Compared to the original Mothra vs Godzilla, it is bad. As it's own within the Heisei series, I'd say it's about on par with Godzilla vs Biollante.

The message is too obvious, even more so than the original. And, geez the overacting here is terrible. Not even good in the campy sense. It's just bad.

Battra is an okay implementation into the series but didn't show enough of him being destructive... at all. Mothra killed more than Battra. This is just one example of how this movie lacks general common sense in some areas.

The only credit I give to this movie is that some shots in this movie are just great. Most artistic camera work I've seen in the Godzilla films so far in some scenes. They are mainly to enhance the sub-plot of the family in this film. Which is cute, but adds nothing to the film when they are not drawing a connection to anything else.

The message of the story is, be good to the Earth so it doesn't send a giant bat to fly around angry and do basically nothing.
It's so infuriating, Godzilla was already the prime example of what our mistakes have done as I have said many times before. Why do we need another? Hedorah was good for the fact that they were born from pollution, which the everyday person contributes to way more than the military complex. If the point of Battra was for this, they missed the mark. Battra does not pose a threat compared to Godzilla.

Coming off the back of Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, this was a big letdown.

**4/10**