known as the treasure of Ely Kanai called the Gorgo. Three elementary school children of Ishigaki island finds Gorgo and wonders what it is. Mothra's companion Elias and their evil sister Belvera shows up, Elias to help the children and to save the earth from Dagara and the other to capture Gorgo and use it to destroy the earth.Belvera claims that humans are useless and keeps destroying earth's habitat and deserves to go extinct. Elias has the opposing view that they still have qualities worth saving.When all American movie studios were busy making very dark movies such as the Batman series (which still continues today) which is based on some sort of amoral intent on the villain's part, or revenge and anger for their motive, Japan was cranking out this brilliant (I mean brilliant cinematography) movie which had positive message towards our children about the earth's environment (The first Rebirth of Mothra had message in that vein also). I bet no one in American movie studio would even consider such plot seriously, but which one has more positive message (to our children and to us) ? The movie is uplifting, and is worth enjoying. I give it high marks for bucking the trend of dreary dark movies.

trancejeremy This is a really good movie. I like Godzilla movies, but mostly in a campy fashion, they've good because they're so bad. But this movie is actually good. And many of the lines are funny. Again, not funny because they're goofy, but just funny. The main characters are kids, which could be annoying, but they aren't too bratty. Many of their scenes are actually funny. There are also the 3 faerie sisters (though the evil one has only a minor role), and 2 lackeys of the evil faerie, who are bumbling slackers, almost of the Home Alone variety. Generally speaking, the characterization is quite good - the characters feel like real people for the most part. The production qualities are generally pretty good. Ghogo (sounds like Gorgo), who is this muppet thing that looks like a refugee from Pac-Man, looks fake, but the rest of the movie is excellent. The underwater city is quite impressive, actually. You can tell it's a model, but it's an impressive looking model.The fight scenes are quite good. It follows the general model of these movies. 2 rounds, good monster loses in the first round, but comes back. But the second fight was somewhat unexpected. I saw the AquaMothra bit from the DVD liner, but that didn't prepare me for what was next. Absolutely brilliant.