Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah - Giant Monsters All...

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  May 28, 2011

  kiriyamakazou

  Godzilla is a horrible little bastard in this movie. He is truly badass. For once, he has no redemption, to the point that previous alien controlled villains are now guardians of the earth. This film grabs the human element by taking a father and daughter as an army captain and a... read more TV reporter. The effects here are just fantastic. All the puppets, suits, CGI looks great, and we get more Godzilla/Human interaction than ever. I loved the shot where Godzilla arrives and throws a boat into the air, only for it to fall straight down onto the camera again. We get some exceptional long takes of cityscapes. It's fascinating to see so many monsters beat each other in what looks like a real city. These Godzilla movies also have the confidence to just let it play out rather than making me sick with constant edits. With a subtitle of Giant Monsters All Out Attack, you know this is gonna be good. Just a shame that Mothra and Ghidorah were slightly out of character.

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  April 28, 2008

  DrBenway

  The first film since Godzilla vs Mothra to portray Godzilla as truly evil. Directed by Shusuke Kaneko, the man who revitalized the giant-turtle-monster Gamera series in the '90s, and reminds the audience what Godzilla is....a monster.
  
  Completely negating every single G-movie ... read moreafter the original 1954 version, the big guy is met with "guardian monsters" who are to protect the earth. Growing up watching Godzilla films at the drive-in and cheering along with other kids who were hanging out by the loudspeaker near the concession stand, I was glad to see him return in this film as pissed off as I've ever seen him. White on white eyes and an evil grin looking better than ever before. He's so bad, they've even made King Ghidorah a good guy. Keep an eye out for the Motsura twins who are on screen for only a few seconds.
  

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  November 25, 2007

  husky10000years

  Undoubtedly the best recent Godzilla movie. One of the only Godzilla films able to truly stand up to the original. The music, SFX, acting, and direction is almost perfect.

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  January 30, 2007

  cacutshaw

  One of my favourite Godzilla films. This one has it all and then some. Plus, Giant Monster All-Out Attack is an unbelievably awesome title.

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  December 16, 2011

  johnxerxes

  Strange reworking of the Godzilla story. After 50 years Godzilla is reanimated by a sunken American nuclear sub. There is something about stupid guardian monsters and the idea that Godzilla is actually the lost souls of all those suffering from the land wars in Asia. Or something... read more like that. As I say, it is DUMB. Also dumb? No Mothra twins. King Ghidorah is a wimp. and Baragon is just dumb. As in not smart. And there is a lot of monster dust and the power of magic. Serious. Noelle fell asleep about 30 minutes into it.

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  April 23, 2011

  dyronwhite

  While the suit lacks the beastial, intimidating demeanor of the previous ones from the last two Millennium era Godzilla films, complete with the jagged fins and all, it has a design that harkens back to the Heisei era films but with a blank expression and a mild demonic quality t... read moreo it. This fits this incarnation of the character as a murderous nightmare that cannot be stopped, much like what he was in the original 1954 film, in which this film is direct alternate sequel to (as was Godzilla '85 and every damn G2k film). If you get passed the chessy dubing and the costume in some cases, this film is entertaining as it is dark and menacing, like the titular monster.

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  September 30, 2010

  dukeakasmudge

  I think Ive seen all or almost all the Godzilla movies that have been put out but this is the only 1 that wasnt just a Godzilla movie to watch when there wasnt something else on.This movie held my attention from beginning to end.

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  January 7, 2010

  JexyMG

  One of the best Godzilla films ever made. Godzilla's face looks awesome, especially with the eyes, looking more like a real terrifying monster rather than a guy in a rubber suit, but he's a bit pudgy like the original Godzilla, which I guess makes sense since this is a direct se... read morequel to the original Godzilla movie. Great special effects, and Godzilla pretty much beats down everyone. He humiliates Baragon, who is more like a chew toy for Godzilla, owns Mothra, and makes King Ghidorah his you know what. Also, Ghidorah oddly enough is good in this movie, like everyone else sans Godzilla, which is odd, as Ghidorah is normally bad no matter what. He was also smaller than he normally is, probably why he got trashed. Anyway, a solid B action flick.

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  September 6, 2009

  CHILIcheeseDONUTSwithTUNAonTOP

  The Guardian Monsters; Baragon, Mothra and King Ghidorah attempt to stop Godzilla. Some politically-correct angle is taken in the weakest of all films from this series as the souls of those the Japanese killed during WWII have awoken Godzilla to punish Japan for her deeds of misd... read moreoing. The battles are great, but the agenda-driven plot hampered this film.

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  June 12, 2009

  FangsFirst

  Slowly I'm making my way through the Millennium/X series of Godzilla films, the only series completely available in Region 1 DVD releases. There are notable exceptions from both the Showa and Heisei series over here, unfortunately--well, notably absent, not necessarily notable fi... read morelms--nevermind the releases that fail to have original language tracks or original aspect ratios. Unfortunately even this series suffers from the repellently lazy phenomenon of "dubtitles," subtitles that are merely transcriptions of the dub and thus carry over all its re-written scripting that is designed in a dub to bring mouth movement at least closer to the audio track. Unfortunately it often deviates a fair bit, to the point that at one point I could swear a character cursed and the screen read, "Excellent!"--when cursing would have been more appropriate for the context. I caught on much earlier, though, when I began to hear words I knew--the light curse of knowing a smattering of Japanese and watching poorly translated subtitles--and saw nothing resembling them, even in spirit, in the subtitles. A quick change of audio tracks confirmed my suspicion, but dubtitles are better than the treatment alluded to above for other films, at least.
  
