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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 915037" data-attributes="member: 508">I taped them as well, but my youngest son and I sat through them while we taped.  (My wife even popped in for most of the last two.)  My impressions:"Rebirth of Mothra" - Easily my favorite of the three, probably because the Mothra design (of both the original moth and the caterpillar) were the closest to what I recall from  "Mothra," "Godzilla vs. the Thing," "Destroy All Monsters," etc.  The enemy monster, DesGhidorah, looked pretty cool.  Also, most "kaiju" movies have the "monster" plot (two or more monsters duking it out) and the usually-boring "human" plot, and for once, I rather liked the "human" plot.  I really enjoyed the fight between Mona and Lara (mounted on Fairy) vs. Velvira (mounted on her cyborg mini-dragon) through the main family's house.  Plus, this one had what I consider to be "staples" in a Mothra movie (especially one with the word "rebirth" in its title): the death of the elderly moth (and that was handled very cinematically, with the slow sinking below the water), the birth of the caterpillar from the newly-hatched egg, the cocoon, and the "new" Mothra.  I was a little saddened that they felt a need to "power up" Mothra - heat beams from her antennae, "chest rays," etc. - but that's been the new standard since they "restarted" the Godzilla series."Rebirth of Mothra II" - Easily my least favorite of the three, since I didn't particularly care for the enemy monster at all (what was its name, Dagakra?), and I really hated that Ghogo (that's how it was spelled in the credits, although it sounded like they were saying "Gorgo" throughout the movie).  Also, I was very disappointed in the further "morphing" of the moth form, especially the "AquaMothra" (which my son and I dubbed "Fishra")."Rebirth of Mothra III" - A close second to the original.  It was great to see King Ghidorah back in all of his three-headed glory, but the bit where he teleported children into that glowing sphere didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.  Why would he do that?  I liked seeing the prehistoric Mothra caterpillars at the end of the movie, and the cocooning of the crippled Mothra from the future was a nice scene.  Again, I wasn't thrilled with the "armor plated Mothra" at the end of the movie, but at least she morphed back to her usual self afterwards.  And it's been awhile since I saw "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" - was that a tyrannosaurus rex fighting the triceratops in the prehistoric past, or did they use the "Godzillasaurus" model?All in all, I'd say it was 6 hours of a Saturday afternoon well spent.Johnathan</blockquote>

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