Alien invaders come to the logical conclusion that if you can’t beat Godzilla, you might as will be a mechanical Godzilla of your own.

As never having tried to conquer the world myself, maybe it’s not my place to critique. Perhaps the total conquest and subjugation of the planet earth is harder than it looks. And when you’ve suffered as many loses and setbacks as the saucer men, perhaps it becomes prudent to think outside the box. Yet even with all that considered… What the $%&# type of plan is this?! What did the aliens hope to accomplish by disguising their robot like Godzilla? That the police were going to raid Monster Island at six in the morning and slap the cuffs on the genuine artical, having been framed for crimes he didn’t commit?

Don’t get me wrong. While I may cast derisions at the alien’s methods, I have only the highest regard for their machine, because MechaGodzilla is simply awesome. MechaKong may have been the first cybernetic doppleganger, but MechaGodzilla made it n art.

Lasers that look like lightning. Lasers that look like rainbows. Missles in his fingers. Missles in his toes. Heck, he probably has missiles in his knees. And let us not overlook the “MG” emblazoned on his arm, because MechaGodzilla knows that the most powerful weapon in his arsenal is the power of good branding.

Yet despite all that offensive hardware, MechaGodzilla didn’t do that much in the way of property damage. Apart from a hotel in the middle of nowhere that was probably more than happy to cash in on the disaster insurance, the only structure to suffer MechaGodzilla’s wrath was an oil refinery, which is low hanging fruit. Furthermore, it was 1972 — those containers probably weren’t even full!

But I don’t fault MechaGodzilla for any of that. He simply went where he was sent and did what he was instructed to do. No, I place the blame for any and all failures at the feet of those infernal space men. They are as arrogant as they are sloppy, leaving space titanium all over the place. 

Maybe the aliens have been spending too much time on earth. They’ve taken up smoking and drinking, living in a James Bond villain’s volcanic lair filled with James Bond villain traps, and hatching the type of plan one would see on an episode of Scooby Doo.  They deserve to lose!

On the flip side are the heroes, and let’s hear it for the scientist, because that’s one sharp cat. By this time, spacemen must have been as common as polyester, because in the time it take for him to take a puff from his futuristic pipe, he was able to deduce the correlation between space metal, mechagodzilla, space men, and their cave location just by watching Godzilla and MechaGodzilla have a stand off. When it came to making deductions, scientists in the seventies didn’t muck around!

Needless to say, the later days of the Showa Era where a trippy time. Fun, but weird. Aliens pulling nonsensical plans put their butt, and Godzilla developing whatever powers he needs to get the job done on the fly. But I won’t question the later, because he is the one true Godzilla, and he’ll do whatever he damn well pleases.