Do you remember there was a Godzilla movie released in 2014? Neither did I, but maybe that’s because we saw it at the drive-in. Apparently Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a sequel to the 2014 film, and apparently in 2014 Godzilla stomped through San Francisco at some point. Well, during the mayhem, Vera Farmiga and Kyle Chandler’s movie son died, and it really put a strain on their marriage. So they split up, and now their movie daughter Millie Bobby Brown lives with Vera in a Chinese rainforest, researching classic movie monster Mothra. Things go sideways, though, when ecoterrorist Charles Dance kills everyone else at the research lab and takes Vera and Millie hostage along with Vera’s monster-controlling sound machine, in order to wake up lots of other monsters and let them run wild.
Obviously, the plot is really dumb. And the characters have some of the dumbest dialogue of the year. Mostly espository nonsense in between assorted lame quips (and very occasionally a good quip from O’Shea Jackson Jr., probably ad-libbed). Just terrible writing. So much terrible, terrible writing. But who cares, really? Godzilla should be about the monsters, and the monsters come to play.
Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah feature prominently, with King Kong and a bunch of other monsters making cameos (I don’t know who the other ones are but I bet someone does!). Monsters fight in Antarctica, monsters fight in Mexico, monsters fight in Boston, and I think they fought in one or two other places as well, but who can keep track? The important thing is, when the monsters fight, the movie works. And they fight enough that all the stupid writing can just be ignored, because you know another fight will come before too long.
Maybe next time they can fill the inter-fight lulls with halfway decent writing, plotting and character development. But if I have to choose between good human-vs-human scenes and good monster-vs-monster ones, I’m picking monster fights every time. After all, the monster fights are why I went to see Godzilla: King of the Monsters in the first place!
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Ah that made me laugh! It’s on the miss list.
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Godzilla? Pfffrz. There is only one true King of the Monsters, and his name is …
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Was so disappointed our local 2 screen theater didn’t get this. It’s Godzilla, I will see it on a big screen, reviews be damned!
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Pretty much sums it up. Monsters great. Humans not so much!
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I’d love to see monster movies with better scripts, but it seems we can’t have everything. Watching it for the kaijus! 😀
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The dumb plot actually makes me wanna watch it more because it sounds hilarious 😛
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I really really didn’t like the 2014 movie. It was a tad too pedestrian… and not enough monster shenanigans. This, though, this is why I go to the cinema… big monsters smashing other monsters in the big monster faces.
I don’t mind admitting that my biggest concern about this was that they were packing every monster into it.
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If I liked fighting and creature features, I’d be all over this. But since I can stand neither… Why is Charles Dance always the villain?
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They did a Godzilla movie in 2014? Where was I?
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Interesting review! I only remember the previous Godzilla because of Bryan Cranston… but I never really cared for this type of movies, I must admit. Even the one that one of my favourite directors made, Pacific Rim by Guillermo Del Toro, failed to impress me!
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Monsters all the way!!
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