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[Lorrine Hatala]

Itshould be no surprise to anyone who plowed through the Godzilla franchise that All Monsters Attack is the nadir of the Godzilla movies, far worse than the 1998 Roland Emmerich Godzilla adaptation. At least that one has new footage, while All Monsters Attack repurposes scenes from past Godzilla films and posits the Monsters as imaginary creatures who are part of a film franchise instead of real ones.

See, when a movie is called Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, I expect it to be about Godzilla fighting Mechagodzilla, not Humans vs. B-characters from Planet of the Apes and King Caesar. Oh yes, humans fight against a race of aliens who are literal apes controlling Mechagodzilla, who sparsely appears in the movie.

Hey, they actually made a Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla movie. No B-characters from Planet of the Apes here, but one of the most emotional sequences this franchise has seen, where Miki Saegusa is forced to strike Godzilla through the Mechagodzilla armor but is overpowered by its aura that she ultimately uses telepathy to drive him away from the battle.

Funnily enough, this is the film Toho hates the most. So much so that they blacklisted director Yoshimitsu Banno from ever helming a Godzilla film again. Banno was in talks to direct a sequel, but producer Tomoyuki Tanaka hated Godzilla vs. Hedorah so much that he ultimately fired him.

Oh yes, the true Avengers: Endgame of Godzilla movies is my favorite of the franchise. It combines everything previous Godzilla films introduced to the extreme: Galaxy-brained stories, out-of-this-world fight scenes, a banger of a soundtrack, and riveting human tales.

The best way I can describe it is as follows: Godzilla, but make it a Cyberpunk masala action movie. It has flourishes of The Matrix, Star Wars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the maximalist grandeur of Bollywood all wrapped up into one glorious monster crossover package. They even bring back the 1998 Godzilla from the terrible Roland Emmerich film to NUKE IT INTO OBLIVION AFTER 30 SECONDS OF SCREEN TIME. 11/10. No notes.

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