Rated PG-13 for monster violence
Starring: Godzilla
Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura
The Story:
Aliens are attacking Earth. They are unleashing giant monsters across the globe. The Earth Defense Force decides to free a trapped Godzilla to fight each of these monsters and save the Earth.
Good plan.
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Godzilla, Toho Films took apparently the idea of the great Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters, and fuse it with some of the Godzilla video games, to come up with a 21st Century monster battle royal.
Which theoretically would be enjoyable...
But this movie was soooo long and slow getting to that point.
Even at 1.5 speed on the PS3. : /
If I rent a movie called Godzilla, I need to see Godzilla, in action, long before we do.
And I don't count the beginning of the movie where Godzilla is trapped in the earth.
By the time the monster throw downs happened, I was utterly bored, and really didn't care.
Plus, the monsters started moving and jumping around a little too unrealistically for giant monsters.
And yes, I realize how ridiculous that last sentence must seem...
But I expect some sort of lumbering, monster fights. Not a parkour/ninja/pro wrestling Godzilla duking it out with similar monsters.
Now I want to see Destroy All Monsters again to see if they were as offensive in their fighting style, or if it was a more plodding fight style that I remember.
Very disappointed in the 50th Anniversary of the big G.
Hopefully the 60th anniversary version rectifies this blight.
Final Grade: D+
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: No thanks.
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