Godzilla: Final Wars

When I was but a small child, the Bad Movie Kid, if you will, one of the TV stations in the city I grew up in, would show movies in the afternoon. Now, this was waaayyyy before syndicated series took over most local TV, and about once every three or four month, my local station had a "Godzilla Week", a week long festival of every Godzilla movie that they could afford to show! It was a week when I would leave school, run past any and all friends who might be waiting on the playground and head directly for home! If I ran fast enough, I could get home, get all my snacks in place and be ready for the Godzilla movie of the day...and, it may have been the most exercise I actually got as a child.

Well, now, as an adult, I found myself wandering through Wal-Mart and what do I spot in the DVD section? You got it, a brand new Godzilla movie, Godzilla: Final Wars.



Supposedly the last Godzilla movie that Toho will produce for at least ten years, Godzilla: Final Wars is perhaps the best Godzilla movie I've seen in years...and yes, I've seen them all! Here's your basic story: In the future, aliens are attempting to take over Earth. Why? Because that's what movie aliens do! The aliens plan is to use all the giant monsters that Earth has defeated in the past, in cooridinated attacks to beat the citizens of the planet into submission. So, it's up to one group of mutants to travel to the North Pole, where Godzilla has been in cold storage, and revive the Big G to battle these monsters and, once again, save the planet!

Seems pretty simple, well, when it's a Godzilla movie it doesn't need to be too complex. This is Godzilla battling nearly every monster that he's fought in the past, at one point, Godzilla even takes on the crappy American Godzilla and beats him soundly! If you're a Godzilla fan, Final Wars is any Godzilla fans wet dream and it's a good movie if you're just a sci-fi fan. I'm giving Godzilla: Final Wars four cigars out of four because if this is the end of our giant lizardic friend, then it's a great way to go out, however, I figure that, as good as this movie is, there's bound to be an outcry for more...at least from me.

So, until next time, remember the reason that the Japanese are so much more effiecient than us, is that they've spent years rebuilding all that Godzilla damage until they've got engineering and construction down to an art form. And remember that the best movies are always bad movies!