After the box office disappointment of Kazuki Ōmori's Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), Toho understandably wanted to bring back one of Godzilla's greatest and most popular enemies for his next cinematic outing. The choice of King Ghidorah, Godzilla's three-headed nemesis, was a sound one. Unfortunately, in bringing King Ghidorah back for a new era of Godzilla films, Toho designed one of the most needlessly complicated and circuitous origin stories imaginable involving time travel, World War Two, cyborgs, and genetic engineering. Basically, to prevent Godzilla from destroying Japan, humans from the future try to destroy Godzilla while he was still just a "dinosaur" during the 40s. Of course, this is all a ploy to create King Ghidorah so the future humans can subjugate 20th century Japan. But they accidentally create ANOTHER Godzilla which destroys King Ghidorah. So via time shenanigans, one of the future humans transforms King Ghidorah into a cyborg and uses him to destroy the new Godzilla. I hope that summary made sense. I could only write it after consulting several other sources because the plotting in the film itself is so scatter-shot that it is almost impossible to follow what is going on. The film is so hard to follow that it almost defies explanation. By the end all the audience can follow is "GIANT MONSTERS FIGHT EACH OTHER." And I know that that is the essence of kaiju films. But the film is obviously proud of its labyrinthine plot. Why else would it devote so much damned time to it? Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah can be summarized in two words: pointlessly confusing.
5/10
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