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Seen on: 09/30/2011

  • Watched on: TV
  • Format: DVD

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Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth’s cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

Rated PG-13 | Length 125 minutes

Actors

Jun Kunimura | Kazuki Kitamura | Kenji Sahara | Akira Takarada | Kôichi Yamadera | Kumi Mizuno | Tak Sakaguchi | Akira Nakao | Kôichi Ueda | Kane Kosugi | Masakatsu Funaki | Don Frye | Masanobu Takashima | Masami Nagasawa | Masahiro Matsuoka | Rei Kikukawa | Maki Mizuno | Masatō Ibu | Yôji Tanaka | Reika Kirishima | Shigeru Izumiya | Chihiro Otsuka | Ray Sefo | Kenta Suga | Wataru Shihodo | Shuya Yoshimoto | Tsutomu Kitagawa | Motokuni Nakagawa | Naoko Kamio | Toshihiro Ogura | Kazuhiro Yoshida

Viewing Notes

This 50th anniversary effort from Toho is a mishmash of, and ode to, practically every Godzilla movie in the entire cannon (it even pokes fun at the shitty American Godzilla movie).

It doesn’t work all that well, to be honest, but there are some fun scenes, especially the ones involving American actor/stuntman Don Frye, who plays Douglas Gordon and looks a hell of a lot like Stalin in his military uniform.

Strange to say it, but the opening credits montage is also pretty damn cool, as is the fact that the movie opens with the old Tohoscope widescreen Toho logo.

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