Decent film, with alot of throwback to the original

This is the last of the "Heisei" series of Godzilla movies. This time Godzilla meets a more than formidable foe in Destroyah, a very large powerful and ugly monster created inadvertently by the Oxygen Destroyer that killed Gojira in the original movie made in 1954.

Godzilla himself is melting down (as in nuclear meltdown) and if that happens, the Earth will be destroyed as well. Parts of him glow bright orange as he lumbers around. A teenage Godzilla also joins the battle as does a fighting plane called the Super X3, which has ice rays and missiles that freeze a lot of monster naughtiness during the movie.

The fights between Godzilla and Destroyah are really kind of secondary as the greater tension is generated by the threat that Godzilla will meltdown. I've never taken Godzilla movies seriously but I will say that whatever impact these movies generate is lessened by the monster-on- monster action. They are more like wrestling matches. The destruction of cities becomes a side effect and buildings, power plants etc. just become things for giant monsters to stumble over as opposed to them being the targets of Kaiju wrath.