I forgot to do a Saturday Night Showcase last week. So this week it’s a two for one, which also clears out my waiting library a bit.
Mechagodzilla is my favorite Godzilla enemy. Space Godzilla barely shares anything with the King Of The Monsters besides looks and has had the least of the recurrences. Ghidorah is pretty much everyone’s threat, and they even made him a heroic monster once, mistake as that is. MechaG (to his homies) is the best anti-Godzilla, awesome as those other two are. Whether used by humans to protect the planet or aliens to destroy the planet, Mechagodzilla is just cool to me.
Tonight we look at both versions of the mechanical nightmare. I posted his first appearance, Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla once for a previous Saturday Night Showcase, but it’s no longer available. YouTube, via Shout Factory using the Janus Films dub, does have the sequel, Terror Of Mechagodzilla, as the mechanical menace returns thanks to a different group of alien invaders. For the human side, which has been how he’s been depicted ever since, we have, courtesy of YouTube’s licensed postings, the wrongly named Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II. It’s a sequel to nothing and is the first time the bot was used to protect Earth rather than conquer it. Personally, I prefer the alien version but the franchise rarely uses alien invasion anymore, as it helps keeps Godzilla on the evil side rather than the Guardian Monster I grew up with. It’s sad. Whatever your preference, enjoy.
Terror Of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1993)
Ah what the hell. Let’s do a surprise triple feature. See who’s actually paying attention. This is the third “debut” of the human-powered Mechagodzilla.
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
BW Media Spotlight 