  Fifty years after Godzilla attacked Tokyo in 1954, rumours and hints of more monsters in the vicinity of Japan begin to come in, worrying Japan's defensive forces who repelled Godzilla in that first attack. Low rent sci fi production company BS Digital Q is filming one of their typical productions only to be rocked by an earthquake. Their reporter Yuri Tachibana (Chiharu Nîyama) is present for this, and glances over to see a strange old man (Eisei Amamoto) who disappears when she looks back. She's taken in by him and the earthquake and pursues the idea until she digs up information about the "Guardian Monsters"* Baragon, Ghidorah and Mothra. Brief appearances by all are seen when a motorcycle gang goes joyriding and finds a tunnel collapsing on them, while some thieving youths find themselves unsettled on a lake. Yuri is able to find the old prophet she saw before at a police station, identified as Hirotoshi Isayama. He tells her that she must wake the "thousand year old dragon" to defeat the returning Godzilla, who he tells her was created by nuclear energy but is imbued with the anger of the souls lost in the second World War, angry at Japan itself for forgetting them. When Godzilla resurfaces, he takes to his old stomping grounds, heading immediately for Tokyo, with the curious new monsters attempting to stop him, from the quadrupedal, tunneling Baragon to the floating and graceful Mothra on to Ghidorah himself. Yuri's father is SDF Adm. Taizô Tachibana (Ryudo Uzaki), who is proud of his organization's role in repelling Godzilla originally, critical of Yuri's company and worried about the oncoming attack, while science writer for BS Digital Q Teruaki Terada is clearly very interested in Yuri.
  
  Shusuke Kaneko's only Godzilla film, he is responsible for the admirable revival of Gamera in the 1990s, directing the entire trilogy of films that came out that time period (which I own but have only seen one of) but only taking this one opportunity to direct Gamera's far better known daikaiju "relative" (in the loosest sense, since they aren't even related by rights). It, like most of the Millennium series, is a direct sequel to the original 1954 Gojira and has no interest in any of the films that followed it. Godzilla is returned to his malevolent roots, while King Ghidorah is re-purposed into a mystical protagonist instead of a horrific alien experiment to create the ultimate monster--this is most definitely not the Astro-Monster/Monster Zero. Mothra remains as aloof and benevolent as ever, though Kaneko firmly notes that these monsters are here to protect the land of Japan, not the people or society on top of it. This makes for a pretty tense chunk of destructive action, because not only are the "good" monsters unconcerned about the humans around them, Godzilla is outright evil this time. Normally an unstoppable force of nature driven to destroy, this Godzilla actively pursues the destruction of people in some pretty dark moments, and always acts to retaliate against any one or anything that attacks him or tries to defend itself. As a result, there's a much greater intelligence to all of the kaiju that is usually not seen. Fights are less "choreograph it with the limitations of suitmation in mind" and more "find a way for these beasts to fight each other with the powers and design each of them has." This does mean, of course, that Toho had invested in a bit of CGI by this time (though not for the first time--but it's a pretty CGI-heavy Mothra appearance).
  
  The story is even more closely tied in to the kaiju action than the last film I saw (Godzilla Against Mecha Godzilla, which actually follows this one in terms of release, but bears no relation to it otherwise), this time being more of a window into the human world in a world that is really centered on kaiju. They are mystical as Kaneko made Gamera, elder spirits designed to protect our destroy, infused with the souls of people long dead for either revenge or protective purposes. They are bigger than us in both the literal sense and the sense of "meaning," their conflicts beyond our means and understanding, to an extent. Yuri and her father are the only really big human characters, and they both act primarily by responding and reacting to the conflicts. This is actually sort of interesting when one considers that this is film chooses to show more thoroughly the effects of Godzilla's destructive nature on people. It's clearly stated that numerous people die over the course of the film, rather than seeing a building destroyed without any real explicit declaration of its occupants (or a lack). It does make things a little darker than usual, while paradoxically adding this human element to a world largely unconcerned with humans.
  
  This makes for a pretty darn good Godzilla movie, albeit one that is clearly a deviation from most expectations (to the annoyance or disgust of some). It's interesting to see a Godzilla so clearly and actively motivated, though the design for this Godzilla is a bit off, being extremely dumpy and given creepy solid-white eyes that only enhance the malicious emphasis of the character this time around. Mizuo Yoshida is not to be criticized for his work, though, nor Fuyuki Shinada for his designs, at least not harshly. It's actually very well sculpted, and mostly works for this evil Godzilla, but is just a bit too tubby to be appropriately menacing from some angles Kaneko chooses. Still, it's good that the design differs as it does, because between the character changes, the varied approach and the new designs--all set to an unusually electronic score, albeit an effective one--gives the film the feeling of what Godzilla movies might be in an alternate universe, still entertaining and well-made, but different enough to remain recognizable but also recognizably different.
  
  A very good entry in the series, but a very unusual and somewhat out of character one.
  
  *A lame translation I'm guessing--either overly literal one or someone's idea of something that sounded "better."

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