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"It's to put our fears at rest"
If Japan was at Minus One after WWII, another round with destructive kaiju would put them at Minus Zero this time. Two years after Koichi helped destroy Godzilla, a meteorite delivers a new terrifying nemesis!
It’s 1949 and Dr. Noda and his team are back with new member, meteorologist Aoyama Makoto. A new dragon-like kaiju has wrecked a town with biologist Murakami Kanji surviving. He joins Noda’s team in a search for a weapon to kill the newly dubbed Ghidorah. Pilot Shikishima Koichi is once again called into action, but Ghidorah proves as difficult to eliminate, or more so than Godzilla. Even a regenerated Godzilla might not be bad enough to take the ever-evolving alien kaiju down.
First off, I saw this in the theater and highly recommend seeing it this way if you have the opportunity. Wearing my Godzilla and Mothra pins I settled into a seat that would shake and shiver as Godzilla and King Ghidorah rumbled through towns and fought. A nice interactive experience. As a popcorn monster flick this film delivered. Godzilla didn’t show for an hour but that was okay because Ghidorah exploded onto the scene early! Ghidorah is my favorite kaiju villain and this version was excellent and terrifying. Certainly, a match for Big G. The kaiju were designed well and their scale to each other and their surroundings was believable as the tiny humans ran for their lives and buildings crumbled. I thoroughly enjoyed the new horrifying innovations for Ghidorah. I still miss OG Ghidorah’s sound effects that I only glimpsed once.
I was happy to see Koichi and Noriko have significant parts again as well as Dr. Noda. This time around there was a call back to Hiroshima with a vengeful Murakami looking for payback after his family was killed by the atomic bomb. Aoyama attempted to use weather to take out Ghidorah and then to track it. The Americans played a role on the periphery allowing the Japanese to take their shot at the giant foes while they observed from a safe distance. When a method was discovered to attract Godzilla, they of course, could see the potential for a weapon.
Minus Zero didn’t have the same quality of narrative cohesiveness that the first film displayed. This film had a tendency to lean into the melodrama with too long of scenes in an orphanage or Murakami slipping a cog. Koichi’s daughter was given every opportunity to wail at the top of her lungs which began to wear on me.
Overall, I enjoyed Godzilla Minus Zero and if it hadn’t cost a small fortune for movie tickets would have experienced it a second time. Not as thoughtful as the first one but as a monster flick they succeeded. The human stories were compelling if overly long. When the giant talent was on the screen it was something to behold. And the fact it was made for $20 million is astonishing. If you enjoy Godzilla films, this is one to try.
10 November 2026
Where are my notes?!: When the film streams, I’ll come back to this review. I wasn’t able to take notes in the theater and just immersed myself in the film.
It’s 1949 and Dr. Noda and his team are back with new member, meteorologist Aoyama Makoto. A new dragon-like kaiju has wrecked a town with biologist Murakami Kanji surviving. He joins Noda’s team in a search for a weapon to kill the newly dubbed Ghidorah. Pilot Shikishima Koichi is once again called into action, but Ghidorah proves as difficult to eliminate, or more so than Godzilla. Even a regenerated Godzilla might not be bad enough to take the ever-evolving alien kaiju down.
First off, I saw this in the theater and highly recommend seeing it this way if you have the opportunity. Wearing my Godzilla and Mothra pins I settled into a seat that would shake and shiver as Godzilla and King Ghidorah rumbled through towns and fought. A nice interactive experience. As a popcorn monster flick this film delivered. Godzilla didn’t show for an hour but that was okay because Ghidorah exploded onto the scene early! Ghidorah is my favorite kaiju villain and this version was excellent and terrifying. Certainly, a match for Big G. The kaiju were designed well and their scale to each other and their surroundings was believable as the tiny humans ran for their lives and buildings crumbled. I thoroughly enjoyed the new horrifying innovations for Ghidorah. I still miss OG Ghidorah’s sound effects that I only glimpsed once.
I was happy to see Koichi and Noriko have significant parts again as well as Dr. Noda. This time around there was a call back to Hiroshima with a vengeful Murakami looking for payback after his family was killed by the atomic bomb. Aoyama attempted to use weather to take out Ghidorah and then to track it. The Americans played a role on the periphery allowing the Japanese to take their shot at the giant foes while they observed from a safe distance. When a method was discovered to attract Godzilla, they of course, could see the potential for a weapon.
Minus Zero didn’t have the same quality of narrative cohesiveness that the first film displayed. This film had a tendency to lean into the melodrama with too long of scenes in an orphanage or Murakami slipping a cog. Koichi’s daughter was given every opportunity to wail at the top of her lungs which began to wear on me.
Overall, I enjoyed Godzilla Minus Zero and if it hadn’t cost a small fortune for movie tickets would have experienced it a second time. Not as thoughtful as the first one but as a monster flick they succeeded. The human stories were compelling if overly long. When the giant talent was on the screen it was something to behold. And the fact it was made for $20 million is astonishing. If you enjoy Godzilla films, this is one to try.
10 November 2026
Where are my notes?!: When the film streams, I’ll come back to this review. I wasn’t able to take notes in the theater and just immersed myself in the film.
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