Leighton Trent’s review published on Letterboxd:
"Please remember what Mothra did for you and the planet that you live on."
Did we somehow go back in time to the Showa Era because this is firmly in tune with the cute preposterousness that greeted the latter part of the late 60's and early 70's Godzilla films. There's nothing that inherently stands out about this one, save how obvious it is that director Takao Okawara and his team of six screenwriters are going for a more fantastical/family element here with the reintroduction of Mothra (a poll proving her to be the most popular monster among women at the time) and the first child main character in two decades after the seriousness and low box office numbers of the first three film in the Heisei era. God bless this giant moth and her miniature Cosmos twins though as they're the reason this film works at all as there's very little Godzilla until the big kaiju fight with Battra (What's Battra you ask? Why the dark counterpart moth born forth from Mothra herself, of course.) towards the end of the film.
In all the convolutedness of a story originally designed as a solo Mothra film, there's still a lot of fun to be had with this one. Though my son and I enjoyed it a good bit, it doesn't seem like one either he or I would come back to being that it barely feels like a Godzilla film because it really wasn't ever meant to be a Godzilla film in the first place.
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