Giant fuzzy moth is back, complete with tiny singing girls. Empty the Godzilla and evil Mothra flavour pack into the noodles and cook on medium for 3 minutes. And man, if you don't think harming the environment is bad then this movie's got a few things to tell you.

Note the original 1964 movie is called Mothra vs Godzilla. This is one of the franchise reboot movies they did in the 90s, which I'm in the process of watching and hope the rest are one hell of a lot better than this. About the only thing I enjoyed here is Ifukube's immortal and rousing Godzilla theme, which I believe I'll hum to myself while we do this.

I've always felt Mothra (Mosura) is the weakest of the Japanese monster stable. In its larval form it's basically just a giant wood louse that shoots silly string from its mouth, and the adult form is a big floppy plush toy. Kind of hard to take it seriously when it flies about dropping pixie dust instead of getting stuck in with proper giant monster roughhousing.

The Alilenas are back as well, though not played by twins this time. They're called "cosmos" in this movie, here to protect the Earth and sing their little hearts out. They're more saccharine than ever. The film also commits the atrocity of making the two main characters estranged ex husband and wife, along with the whole nine yards of that business including child caught in the middle. Will they ever be a family again? And will they ever make another goddam Godzilla movie I can watch without a barf bag?

So there's an evil mothra here too, one Battra by name. Though it resembles not a bat, at least it appears to be an actual monster. Unfortunately Mothra wins it over to the side of good by spraying it in the face with magic love dust and they double team Godzilla. The fight is not only lackluster but also obviously rigged, as there's NO FREAKING WAY the big guy could get beat by a couple flying bugs. Kinda pissed me off. I mean Godzilla's so tough you could bounce a depleted uranium round off his damn eyeball and he'd be like "did a fly land on me?". pfft, Couple of moths? Pull the other one.

It's funny how Mothra has eye spots on its wings to fool predators into thinking it's bigger.