A darkly poetic movie.

This second film of the second Godzilla series(the Heisei series), following Godzilla 1985, has thankfully been released without any serious alterations. It is a darkly poetic tale that cautions against abusing scientific knowledge. If we ignore this, the filmmakers say, monsters will be born. The plot is complex and multi-layered, giving the characters more to do than just stand around as the monsters battle each other. The film succeeds in bringing the plight of a nation under seige, from without and within, home to the viewer. Biollante, while initially just a giant plant, soon mutates into an ugly and fearsome beast. Godzilla looks absolutely awesome! Koichi Kawakita has designed a Godzilla that is powerful, majestic, and very life-like. All of the effects are excellent, recalling spfx master Eiji Tsubaraya's classic work. The suitamation, pyrotechnic, and miniature work is worlds better than the over-hyped CGI technique and displays more heart and care than most bloated big studio dreck. This film, though not the best of the G series, is still an exciting kaiju adventure! END

One of the Best Zilla's Ever!

Third best of Hesei (5th best in all)

Cheers

The great design for Biollante.
The Saradian Agent. He must be doing SOMETHING right. This guy's able to kill off 99% of the main characters by the end of the movie.
The psychic's Human/Dino mind meld with Godzilla
The underwater fight between Godzilla and the Super-X2.
The evil Agent's eventual demise by the fast thinking Colonel, who succeeds in French frying the little nerd.

Jeers

The Japanese Colonel, who, while quite clever, allows an assassin to not only destroy the ANB but also kill several people under his watch AND lets him get away!

Rating 5 out of 5
Picking up where Godzilla:1985 left off, Godzilla vs. Biollante gives us better actors, really cool special effects, a great new monster and some messages. Godzilla vs. Biollante actually has a meaning to it, if you watch and listen carefully. Like the other films it brings upon us the fact that if we mess with nature and the result is devastating, it's our own darn fault. Biollante, like Godzilla, is yet another genetically engineered being whom we created and must face. Biollante represents the inner conflict in all of us, displaying what happens when Science meets real life. It also gives us some real life scenes and events, and portrays the ordeal of a family member struggling to realize that a relative is dead. For the ability to combine real life incidents with a moral and still keep this a monster movie, I give Godzilla vs. Biollante a five out of five..

A great Godzilla movie

This movie is one of the few Godzilla movies that can be enjoyed by all audiences. The movie is very serious in tone and has good special effects (for its time--1989). The monster fighting is short, but not cheesy at all (unlike many of the Godzilla movies).

DON'T READ BELOW IF YOU DON'T WANT A SPOILER ON GODZILLA 1985

The plot starts out shortly after Godzilla was imprisoned inside a volcano (in Godzilla 1985). Scientists are doing research on Godzilla cells/DNA, when terrorists blow up the lab, killing the head scientist's daughter and destroying the cells. Years later Godzilla is beginning to stir inside the volcano. Japan creates bio-engineered bacteria that feed on Nuclear Radiation (ie, Godzilla). But the head scientist uses the technology to attempt to revive his dead daughter. The result is a bio-engineered monster named Biollante--half Godzilla, half plant.

Long story short, terrorists wanting the bio-technology threaten to release Godzilla from the volcano and accidentally do. The rest of the movie deals with the consequences of the scientists' unorthodox, immoral practices. The movie has a very real message and a serious plot that eludes most other Godzilla films. The only reason I gave this 4 stars is because the VHS is of poor quality.