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Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters

                         Pictured(Haro(middle)(Yuko(left)(Mulu-elu Galu-gu(right)(Metphines(Top right)

               

Godzilla: Planet of the monsters is a Japanese animated Godzilla movie it was release in Japanese theaters on November 17, 2017, but it was release on Netflix on January 17, 2018, it is the first entry in a plan trilogy. I watched this movie not only because I like Godzilla but also because, I also like Kaiju movies which is Japanese for “Strange beast”. If you’re wondering why do I like these type of movies? Well it’s probably has something to do with the fact that I was a big fan of the power rangers when I was a kid and the show always had a big monster show up before the end and I loved it, I love this genre so much that I’m going to watch that rampage movie that coming out in April it looks really bad but I’m going to be there when it comes out. The way I going to review this movie is in two parts the first part will be spoiler free the second part will have spoilers and will go in to more detail. So lets’ get to my thoughts on this movie. This part of the post will be spoiler free I’ll add a button, where I’ll go over some of the movie plot points in detail. So this movie was just ok, the movie has some problem for instance in the first few minutes of the film they just dump a huge amount of info about what happen when Godzilla rose from the depth and destroyed everything and why humans had to flee earth. The characterization of some of the characters is very weak for instance our main protagonist Haruo Sakaki runs on nothing but anger so much so that it blinds him, Yuko Tani our female supporting protagonist and Haruo childhood friend she is shy and wants to get stronger I guess that really all they tell us about her character. Then there Metphines who very smart and cunning he and Mulu-elu Galu-gu sort of share a secret you don’t really learn much about him except that he is unsympathetic and nothing else. The animation isn’t that bad it’s CGI and sometimes it works and other times it doesn’t one instance where it works is when Godzilla uses his atomic breath it looks great. So if the story and characters are weak why should you watch these? Well because the fight scene against Godzilla is glorious and very well paced. One reason why this movie isn’t that good is because it part 1of a trilogy so it has to set up a lot, All in all I give the movie a C. Now on to some spoilers

So one way that this movie doesn’t work is right in the beginning, where Haro has taking over a ship because he thinks they are using it to ship out old people to an uninhabitable planet which they will not survive in order to reduce the amount of people they have to feed, so when Daichi Tani convince him that there not being forced to go to the planet his speech is supposed to be touching but we know nothing about the characters at this point nor what their relationship to each other is so when the ship Daichi and the other are in blows up or is blown up they don’t reveal if it was an accident or if someone deliberately blow it up anyways it makes there death feels meaningless. The one thing I really liked was the so called secret that Metphines and Mulu-elu Galu-gu shared see they both are aliens who came to earth supposedly looking for a new home, Metphines people are called exif they are basically space elf’s they wanted to control human through their religion but that didn’t work and Mulu-elu Galu-gu people are called Bilusaludo and they helped built MECH-Godzilla but it didn’t work Metphines implies that if it did work and they did defeat Godzilla who would they bare there fangs at next and Mulu-elu Galu-gu doesn’t really deny it. Let’s get to the last bit of spoilers and the last thing I disliked about this movie and that was the fact that when they kill Godzilla in the most glorious fight scenes it’s revealed that the Godzilla they kill was not the original Godzilla but it offspring I don’t know if I should even put this in the spoiler section since the movie beats you over the head with the fact that it not the original Godzilla when they first see it after they arrive back on earth plus you know IT’S THE FIRST PART OF A TRILOGY OF COURSE THEY WEREN'T GOING TO KILL GODZILLA IN THE FIRST MOVIE it annoys me when a movie does this.