In the wake of his destruction of large parts of San Francisco, Godzilla has been spending the last few years puttering around the ocean peacefully looking after himself. But meanwhile the monster-hunting organisation Monarch has been tracking down other creatures, and rogue factions apparently want to awaken them. And only Godzilla can possibly stop them …
This is an old-fashioned monster mash, as four of the most popular creatures from the Toho series (big G, Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah) meet and fight in various international locations. Unfortunately, there’s also a human cast – made up of a lot of actors who have a history of being good in other things, who absolutely do not have enough going on to make them even vaguely interesting. There’s a decent thread going on here that could sustain this (including material that makes this one of the first blockbusters to think maybe it’s better if all of humanity is eliminated), but none of the characters pop as anything other than exposition devices, their interpersonal dramas failing to really register as anything other than the worst kind of filler. It’s a great set of creature designs and effects demonstrations in search of a movie to go around them. But dammit the epic monster fights are still kinda cool.
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