Godzilla: The Planet Eater: A Final Flop To Close The Franchise...
Following Mechagodzilla City's destruction, Metphies expresses admiration for humanity, and the remaining Bilusaludo want Haruo to be brought to justice for foiling what they saw as necessary to defeat Godzilla, whilst the humans disagree, saying that they have exposed their true intentions of assimilating Earth. Following the argument, the Bilusaludos revolt and take over the Aratrum's engine room, cutting power to the ship and forcing it to run on secondary batteries, which can only last for two days....and all the while religious undertones are brewing, an ancient enemy is stirring, and an epic confrontation is imminent.
First of all this has to be the worst of the three(3) movies in the series. What the prequels succeeded in achieving, the 3rd installment successfully destroyed. The animation remained true to the original Netflix design, but the ascendency of Polygon pictures over Netflix unsurprisingly killed the movie.
The concept at first introduction appeared as brilliant as can be expected, there was going to be a multiplicity of conflict points to go with the concept we had all been waiting for. The conflict between Humans and the Bilusaludo(On the Aratrum), the conflict between the Exif & his followers vs Haruo, and ultimately, the intimidating presence of Godzilla, who lay dormant and ready to lay waste to humanity once more. This meant the plot was complex and if managed properly would have created a very rivetting story to watch.
Now that above was the expectation, in reality, the storyline was plain and simple, a little too simple we may even add. The plot was messy and jumbled and it ultimately lacked believability and relatability. If was poor, it was boring and above all it was devoid of creativity. It was so abysmal that I felt bemused when I found out the original writer returned to write the 3rd part.
Gen Urobuchi totally failed to captivate the audience, struggled to communicate the idea he had and even struggled to grasp the concept he even wanted to portray. He achieved all of this by making a movie lacking in good dialogues, totally despondent in action and combat scenes and above all, closing with the most anti-climactic endings of all time.
Personally, I had felt the decision to close the franchise out with King Ghidora rivalling Godzilla for dominance of earth was the 'factor' needed to sell this movie to the audience more than the previous two(2) movies in the franchise, but perhaps I was asking for too much as it was the total opposite. The appearance of King Ghidora was as iconic as we would have expected, but Ghidora 's duel with Godzilla was everything but iconic. At best it was like an Anaconda wrestling with a dead hog. Abysmal, disgusting and utterly ridiculous.
The concept at first introduction appeared as brilliant as can be expected, there was going to be a multiplicity of conflict points to go with the concept we had all been waiting for. The conflict between Humans and the Bilusaludo(On the Aratrum), the conflict between the Exif & his followers vs Haruo, and ultimately, the intimidating presence of Godzilla, who lay dormant and ready to lay waste to humanity once more. This meant the plot was complex and if managed properly would have created a very rivetting story to watch.
Now that above was the expectation, in reality, the storyline was plain and simple, a little too simple we may even add. The plot was messy and jumbled and it ultimately lacked believability and relatability. If was poor, it was boring and above all it was devoid of creativity. It was so abysmal that I felt bemused when I found out the original writer returned to write the 3rd part.
Gen Urobuchi totally failed to captivate the audience, struggled to communicate the idea he had and even struggled to grasp the concept he even wanted to portray. He achieved all of this by making a movie lacking in good dialogues, totally despondent in action and combat scenes and above all, closing with the most anti-climactic endings of all time.
Personally, I had felt the decision to close the franchise out with King Ghidora rivalling Godzilla for dominance of earth was the 'factor' needed to sell this movie to the audience more than the previous two(2) movies in the franchise, but perhaps I was asking for too much as it was the total opposite. The appearance of King Ghidora was as iconic as we would have expected, but Ghidora 's duel with Godzilla was everything but iconic. At best it was like an Anaconda wrestling with a dead hog. Abysmal, disgusting and utterly ridiculous.
We will conclude by saying that this is a movie that had so much potentials going into the tail ends of 2018. It just felt like it was going to be the type of animated movie that the year could end to...
It had poor scripting, poor conflict management, a confused and messy plot, it lacked believability and relatability, the pacing was absurdly slow, the combat, when there was one was static, drab and soggy with expenditure management, above all, the dialogue was nothing to write home about. We wouldn't even rate the movie average for Originality of concept, seeing as Ghidora is already explored territory. Perhaps, a positive nod for Ghidora character design? We think not! The chosen character concept sunk the movie deeper into the mires of decadence and near obscurity.
If you have not been tailing the franchise from the first 2 prequels, kindly refrain from touching this one even with a 50 foot pole. It's neither worth the time, the data or the concerted efforts at trying to decipher what the writer was doing. The movie lacked identity and came off as very confused, slow, boring and ridiculously poor. Every negative adjective I can think of belongs with this movie.
Directed by: Kobun Shizuno, Hiroyuki Seshita
Produced by: Takashi Yoshizawa
Written by: Gen Urobuchi
Starring:
Mamoru Miyano
Takahiro Sakurai
Tomokazu Sugita
Yuki Kaji
Music by
Takayuki Hattori
Production company: Polygon Pictures, Toho Animation
Distributed by: Toho Visual Entertainment(Japan), Netflix (Worldwide)
FCA'S AppR: 4.5/10
That rating technically means; stay the hell away from this one. Don't bother yourself, it just doesn't cut it.
Produced by: Takashi Yoshizawa
Written by: Gen Urobuchi
Starring:
Mamoru Miyano
Takahiro Sakurai
Tomokazu Sugita
Yuki Kaji
Music by
Takayuki Hattori
Production company: Polygon Pictures, Toho Animation
Distributed by: Toho Visual Entertainment(Japan), Netflix (Worldwide)
FCA'S AppR: 4.5/10
That rating technically means; stay the hell away from this one. Don't bother yourself, it just doesn't cut it.
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