Fifty years after they fought in Godzilla vs. Hedorah, director Kazuhiro Nakagawa brings Godzilla (Naoya Matsumoto) and Hedorah (Hikaru Yoshida) together one more time for a huge fight, using the suits from Godzilla: Final Wars.

This has Godzilla getting his eye injured, just like their first fight, but unlike that one, he makes short work of the kaiju we called the Smog Monster when we were kids. I love that the end of this looks just as psychedelic as the one I watched so often as a child.

In my life, I have learned that anyone who I don’t want to be friends with makes fun of Godzilla vs. Hedorah and talks about how dumb it is. It was one of the first shocks of my young life to learn that people treated that movie like a joke instead of a horrifying indictment of pollution.

Adult me loved that this starts with Hedorah basically smoking a factory like a bong. I always knew that kaiju was high.

There are two sequels to this, Godzilla 3: Gigan Attack and Fest Godzilla 4: Operation Jet Jaguar.

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