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Crappy film

A Disappointing Continuation

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Many people praise this as one of the best Godzilla films. As expected, we get great allusions to the original 1954 film. They refer to it as the original Godzilla attack so it's kind of ambiguous as to whether or not they're aware it was a different Godzilla that time. We get to see the return of some of our favorite monsters in a massive all-out attack. Glad this made American theaters as it deserved to be seen. Godzilla's look is quite unique especially with his dead looking eyes. This was an attempt to get back to the roots of the original film.A pity that original film didn't have Godzilla fight other monsters. I especially like the ending here. Godzilla defeats Mothra who ends up sacrificing her energy to help Ghidorah. It was interesting to see Ghidorah on the side of good this time. Apparently, I've been pronouncing that guy's name wrong too. Ghidorah is also beaten by Godzilla! It takes direct help from the human character to plant bombs in Godzilla's body to do him in. It's rare you see Godzilla fighting other monsters and also destroying cities. I think even the 1998 Godzilla movie is alluded to here. ***

First I should probably mention that I don't really care much for the Millennium Series, it's silly, unorganized, etc. Except for this movie. This movie was actually pretty good. It has some pretty good acting. For a monster movie that is. The effects for this movie are also pretty good. Sometimes, during a Godzilla movie I can look closely to see Mothra's stings. But this movie was good in hiding them so they were not in sight. Now time to talk about the story line. At first I didn't like it, but now I thing its pretty good. The story line is a reboot ignoring all except for the original. To bad to note that buy this time all the millennium movies were reboot which is one of the reasons why I don't really like the millennium series. But as you all ready now this is the one installment I like. So I say check it out.

Finally!!! Toho Studios redeemed themselves for all the cheesy and low budget Godzilla films they have made (and for the not-so-good, Godzilla 2000 film)! Godzilla, thanks to director Kaneko, returns to his original roots as mankind's greatest nightmare, following the events of the original movie and discarding all the others.I hope Godzilla fans will forgive my comment (I 'm also a Godzilla fan) but it was about time that a movie which we can be proud of is finally here! What is really amazing is that it's plot is actually very well-written, with some amazingly clever twists (the way they finally destroy Godzilla is probably one of the greatest ideas in a Kaiju film!) the story actually makes sense, the actors (even the...extras) are amazingly... amazing in their roles, they are characters that you can care for them.In this movie we don't see neither silly kids, no aliens, no crazy scientists or anything else that was - unfortunately - the cheesy formula for many years in Godzilla Films. The directing is superb with some shots never before seen in such a film.Need to say anything about the music? Just think that I don't really like electronic music and I LOVED the soundtrack which is full of that kind of music! Of course there is also some orchestrated pieces, from the great Akira Ifukube (R.I.P 1914 - 2006) in the right places.And now... for the parts that made some of the fans "hate" the movie.OK, Godzilla is REALLY different in this movie, he is portrayed totally unsympathetic... a psychotic killing machine with a twisted soul... and that's what he really is! I never liked the happy - campy Godzilla who finishes his opponents with karate chops, or the "poor nuclear victim of radiation" scenario. The victims are ourselves and Godzilla is our punishment.Another thing is King Ghidorah. I really didn't know how to feel about the ultimate villain in the series to become one of earth's guardians but once you see the whole movie and how the story progresses and deals with this matter you will probably forget all previous Ghidorahs and pray for him to finally kill that bastard Godzilla.Yeap. That's how you're gonna feel about Godzilla in this movie. You will truly want him to finally die!There are so many more things I can say about it but I don't want to spoil too much because it's better to go see it and discover the magic of this movie. You will collect your jaw from the floor once the end credits roll.Sometimes I wish there was a sequel to it (the ending scene is quite promising) but maybe it's better to leave it as it is, it's too difficult to come up with something of equal quality in the story department.Godzilla sequels have that tendency to add aliens, and other weird story lines... (a robot made of Godzilla's bones? Ghidorah destroyed Venus? Xilians? Monster Islands? Godzilla Junior!!?)I am not saying the old movies are complete rubbish... but they cannot stand next to the original and it's legacy.The most original and beautifully made Godzilla movie in the last 50 years, "Godzilla, Mothra and king Ghidorah Giant Monsters All - Out Attack" is what I consider the true and only sequel to Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (the 1954 masterpiece)!It's only big flaw: That big bad title!!!

The "Gozilla" movie series has gotten a bad reputation over the years as overlong toy commercials for undiscriminating children and nerds with no standards. Well, the next time someone knocks the Godzilla movies, you should show them this entry.This is the way Godzilla himself was meant to be. Not a giant superhero like in the movies from the sixties and seventies. Not some big animal just trying to make it in the world like in the nineties series. The Godzilla depicted here is all powerful, pure evil, and nigh-unstoppable, the just way he was in 1954.The thing most people don't realize is that the more serious a giant monster movie is, the better. And Shusuke Kaneko takes his monsters seriously, as anyone who's seen the 90s "Gamera" movies will tell you.Unlike most of the series where cities were destroyed yet casualties were barely (if ever) mentioned or shown (you'd see people running away or standing around watching, but hardly ever killed), when a city gets destroyed in this movie, a lot people die and we see it. We see the people in the buildings just before they topple or are crushed. We see the people running and screaming just before they're vaporized by Godzilla's beam. We see the soldiers fighting Godzilla die instead of him just frying seemingly unmanned toy jets and tanks. In an early scene where, a woman gets pounded when all the pots and pans in her kitchen fall from the walls and shelf just because of Godzilla's footsteps.The "Godzilla verses other monster(s)" action is at some of it's all time best here. No Saturday morning style, over the top, highly unbelievable fights here. Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah fight Godzilla with their claws, jaws, and a few simple abilities (Baragon's burrowing, Mothra's stingers, Ghidorah's electric bite) instead of everyone firing beams at each other with little or no effect and using silly wrestling moves.The monsters themselves come off particularly effective this time around. Godzilla is very fearsome and looks the more like a dinosaur than ever, using his mouth ray as the ultimate weapon. Mothra gets new hornet-like look that makes her(?) much more intimidating. Baragon gets some great moments, mainly because he was barely used in the older movies. He makes surprisingly good use of his meager burrowing ability and puts up a good fight for a little guy. One wishes that Kaneko had been allowed to use Angilas and Varan like he wanted to before Toho made him use Mothra and Ghidorah just because they're more popular and would attract a bigger audience.Ghidorah, sadly, doesn't fare so well. While the idea of Godzilla's mortal enemy playing the hero is kind of fitting, there's something about his new look that doesn't stick. He's much shorter, has somewhat dog like faces, his wings are droopy and almost useless until he powers up near the end, with his mouth beams are sadly absent until said power up.The humans characters are the best here since the first Godzilla movie. For once you actually care about these people instead of wishing they'd hurry up and go away. The humans here act like actual people with actual concerns instead of the usual gang of annoying, unlikable idiots and whiners with lame personalities and motivations.The plot has a lot to do with spiritual energy and mysticism, but Kaneko makes it work surprisingly well, which is a nice change of pace from all that junk about aliens, weird mutations and high tech science mumbo jumbo that doesn't make much sense that the Toho writers like to fall back on.A lot of people were initially disappointed with it for some reason. Something about "hurried pace and not enough development". But in future years, when compared to lesser entries of the Godzilla series, this will probably be considered the second best Godzilla movie, after the first one of course.