Godzilla - Der Urgigant

Originaltitel: Gojira vs. Biorante

1989
12
1 Std. 44 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

7259

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Desolate by the loss of his daughter, a geneticist creates a monstrous new mutation.

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Action Epic Dark Fantasy Dinosaur Adventure Disaster Kaiju Monster Horror Supernatural Fantasy Supernatural Horror Action Drama

Verwüstet durch den Verlust seiner Tochter, schafft ein Genetiker eine monströse neue Mutation.Verwüstet durch den Verlust seiner Tochter, schafft ein Genetiker eine monströse neue Mutation.Verwüstet durch den Verlust seiner Tochter, schafft ein Genetiker eine monströse neue Mutation.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

7259

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 2 wins total

Wissenswertes
Was voted the best Godzilla movie by fans in a 2014 Japanese fan poll. Ironically, its original release was not a success. The film had a reported $10.7 million budget making it not only the most expensive Godzilla film up until that point, but also one of the most expensive live-action Japanese films made at the time. Middling box offices results lead the studio to rethink their handling of the property and, in order to please fans, began re-incorporating classic (and therefore more marketable) monsters and stories into the following films instead of creating new ones. Toho would also begin to reduce the time and budget spent on subsequent Heisei films.

Patzer
After Shiragami is briefly interviewed by the media, Biollante is shown for a brief second appearing regular, but in the very next shot with Biollante, it's fully blossomed.

Zitate
Dr. Shiragami: Godzilla and Biollante aren't monsters. It's the unscrupulous scientists who create them that are monsters.

Alternative Versionen
Deleted scenes:
When Godzilla comes ashore at Abarishi, a scene of him walking past a lighthouse and smashing it with his tail was cut.
After Godzilla's first confrontation with Biollante in Lake Ashino, which is set ablaze by Godzilla's radioactive breath, spores from the plant creature shower the surrounding countryside causing flowers to suddenly bloom.
Originally Godzilla was to attack the Kansai Airport in Osaka, which was under construction at the time of filming, but permission could not be obtained. Instead, Godzilla and Miki engage in a telepathic battle near a heliport for the site in the Ise Channel.
A discarded concept was to have Biollante attempt to physically absorb Godzilla during the climactic battle. This was scrapped due to time and budgetary considerations but was the concept was visualized for the climax of 'Godzilla 2000'.

Verbindungen
Edited from Godzilla - Die Rückkehr des Monsters (1984)

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A Rather Boring Talk-a-thon

Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

** (out of 4)

After the huge success of THE RETURN OF GODZILLA, Toho waited a while before another film in the series hit the big screen. In this movie, Godzilla rises from out of the volcano and sure enough he heads towards Japan. The people there brace themselves for more destruction but then Biollante makes his stand.

I'm not really sure what Toho was thinking but this movie clocks in at 104-minutes and I'm going to take a guess that Godzilla might appear in thirty-minutes of that. This film didn't do very well at the box office and the company blamed the fact that Godzilla was fighting someone new. I really don't think that was the reason this turkey failed at the box office. To me this here is one of the most boring films in the series as there's nothing but non-stop talk, talk, talk.

I'm all for some great dialogue and a terrific story but we get neither of those here. We get endless scenes of people talking and the only thing we're wanting is to see Godzilla break stuff. He finally appears at around the forty-minute mark with awful looking fire sparklers going off behind him. The actual battle scenes between him and Biollante were actually good and especially the various green goo that comes out of Biollante. The special effects are actually above average for a Godzilla film and the destruction of the city was good. The ending was a letdown but it's too bad this thing ended up so boring.