Movie of the Week: Godzilla: Planet of Monstars
Alexa: I’ll be honest - I fell asleep during this movie, so I can only judge about the first two-thirds of it. But needless to say, it did not hold my interest. Anime is not my cup of tea, nor have I seen many Godzilla movies, so this movie was not made for me. If you do love one or both of those things, then I hope there is something for you here. But if you don’t, then this movie is probably not the thing that’s going to convert you into a fan. When I did fall asleep around an hour into this 90-minute movie, I had only seen Godzilla maybe once, which is very little Godzilla for a movie that’s supposedly about Godzilla. Maybe there was some action in those last 30 minutes that I missed, but I expected more throughout the rest of the movie. The lack of action wouldn’t bother me so much if the characters were interesting, but I found them underdeveloped and flat. It was just so. Dang. Slow. The animation was beautiful, and it was an intriguing enough concept for a reboot, but ...