Godzilla vs Megaguirus followed the successful Godzilla 2000 movie, but instead of building on that success, Megaguirus only muddied it. Seeking to expand into a new Godzilla series, the Megaguirus movie is set in an alternate universe where Japan is much more technologically advanced, and Godzilla hadn't attacked since the 60's following the banning of nuclear energy. However, when he does inevitably show up, Japan has its latest new ridiculous weaponry ready to combat The Big G: Dimension Tide, a black hole gun, mounted from a satellite with pinpoint accuracy, commandeered by the ludicrously titled "G- Graspers" organization (seriously?). When testing Dimension Tide, a dragonfly crosses the firing range and is sucked into a mini portal to another dimension, where it is mutated into Megaguirus. Megaguirus returns to our dimension through a wormhole, laying countless eggs around Japan that hatch into swarms of "Meganula" (pictured above attacking Godzilla). These lil bastards obscure the Dimension tides targeting systems from locking onto Godzilla, so the obvious choice would be to manually fire the weapon nearby the fighting monsters, right? Wrong. Apparently that idea was overlooked by the G- Graspers, because Godzilla escapes unscathed. They failed to Grasp him. The movie is ripe with horrid film mistakes, most notably being able to see the wires holding Megaguirus' wings up. There's a scene where wires pull Godzilla up so he is able to stand again, since the suit actor could not raise himself in the bulky confines of Godzilla. Also, Godzilla pulls out a new trick that we hadn't seen before, and likely will never see again: A flying belly flop! While Megaguirus may have had big ambitions, the movie falls far short, and the alternate Godzilla universe it sought to hash out was left abandoned. For a millennium series movie, this Godzilla movie was awful.
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| Megaguirus batters Godzilla in their final battle. |
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| What Megaguirus saw before G belly flopped him into a sky scraper. |
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