New entry — new retcons. Everything this “shared universe” establishes is thrown out and rewritten in the next entry. After godzilla ate every monster introduced before Godzilla vs. Kong, by the start of this film the world is somehow again filled with more monsters. I haven’t seen the soap(s), but they couldn’t just create more […]
Yeah, just like the last time the movie is more interested in pointless humies than in the monsters. There are like 1,5 fights and you don’t see much either. The cinematography is kinda dull. Action scenes are a mix of stupid close-ups and pretentious angles, which do not work. You can’t get the scale of […]
GODZILLA 怪獣惑星 (GODZILLA kaijū wakusei) GODZILLA 決戦機動増殖都市 (GODZILLA kessen kido zoshoku toshi ) GODZILLA 星を喰う者 (GODZILLA hoshi o kuu mono) 1 russian subtitles. 2, 3 english subtitles. КатяхGoji A cheap low-framerate CGI 3D cartoon. If you pour vodka into your eyes until you’ll start seeing inbetweens, then most of the CGI will look okay. But […]
English subtitles. Thankfully this film was already outdated for almost a decade. So instead of another self-serious mess it’s more in the vein of Blade, The Matrix and Mortal Kombat. With silly martial arts action, colourful grotesque characters and constantly blasting techno/electro music. It’s yet another reboot story, but it collects the monsters across the […]
English subtitles. It’s a direct sequel to the Gojira x Mekagojira and I can’t tell if it has even one recurring character, because it focuses on a completely different set of protagonists. The monster fights are as cool as ever, even despite the abundance of outdated at the time CGI, and the cinematography being heavy […]
English subtitles. Grandpazilla Once again it counts only the first film as canon, and the Godzilla 1998, if you like fun. But it doesn’t count the Mosura or Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijū, despite using those monsters. From the first glance it’s a usual gojira movie, but actually it defies a lot of gojira’s mythos’ canon […]
English subtitles. А если бы Карбарасу, да ещё синий луч? Да не на пять шагов, а на тыщу?! Just as all “millennium” movies, this one is a direct sequel to the first Gojira (and also to the Mosura and the Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira) ignoring the rest; and the human part of the […]
English subtitles. Megagirasu is looked after by meganulons, which feed and protect it. The meganulon meanwhile get a liberation from mortal life, win-win. Dunno. Showa era films were often frivolous, heisei film series was often tryhard. These films are like plain 15% “not there” so far. Their plots are barely holding together, and are overly […]
English subtitles. Чугунивая бомба, радиус поражения равен радиусу бомбы. A monster-fight\destruction movie, which is arguably another reboot. Though at this point, calling a stand-alone gojira film a reboot is like calling any Hamlet adaptation a reboot. I’m a survivor, I’m not gon’ give up The story is weak, because it’s stuck in 50s sci-fi sensibilities. […]
To have a Gojira film you ether need two monsters fighting, or one monster destroying a city. While this is a yankee film, and the cinematography always sticks to some human PoV, even during the destruction scenes, instead of just documenting the destruction, it’s still a monster smashing a city movie. Godzilla appears only at […]
English subtitles. The next (and last) direct sequel in the Hesei era of Gojira. It has a lot of cool action, even if half of it is basically Aliens. But again it’s dragged down by nonsensical mess of a plot. Like poetry — it rhymes and ties back to the first film. Which is even […]
English subtitles. Crenshinibon It is the next direct sequel in the series. Japan still tries to piss gojira off, so they use baby gojirosaurus, who started to mutate into another gojira, as a bait to put psy-force amplifier onto gojira. Also they’ve built another giant robot, this time it’s a mogera clone (not related). Meanwhile […]
This is unbelievably better than the abysmal cocktease 2014. And this is an enjoyable movie in itself. But this isn’t exactly a gojira film. He is a character, he participates in the story and the events do actually happen during giant monster fights, instead of cutting right before them. But it is yet another MARINE […]
It’s a fine gojira film for what it’s worth. It has some cool concepts, but the plot isn’t exactly sure of what it tries to say. This is another direct sequel, so we have our extrasensorical teletubbie girl, while JSDF did recover 2200 CE tech from mekagidora to create mekagojira. In the beginning of the […]
English subtitles. This is the Gojira film i saw the most in my childhood. Judging by the presence of telepathy it is a direct sequel to the Gojira VS Kingu Gidora, also it’s a reboot of the Mosura. Thematically the story is rather heavy on environmentalism. But also it seems to blame the meteorite on […]
English subtitles. The next direct sequel after Gojira vs. Biorante. This one completely changes origins of the Kingu Gidora and adds details to Gojira‘s origin. Before, it was just a result of nuclear warfare, now it is an actual surviving dinosaur. The story is complex and unusually deep, well as deep as Gojira goes. The […]
English subtitles. A direct sequel to the first Heisei Gojira film. For some reason I believed that them making a more serious back-to-the-roots soft HD rebootmakester would mean it actually will be serious. But from the very beginning they’ve jumped into scifi in the tone and structure. It’s not 50s scifi anymore, but it’s scifi […]
English subtitles. A kind of soft-sequel-reboot of the IP into Heisei era. It ignores all previous continuity, but also is set in the world familiar with Gojira. At the same time it’s an non-sub-titled same-name as the original film. The setting follows real dates, saying that the events of 1984 are happening 30 years after […]
