Cloverfield can go suck his thumb, the king of all monsters is back

Rating: 8/10 (15 May 2014)

I am in the habit off saying that a movie should be reviewed on it's own merits and not affected by external influences. But it is with great regret I say that I was a huge fan of the Godzilla movies as a child. The amount of hours I spent watching Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla when I was 4 and 5 is more or less innumerable. I absolutely adored everything about the beast. And I despised everything about 98, American remake, which despite CGI and being set in New York was an insult to the Godzilla I had watched obliterating King Ghidorah and Destroyah. Fastfoward to 2014 and I was in the cinema with mixed expectations for the new adaption. It was a must watch, but I didn't know quite what I would think. So it was a huge surprise to me, when the movie took a turn from ''bland heroic effort for humanity to destroy monster ( read: Cloverfield, Pacific Rim ) '' into ''monster punchup ala classic Japanese movies and anime''. I totally was not expecting the movie to introduce other beasts than Godzilla, with massive appetite for destruction ( and nuclear waste ). So was the movie pleasing to me as a Godzilla fan? Well, the Godzilla parts was absolutely pleasing. When I heard the big guy roar at the top off his longues with his Godzilla roar, I was squeeling like a child on Christmas. If I would have been five years old, the scream would literally make me cry in happiness. This is however, the problem with the movie: As good work as Edward has done with much of the movie, most of the film is not about Godzilla. Most of his appearances is teasing and while it keeps you hungering for more, it doesn't keep your appetite wet. And that is courtesy to the cast off humans that try to make sense out of their circumstance and integrate the situation. Most of the characters do not quite feel like they a cog in the mechanism off the movie. They did for the first 30 minutes, where Ryan Cranston delivers with true charisma. However, the rest off the cast is sadly 2 dimensional and many off them could have died in the first five minutes without any change in sense really. It is of course, necessary with these human characters, otherwise we would get ''short attention span'' type off movie. Unfortunately, it is not pulled off very well and while it is clear that the human interactions are meant to make the movie ''the dark knight'' of Monster flicks, it just isn't very interesting.
But in sense, this is still the dark knight off monster flicks: the movie quickly catches up in an epic finale of monster clashing, that managed to maintain my massive throbbing erection. For that I am willing to forgive the movie for it's mistakes, whosever fault it is that the character development was poor, I am willing to forgive that, as long as it would in a potential sequel would managed to catch up. All-in-all, you can sort off say that this is a movie analogous to eating ferrero rocher dipped in wet paper. It's not a bad experience in any sense, it just makes more sense to buy your ferrer rocher at a different store.