The Toho universe has always operated under a different set of rules.
Cities are flattened then rebuilt in days, but insurance premiums never go up.
Godzilla and the giant fiddler crab Ebirah play a game of volleyball with a huge boulder inGodzilla vs.
The Sea Monster(1966).
And in 1989sGodzilla vs. Biollantethe oversized villain is an evil rose bush.
Its another Japanese giant monster fantasy, albeit one with a lighter touch than most.
What the hells a damned moth gonna do anyway, right?
Eat a giant sweater?
Okay, so, hence a giant damn moth.
Despite what the original ad campaign promised, it was a much gentler film.
The results were, well, wonderment.
As the film opens, a typhoon washes a gigantic egg ashore near a Japanese fishing village.
I mean an enormous five-story chicken egg, just sitting there on the beach.
This five-story-tall egg simply becomes part of the accepted reality.
or run into the kitchen to grab the nearest cleaver.
We also learn Mothra is near death and grumpy.
I mean, the damn egg is eight times the size of the creature that laid it!
I know shes a magical goddess and all, but how in the hell did that even work?
Having no other defenses at their disposal, they spray Godzilla with liquid silk during the films climactic battle.
Godzilla seems to find this very annoying.
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Not so sure about the big moth larvae though.
He was dealing with some pretty surreal material to begin with, after all.
