On a desert island, experiments are being carried out to find ways of countering global warming. Scientists are going to speed up the hatching of a mini-Godzilla.
In this 8th instalment of a saga that celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, the gentle monster becomes a doting father whose only aspiration is to bring up a clumsy baby with an unsightly face, but he still has to battle praying mantises and a gigantic spider as big as himself.