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After the disaster that happened with Mechagodzilla City in Godzilla:
City on the Edge of Battle, the human refugees who have just
returned to earth are pretty distraught as they know it's only a matter of
time until Godzilla will return to life. But their alien ally Metphies
seems to have an answer: Form a religion that worships Haruo as their
hero/prophet and thus a proof of their God's existence. Now Haruo doesn't
want any of this as he still grieves the death of Yuko in the aftermath of
the last movie's battle, and for a time, he even leaves his comrades with
the help of native earthling twins Miana and Maina, who have developed a
soft spot for him. But Metphies' religion doesn't need Haruo as more than
a symbol anyways, and eventually, in a big ceremony, he and his followers
summon the one being that can stop Godzilla: Ghidorah, though not the
three headed dragon you know from earlier movies but a trio of pathways to
another dimension, with each sporting a dragon head - you better don't
ask. These dragon heads soon sink their teeth into Godzilla while he can
do nothing to stop them, as they don't exist in this dimension. Problem
is, the portals are not only here to destroy Godzilla but to suck up and
destroy the whole world. Haruo finds that out, but when he confronts
Metphies with that, Metphies takes him on a mental journey, trying to
convince him that the destruction of earth is pretty much the way of
things. One of the twins finds that out though and sends Haruo a message
that in order to drag the dragon heads onto our plane of existence and
make them vulnerable, one has to destroy the eyes of their controler -
Metphies. Haruo does just that, and soon enough, Godzilla destroys the
dragon heads, and earth is saved. It's still ruled by Godzilla, but the
refugees and the natives come to an agreement to live together. And they
even try to build another robot out of the nanometal left from
Mechagodzilla City to eventually defeat Godzilla after all ... After
the rather solid Godzilla:
City on the Edge of Battle, Godzilla: The Planet Eater
unfortunately is a bit of a letdown, a movie with way too esoteric (and
also far-fetched) a plot to properly suck one in (especially since this is
supposed to be a monster movie), while being rather low on the action side
of things. And the references to Ghidorah
and Mothra,
two beloved monsters from the Godzilla universe, come in as
rather heavy-handed fan-pleasers, especially since their renditions in
this movie don't have anything to do with the classic monsters (which
would have actually made the movie more interesting). A wasted chance,
pretty much.
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