This is the newest Godzilla movie I have seen and they made some interesting choices for this flick.I really like how they make you feel sympathy for people and then have them get squished like a bug.My favorite scene is when the sick girl in the hospital thinks Godzilla is gone and then he smashes her room with his tail.This time the fleeing Japanese comically run into each other and walls and it's a nice change of pace.Unfortunately, all the new cool things can't disguise the fact that there is no plot and the movie makes no sense.Once again the main character is a person who literally has nothing to do with the movie.While millions flee in terror, she chases Godzilla on her brand new bike and never comes close to getting hurt.How Mothra and Gidrah end up in this movie makes less sense than how they leave.They even have an extra say "We should name the new monsters to avoid confusion." and you know where that goes.LAME.My biggest problem with this movie is that the creators still don't understand scale.One minute Godzilla is smashing ten story buildings by stepping on them and a minute later he's not even ten stories tall.And how is a moth able to hurt a giant lizard?Godzilla can breath fire that can blow up fighter jets but he just lets a moth attack him?I'll never be able to accept that.

SPOILERS!!! This Godzilla is better than any of the other Godzillas! For instance, the fact that he was biggest monster in the movie, and the way he attacked with extreme prejudice,unlike the other Godzillas, when the military attacked him, he made sure he obliterated them, not just the usual breath of fire, then move on to fight his opponent, he even proceeded to destroy the military battleships! man was he determined!! Also the way he dispatched the other monsters, This Godzilla is one of my all time favorites, along with Radioactive Godzilla:"Godzilla vs Destroyer". I recommend this movie any day over "Final Wars" seriously!

Godzilla is killed and resurrected more times than everybody Sydney Bristow knows. Those that have appreciated this series have long accepted the "cheese". This movie is no exception. It gives us the cheese, without the formality of a pizza.The movie starts out with a briefing in which we are told of the formation of some "Godzilla" defense force in 1954. In the present, a sub disappears and New York is attacked. While searching for the missing sub they discover .... ATTACK OF THE GIANT BOLD LOUD TITLES and some glow-in-the-dark creature, but that's not important right now. There are some main human characters, but after all they are just a lady finger snack for Godzilla. Yuri (the commander's daughter) is filming a docu-drama (think of Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of) about Godzilla for some 2 bit news agency (think HardCopy). After some more pointless "story" elements, the monsters make their appearance. Godzilla shows up at 35+ minute mark and the fun ensues. The following is based on appearance and not frequency of conflicts. Round 1 : Godzilla vs Baragon (reddish, scaled quadrupedal groundhog with a long tail an a horn)Round 2 : Godzilla vs Mothra (giant moth)Round 3 : Godzilla vs Ghidora (3 golden headed dragon)That is the gist of the movie. There is some mumbo jumbo back story about Guardian Monsters (Ghidora, Baragon and others) protecting the motherland (mountains, rivers, trees,etc). Add to this movie a metamorphosis, some ineffectual human military response (mostly in the form on a new missile that is mix of a Patriot missile and a oil drill), a lot of screaming and yelling, dead extras, miniatures of all kinds with a heavy dose of carnage and you have a pretty enjoyable flick.

The "Gozilla" movie series has gotten a bad reputation over the years as overlong toy commercials for undiscriminating children and nerds with no standards. Well, the next time someone knocks the Godzilla movies, you should show them this entry.This is the way Godzilla himself was meant to be. Not a giant superhero like in the movies from the sixties and seventies. Not some big animal just trying to make it in the world like in the nineties series. The Godzilla depicted here is all powerful, pure evil, and nigh-unstoppable, the just way he was in 1954.The thing most people don't realize is that the more serious a giant monster movie is, the better. And Shusuke Kaneko takes his monsters seriously, as anyone who's seen the 90s "Gamera" movies will tell you.Unlike most of the series where cities were destroyed yet casualties were barely (if ever) mentioned or shown (you'd see people running away or standing around watching, but hardly ever killed), when a city gets destroyed in this movie, a lot people die and we see it. We see the people in the buildings just before they topple or are crushed. We see the people running and screaming just before they're vaporized by Godzilla's beam. We see the soldiers fighting Godzilla die instead of him just frying seemingly unmanned toy jets and tanks. In an early scene where, a woman gets pounded when all the pots and pans in her kitchen fall from the walls and shelf just because of Godzilla's footsteps.The "Godzilla verses other monster(s)" action is at some of it's all time best here. No Saturday morning style, over the top, highly unbelievable fights here. Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah fight Godzilla with their claws, jaws, and a few simple abilities (Baragon's burrowing, Mothra's stingers, Ghidorah's electric bite) instead of everyone firing beams at each other with little or no effect and using silly wrestling moves.The monsters themselves come off particularly effective this time around. Godzilla is very fearsome and looks the more like a dinosaur than ever, using his mouth ray as the ultimate weapon. Mothra gets new hornet-like look that makes her(?) much more intimidating. Baragon gets some great moments, mainly because he was barely used in the older movies. He makes surprisingly good use of his meager burrowing ability and puts up a good fight for a little guy. One wishes that Kaneko had been allowed to use Angilas and Varan like he wanted to before Toho made him use Mothra and Ghidorah just because they're more popular and would attract a bigger audience.Ghidorah, sadly, doesn't fare so well. While the idea of Godzilla's mortal enemy playing the hero is kind of fitting, there's something about his new look that doesn't stick. He's much shorter, has somewhat dog like faces, his wings are droopy and almost useless until he powers up near the end, with his mouth beams are sadly absent until said power up.The humans characters are the best here since the first Godzilla movie. For once you actually care about these people instead of wishing they'd hurry up and go away. The humans here act like actual people with actual concerns instead of the usual gang of annoying, unlikable idiots and whiners with lame personalities and motivations.The plot has a lot to do with spiritual energy and mysticism, but Kaneko makes it work surprisingly well, which is a nice change of pace from all that junk about aliens, weird mutations and high tech science mumbo jumbo that doesn't make much sense that the Toho writers like to fall back on.A lot of people were initially disappointed with it for some reason. Something about "hurried pace and not enough development". But in future years, when compared to lesser entries of the Godzilla series, this will probably be considered the second best Godzilla movie, after the first one of course.