English subtitles. Suddenly they’ve decided to go all in, and this film is almost entirely made of new material, and sometimes impressive at that. Story-wise this is a direct sequel to the Gojira Tai Mekagojira. It’s rather dark tonally and they even have a scene with bare rubber bosom. But sadly it’s shaky and overly-cut […]
English subtitles. Aliens? Aliens that is. This time our fragile blue chikyu is attacked by green space gorillas. Their plan is to replicate Gojira but better, while human part of the story is about waking up the old guardian Kingu Shisa, who looks like roadkill chihuahua. They need it, because Mekagojira has easily disposed of […]
A subterranean / atlantean type ancient empire is disturbed by nuclear tests and wants revenge on the surface world. That’s what you are supposed to get from the movie. But it’s cut so bad and so often, that even if you will be able to understand the story, the plot is unsalvageable. Rapid cuts permeate […]
English subtitles. Мужчина думает что он строит парк развлечений для босса и ему кланяется и прочее, а на самом деле он с большим тараканом кланяется с жуком оборотнем! Another alien invasion conspiracy film, with different (to anything before) aliens, using same old Kingu Gidora (on top of Gaigan). Monster fights half-consist of old footage, happening […]
English subtitles. We had two black and white films, seventy-five movies in loosely-connected universe, five crossover franchises, a filmography half full of re-used footage, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored aliens, atlanteans, reptiloids, cockroaches… and also kids movies, satirical films, an entire subsection of political commentary, an eco-PSA film and two dozen comedies… Not that […]
Presumably Toho blu-ray english subtitles. It seems Toho, or someone impersonating them dumped a lot of classic tohoverse blu-ray rips with original cuts and original audio-tracks there. I’ve already said that giant monsters in tohoverse became just window dressing instead of the main genre, and they are using them for any story they want to […]
Some DVD subtitles. The Most Ambitious Crossover Event In History It is a kind of a sequel to all properties involved, wrapping them all with creation of Kaiju rando, a kind of a natural park to contain all giant monsters. But then alien invaders start their ninth plan from outer space, so overall it’s more […]
Terrible English subtitles, probably from the DVD-release. Hermaphrodad and his son. Most of Toho movies aren’t actually focused on giant monsters, even if they have them. Sometimes it’s an atomic age sci-fi, sometimes it’s saving the world against paramilitary invasion, sometimes it’s a caution tale about greed. This one is another Nippon-free side-story, but it’s […]
English subtitles. Another gojira crossover movie of unclear chronological order. And it is the first one, where people openly state that gojira aren’t going to attack good guys (despite it doing exactly that on several occasions unprovoked). The story is a separate off-shore event, unrelated to the Tohoverse’s nippon. The main cast has accidentally discovered […]
English subtitles. A crossover Toho-verse film, which is more or less a direct sequel to Sandai Kaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen. But also unlike that, it’s more of atomic age sci-fi space adventure, than a giant monster film. Both in the plot and the actual film — giant monsters have just minor appearances. The story […]
English subtitles of some DVD release. This is more or less direct sequel to Mosura tai Gojira and to Sora no daikaijû Radon. In the beginning they mention two mosura larvas and one radon is found on the same isle he was buried. This is the first crossover involving more than two IPs, and yet […]
English subtitles. Come and see the great Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity Egg. Right after the comedic, satirical and B-movie styled crossover of Kingu Kongu tai Gojira, this crossover goes back to being a dramatic movie. It seems this is not a sequel to Mosura and is not a sequel to any particular gojira film either. For […]
No name Russian fan-dub. For the first time in the franchise, it went into being outright satire\comedy. The plot is centered around TV-ratings, and the characters outright call Gojira “old news”, reflecting 60s cultural zeitgeist of moving on from nuclear bombing — life keeps going. There are still a couple of “dramatic” moments, but they […]
English subtitles. While the first film was keeping it more or less self-contained, the second one already went the vs. route. Though, with a newcomer instead of merging two established franchises into a shared universe. If the first movie was rather of the classic monster genre, this one definitely declares the establishment of the rampage […]
English subtitles. A giant monster sci-fi drama film, more or less in the same vein as movies 20 years before it. It starts things going pretty fast but never lets go of human drama or its core message. VFX are good and the sound design is iconic. The opening is frantically edited, which doesn’t fit […]
Subtitles. Bureaucracyzilla I wanted to watch it from the moment i knew of its existence, but it wasn’t in the cinematheatres. Two days ago i discovered that it’s made by Hideaki Anno, so i rushed home to watch it (the next day), hoping that i start writing this with a quote “So you do know the […]
Official russian cinematheatrical translation. Очень, очень печальное зрелище. Во-первых монстры. Удивительно как можно сделать битву трёх монстров настолько убогой и неинтересной. Медлительной, не имеющей никакой логики, и скучной. Во-вторых персонажи. Мотивация отвратительно неинтересно-уродливых монстров из Cloverfield ещё кое-как сходится. Все людские персонажи в этом фильме отвратительны, безынтересны и вообще, складывается впечатление, что эти роботы были […]
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