Son of Godzilla

    By this point, Godzilla had gone from a destructive force of nature to a defender of Earth. This film cements his transition by making him a parent.

    Scientists are doing weather control experiments on an island inhabited by giant praying mantises. An experiment goes wrong which irradiates the island. After radiation levels reduce, the researchers discover the radiation has cause the mantises to grow even bigger.  They discover the mantises cracking open an egg which is revealed to be a baby Godzilla.

  Godzilla arrives and kills two of the mantises and adopts the baby. The baby named Minilla grows to about half of Godzilla's size fairly quickly. Godzilla then instructs him on the important monster skills of roaring and using his atomic ray. At first, Minilla has difficulty producing anything more than atomic smoke rings, but Godzilla discovers that stressful conditions (stomping on his tail) or motivation produces a true radioactive blast.

A giant spider named  Kumonga is awoken on the island and attacks Minilla. Godzilla saves Minilla and they work together to defeat Kumonga by using their atomic rays on the giant spider.

Hoping to keep the monsters from interfering in their attempt to escape the island, the scientists finally use their perfected weather altering device on the island and the once tropical island becomes buried in snow and ice. As the scientists are saved by an American submarine, Godzilla and Minilla begin to hibernate as they wait for the island to become tropical again.

    This is an odd film. It's extremely cheesy,  yet touching in a strange way. It is definitely a huge change from what Godzilla started as. Like Godzilla vs the Sea Monster, this film has no real interesting antagonist for Godzilla. Just a giant spider and 3 praying mantises. This one also has no human antagonist. Strangely, there are cute moments between Godzilla and his son. There's a scene where Minilla plays jump rope with Godzilla's tail as he sleeps. Then the final shot is Godzilla giving his son a hug as they prepare to hibernate. There's also some typical parenting moments like when Minilla doesn't get his way. He just lays on the ground, and throws a fit making donkey sounds. Godzilla just grabs him by the tail and drags his ass. Minilla looks kind of ridiculous and too cute especially for being the adopted son of the king of the monsters.

One major complaint is the Godzilla suit which is probably the worst of the series. They tried to make him look more human, but ends up looking like garbage.

    Overall, this is a film that I don't  really care for. I prefer Godzilla as a antihero or a villain with some exceptions. This film essentially made Godzilla a full hero so people could get behind him for the next entry.