I'll cut right to the chase I don't like space Godzilla considering the monster of a monster movie is rather important it's a rather big blow against it. I kind of like the way he looks kind of like if Godzilla had a mega evolution. But he's also one of the least original monsters in the series, Godzilla from spaaaaccccee. His name is a bit too stupid to take seriously and this is coming from someone who watched the entire showa era. His backstory is just so dumb, it's and I paraphrase, "either Mothra or Biolante, left a G-cell in space, which fell into a black hole came out a white hole, landed on alien crystalline life forms and then grew hyper fast by absorbing the power of exploding stars." What the sig hell? Again I watched the showa movies so don't say well it's a "Godzilla movie what were you expecting?" I can deal with silly it's when you say something like that and then expect me to take you seriously. It's kind of a problem with Heisei era in general Showa had the good sense too leave their monsters origins vague most of the time well Heisei felt the need to explain things with bizarre pseudo science. The other major problem with space Godzilla is how little is done with the concept he is a mixture of Godzilla, his brother so to speak and the fist and only alien life forms of the Heisei era. Nothing is done with either, he's neither a reflection or foil to Godzilla and nothing is done with their connection. In the final battle between the Godzilla's more focus is put on freaking Mogera, then them. He could easily be a totally different monster perhaps named Crystilax, and nothing would change, hell he could be freaking Gigan working for a group of crystalline life forms and nothing would change, which raises the question of why even make him an evil(or maybe eviler), Godzilla? His motives are also vague which is usually fine as monsters can usually be assumed to be territorial and vicious but he seems specifically spiteful and malicious and I have basically no idea why he's any more malicous then Godzilla. I guess alien equals evil. Then you have the throw away line about how he's a sign of the evils of polluting space even though humans had next to nothing to do with his creation and it was a total fluke.
Okay enough ranting about space Godzilla the truth is everything else is pretty good, well okay the human characters Yuki a crazy yet strangely likable G-force member obsessed with killing Godzilla by shooting him in the armpit, naturally he's fun to watch, and Miki is good I guess even if she went straight from being willing to kill Godzilla albeit reluctantly to being pissed at everyone who wants to do the same, she's also sort of on board with turning him into a puppet in this movie which is kind of worse, so I'm not really sure what moral high horse she thinks she's riding on. Theirs's definitely a push to make Godzilla more sympathetic but he's killed so many freaking people at this point, and even destroys a few building for the crime of being inconviant for him to walk around in this movie so it doesn't really land for me. There's a plot about Yakuza trying to control Godzilla that goes freaking no were. Mogera the next era of anti Kaiju mecha is pretty cool however. All in all it's not a terrible movie but it's not up to the standards of the other Heisei films,
Okay enough ranting about space Godzilla the truth is everything else is pretty good, well okay the human characters Yuki a crazy yet strangely likable G-force member obsessed with killing Godzilla by shooting him in the armpit, naturally he's fun to watch, and Miki is good I guess even if she went straight from being willing to kill Godzilla albeit reluctantly to being pissed at everyone who wants to do the same, she's also sort of on board with turning him into a puppet in this movie which is kind of worse, so I'm not really sure what moral high horse she thinks she's riding on. Theirs's definitely a push to make Godzilla more sympathetic but he's killed so many freaking people at this point, and even destroys a few building for the crime of being inconviant for him to walk around in this movie so it doesn't really land for me. There's a plot about Yakuza trying to control Godzilla that goes freaking no were. Mogera the next era of anti Kaiju mecha is pretty cool however. All in all it's not a terrible movie but it's not up to the standards of the other Heisei films,