Why do people expect so much from Godzilla movies? I read one review here that dissed the direction, casting, soundtrack, egad, why set such high standards of art for what is only a children's film about smashing world capitals to rubble? Final Wars is a kid's film. Think "The Matrix" in a dot-product transform with "Mary Poppins" and roll in "Captain Scarlet" and a touch of "Thunderbirds" and "Pokemon" and mush all that into a play-dough ball that you use to fashion the likeness of the absolute power that is Godzilla.
These characters are stark, not sensitive anime like Final Fantasy, these are more like Yu-gi-oh without the slapstick. Serious warriors, flying roundhouse kicks, awesome laser weapons, cool jets, smash things, blow things up. In Final Wars, the bad guys are not the bad guys (like most Godzilla films) but The Bad Guy is, totally (unlike most Godzilla films) and you want to crush his skull just as much as Godzilla does. He's maybe a snappy dresser, but he's bad news.
"There's two things he doesn't know about Earth: Me ... and Godzilla" This is an action film for the grade-school crowd. It's also likely an adjunct to the Playstation "Godzilla: Save the Earth" which is similarly more about smashing buildings than any adult notions of intricate plot and thematic development. If you liked the game, you'll probably like the movie. It's also in the same budget and effects class as the recent "resolver" series of Godzilla films since All Out Monsters Attack; I call them resolvers because Toho is revisiting many of the past themes and trying to make some coherent overall sense to the Godzilla Universe, a non-trivial task.
Remember the line: "Because kids know, 'Monsters mean peace'" -- this movie is about that kind of peace. There's less of the sensitive female cop out to prove something or love triangle resolved by heroic sacrifice, Final Wars is all about good and evil, and survival. For the plot: an evil, powerful and unredeemable alien wants the earth as his toy and shows up just after a new tough-guy monster-hunter hero has locked Godzilla in the antarctic ice cap. Our invader first unleashes all our most dreaded dark memories, the monsters that had you hiding behind your popcorn all through the 60's and 70's and 80's, and then he graciously 'saves' us ... but for a price.
Our monster-hunting hero isn't the sort to take world-domination lying down, and he's got a kung-fu team of mech-warriors to back him up. And they do their very best, they really do. Only their best just ain't good enough.
and I'll bet you can guess who IS.
Sure, there's going to be 'collateral damage' (Godzilla not being renowned for his sense of precision, loyalty or respect for property) but desperate times call for desperate measures. Or so think the adults, including you, and including Godzilla. Only THAT approach isn't going to work either.
These characters are stark, not sensitive anime like Final Fantasy, these are more like Yu-gi-oh without the slapstick. Serious warriors, flying roundhouse kicks, awesome laser weapons, cool jets, smash things, blow things up. In Final Wars, the bad guys are not the bad guys (like most Godzilla films) but The Bad Guy is, totally (unlike most Godzilla films) and you want to crush his skull just as much as Godzilla does. He's maybe a snappy dresser, but he's bad news.
"There's two things he doesn't know about Earth: Me ... and Godzilla" This is an action film for the grade-school crowd. It's also likely an adjunct to the Playstation "Godzilla: Save the Earth" which is similarly more about smashing buildings than any adult notions of intricate plot and thematic development. If you liked the game, you'll probably like the movie. It's also in the same budget and effects class as the recent "resolver" series of Godzilla films since All Out Monsters Attack; I call them resolvers because Toho is revisiting many of the past themes and trying to make some coherent overall sense to the Godzilla Universe, a non-trivial task.
Remember the line: "Because kids know, 'Monsters mean peace'" -- this movie is about that kind of peace. There's less of the sensitive female cop out to prove something or love triangle resolved by heroic sacrifice, Final Wars is all about good and evil, and survival. For the plot: an evil, powerful and unredeemable alien wants the earth as his toy and shows up just after a new tough-guy monster-hunter hero has locked Godzilla in the antarctic ice cap. Our invader first unleashes all our most dreaded dark memories, the monsters that had you hiding behind your popcorn all through the 60's and 70's and 80's, and then he graciously 'saves' us ... but for a price.
Our monster-hunting hero isn't the sort to take world-domination lying down, and he's got a kung-fu team of mech-warriors to back him up. And they do their very best, they really do. Only their best just ain't good enough.
and I'll bet you can guess who IS.
Sure, there's going to be 'collateral damage' (Godzilla not being renowned for his sense of precision, loyalty or respect for property) but desperate times call for desperate measures. Or so think the adults, including you, and including Godzilla. Only THAT approach isn't going to work either.