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Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: UN
Release Date: 1-FEB-2000
Media Type: DVD
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Released on : January 1, 1996
Running Time : 206 minutes
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Rated : Unrated
Director(s) : Kunio Miyoshi, Okihiro Yoneda
Total Discs : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, N
Languages : English, English, Spanish, French
Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
Studio : Sony Pictures
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Megumi Kobayashi, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Aki Hano, Kazuki Futami, Maya Fujisawa
 
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Customer Review Results
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1 2010-06-03 Mothra deserves better! Mothra has been updated for this pair of movies. She is now a warm, fuzzy, magical nature spirit loaded with spectacular energy attacks. She spits out more lightning than King Ghidorah... Infant island and the worshipping village is gone, and the fairies singing to wake her is replaced by an updated pair who summon her out of the ether... Wrong, wrong, wrong. The whole spirit of who Mothra is cannot be forgotten! Mothra is shy and gentle. She sleeps a lot, and it takes lots of prayer, dance, and singing to rouse her. She uses wind as her main attack mode, but she also dusts opponents with poison. Missing most is her delightful personality! Mothra is smaller and lighter than the other monsters, but she's SPUNKY! She snaps Godzilla or Ghidorah's tail, then whips her wings in a fury! She has a temper! Even when she is getting thrashed on the ground, she won't let go! I LOVE IT! But it is always an unequal fight: This is where monster pride comes in. If another monster sees her getting thrashed, they cannot abide it, and they will wade in to help her. She is a monster of cooperation, not communion with nature! This is the key aspect which is utterly absent here.
5 2010-05-25 Mothra Mania Cheese - Yep! But it's a fun type of cheese factor to sit down and watch this movie with your kid (who in my case happens to love Godzilla-type movies and to whom Mothra is a definite favorite!). Plus this brings back memories of watching these types of shows as a kid myself. We own most of the old Godzilla movies (as well as a few of the other kaiju movies as well) and enjoy watching them together.

These Mothra movies are not as good as a few of the other Godzilla titles in my opinion, but they are a very fun watch.
5 2008-09-07 Excellent These videos are some of the few kid-oriented monster movies, taking all the hustle and bustle from an ordinary monster movie and toning it down with a more gentle and dramatic touch.

In the first film, Rebirth of Mothra, a logging crew in Hokiado unwittingly removes the magical Seal of Elias from the forest. They release Desgidorah, a wicked space monster, from its prison. Mothra is summoned by her fairy guardians and engages the cosmic dragon. Her newlyborn larva comes to assist and the two fight the beast. Eventually Mothra's age and battle wounds seal her fate and she sinks into the pacific ocean. Her determined youngster retreats to a nearby island and cocoons himself(herself?) into a full moth. Will it be enough to defeat Desgidorah?

The second film, Rebirth of Mothra II, is not as strong as the first but it is still dazzling. A young girl discovers a little furry creature called Gorgo, the guardian of a great treasure from a lost, underwater city. Meanwhile the evil beast Daghara produces mutant starfish that threaten to overrun the worlds oceans. Mothra is summoned to battle the creature, but is infected with the starfish and takes a beating. The girl and two of her friends find themselves in a floating pyramid in search of the treasure, with two money-obsessed goons following them. Can Mothra defeat Daghara and the kids find the treasure before it's too late?

The effects are cheesy even by 1990s standards, but they're creative and entertaining. The movies are good stories with positive enviromental messages. The fairies for the first time are seperate with individual personalities, and a third, evil fairy makes her debut in this series. The only real downside is that the english dub doesn't quite match the actors but otherwise they're gold. If you don't like them, the kids certainly will.
5 2008-07-20 Magical, exciting, and brilliant The Rebirth of Mothra 1&2 double feature DVD is a perfect introduction to Mothra's adventures at their best. Moll and Lora, the tiny twin fairies of Infant Island, must stop Belvera, their evil sister. Belvera plans to use the ancient monster, DesGhidorah, to transform the earth into a wasteland. However, Lora and Moll have a plan of their own; to summon Mothra to combat DesGhidora and save the earth. Then, in Rebith of Mothra 2, Belvera plans to pollute the earth's oceans with a new ancient monster, Dagahra. Moll and Lora once again plan to summon Mothra and save earth and it's inhabitants. This is a must have for kaiju fans.
3 2008-07-08 One pissed-off moth.............. These movies are not bad. I brought the dvd, and enjoyed watching them. Give it 3 stars for the dubbing. It's terrible I don't mind the dubbing if it's done right, like the old classics. If your a Godzilla fan then add this to your collection. Rumors has it that Mothra 3 and Mothra (1961) will be release on dvd. Hope they do a better job.