Godzilla 2: Kessen Kidou Zoushoku Toshi

This was a major improvement from the first film. As an avid fan of kaiju films, this was an exciting movie! The story was so well done and intriguing, I was hooked for the entire hour and 40-minute ride! The whole story about the Hotua and their obvious connection to Mothra was insane! (The "dust"/"scale" on their skin, and what they used to heal the humans, probably scales from the dead body of Mothra herself!) It will be interesting to see if her egg(s) hatch and larva come out to either combat Godzilla or Ghidorah (What a welcome surprise, but it wasn't unexpected too much!). Thishas to be one of the best takes on the Mothra twins/Shobijin in her film history, and Mothra's mythology in general. As for "MechaGodzilla"... While the design was wicked for the robot himself, we get nothing but a glimpse of him before it evolves into something much greater. The concept of having the nanometals evolve to specifically combat Godzilla over thousands of years was incredible and a welcome change. The Vultures they build to fight Godzilla from above were very Gundam-esque and cool looking. Seeing MechaGodzilla City construct and arm itself was very visually pleasing (As well as that title card!) While this is an incredibly ballsy and different take on MechaGodzilla's concept, it is something fresh and new while paying homage to the originals. As for Godzilla himself? A job well is done. This film didn't have a ton of Godzilla, but man when he is on screen he is stunning. There is no doubt in my mind that "Godzilla Earth" is truly the King of Kings. The story was so interesting and investive that I didn't find myself "needing" Godzilla to show up like I did in the first film. We get a single tease of him early on, and then when he comes on screen he doesn't leave. The end turns mankind's greatest threat into the universe's. I was taken by surprise when the Bilusaludo turned out to be the enemy aliens and not the Exif. I thought for certain the Exif would be summoning Ghidorah based on the first film's ending, but it turns out they merely suffered from the deity's mighty wrath. They are doing a great job setting up this huge dogfight between Godzilla and King Ghidorah. It seems that this time around, Godzilla won't be needing external aid to defeat him (as Godzilla has never defeated Ghidorah without help). This film has me just as excited for Ghidorah's return to the big screen as I am for his first appearance in the American MonsterVerse. Overall, this film was many times better than I expected. It saves all the action for the last minute while delivering a great naratve. The bland characters from the first film were expanded upon and I actually some-what cared for how they fared. Cheers to this film's major improvement and the final film in this series!

We all know Netflix has an abundance of money, allowing them to undercut the cinema industry and cable television with their bombardment of original content. With over 700 original movies/TV shows being released this year, Netflix has decided that 30 of those will be anime-related. Capturing a significant/growing portion of the population who is dedicated to this Japanese genre of entertainment. That being said, however, the sudden influx of new anime content doesn’t necessarily mean we, as the public, will be receiving a quality product, as it seems that the Americanization of anime has — unfortunately — become a trend. If this werea 2005 PS2 game, I’m sure it would be an exhilarating experience with plenty of action filled fun; but as a movie, it just feels like a bungling stew of machismo, and misplaced human rage. Rather than formulating unique battle plans to defeat the “unstoppable” Godzilla, they have the aid of dues ex Machina (i.e. the nano-metal) to solve all of their problems. Combine this with full-tilt, reckless action sequences, and you’re on your way toward imitating a Michael Bay film. Because thinking of a way to stop Godzilla’s reign of terror with human technology is too burdensome, even though Hideaki Anno (director of Shin Godzilla) did so a mere two years prior. In addition, while the crew acknowledges the events that lead to Godzilla’s conception — that being, human pollution and the detonation of nuclear bombs — they seem to lack contrition for their role in his eventual birth. In their ignorance, they label him as an “evil” creature that must be annihilated, rather than evaluating their own mistakes as a species, and determining how they must remedy the “evil” within themselves. This harkens to a person who pops pimples on their face, without acknowledging the actions that led to those unsightly clogged pores from manifesting in the first place (i.e. bad diet, stress, over-washing your face). The animation is, in a word: Fremdschämen. A German term which roughly translates into, “being ashamed for somebody else who is behaving in an embarrassing way.” I cannot think of a better word to describe my feelings when watching the animation for this movie. There were moments in which characters appeared to be moving in mechanical ways, resembling the gestures of a stiff action figure. Godzilla, whiling looking like a roided-out super athlete, also had the appearance of a wrinkly, geriatric dinosaur (similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is “German-ish”). GEMBA/Millepensee animation (the studios behind Berserk 2016) are probably releasing a collective sigh of relief, saying: “at least there’s another animation studio as bad as ours.” It was evident from the outset that the animation studio wanted to produce a high paced action movie, but why wait until the final 30 minutes for Godzilla to randomly show up to do so. We already established that this film has very little to say from a narrative level, so why pretend otherwise? If the end goal is to neglect characterization and an engaging story, then just follow in the steps of Gurren Lagann and embrace full-throttled mayhem. At least, in that sense, it would have been a semi-entertaining movie. Instead, we receive a mentally constipated crew of soldiers who muddle around in anger until the MC (Godzilla) makes his appearance.

"Descended or not, they're not an evolution more like a new generation." Part of me really wants to like this trilogy but it's making it incredibly difficult due to how shocking the quality of the actual story is. The positive stuff from the previous adventure carries over, like the music and animation but dear god has it just nose-dived into pure angst. Following the events of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the Aratrum is unable to contact Haruo and the rest after their encounter with the original Godzilla. The Captain orders the Aratrum's withdrawal if drones fail to find survivors within 48 hours. Haruo reunites with someof his teammates and is taken captive by a humanoid hunting party. The group are reunited with Martin Lazzari whose platoon have been healed by a humanoid race who is known as the "Houtua", surviving descendants of humans who remained on Earth and safeguard the egg of their fallen deity. The group are telepathically questioned by the Houtua leaders over why they burned their lands, letting them go once Haruo explains they were only attacking Godzilla. Haruo's group reunites with Metphies and the other survivors during an encounter with the Servum. During the fight, Galu-Gu realizes that the twins' arrowheads are laced with "nanometal", the nanotechnology used to create Mechagodzilla! The direction is definitely a step down from the previous one getting even flatter in comparison to the more interesting shots of the first. However, the fight between Mechagodzilla and Godzilla are the biggest highlight and show some semblance of competence. Takayuki Hattori's might be one of the best parts of this film, especially his themes for Mechagodzilla. The story has some decent concepts about remembering your origins but it's so needlessly edgy that it hurts. The characters are perhaps even worse than the last one but again it has some concepts which are okay. Overall, City on the Edge of Battle, a stupid title, is pretty a disappointing story that is backed up by a halfway decent score. "It feels like I'm about to go inside a monster."

The story is fine. I still wish this could've been a full anime series instead of three movies because there is a lot of world-building without fully using it. Things are brought up without needing those new elements in the story. If it were a full anime series, we could spend more time with those things rather than using a tiny bit of them as plot devices. I also disliked the main character. I dislike main characters that are emotional and value their own things over the things of other people. I feel like this movie has the main character do the opposite of growth.He actually becomes more immature compared to the last movie, which is saying something.

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