The Lion King is another remake of a Disney animated classic this time 1994’s The Lion King gets this treatment and this time Jon Favreau takes the directors chair with a style similar to his 2016 version of the Jungle Book, the story however remains the same Simba (JD McReary and Donald Glover) is destined to be king but his evil uncle Scar (Chiewetel Ejiofor) plots to take the throne which sends Simba into exile but the once and future king cannot ignore his destiny forever.
This new version of the Lion King starts off very well and I mean very well with a recreation of the famous opening the Circle of Life that will get even the most hardened cynic of this version on board with it as it looks stunning with realistic animal animation and no dialogue and part of me did get very emotional during that opening recreation.
But as for the rest of the movie well here is where the problems begin as outside of that opening where the animals aren’t asked to emote in any way the rest of the movie requires this and you go from a stunning recreation to a miserable failure as in going for this very realistic style of animal animation it limits their ability to have expressive human like faces where they can properly emote like they can in the animated film and as a result you end up feeling very little while watching this movie.
And emotion was the name of the game when it comes to the 1994 original be it the songs like I Just Can’t Wait to Be King, Be Prepared or Can You Feel the Love Tonight? To the famous Wilderbeest Stampede to the Mufasa Cloud scene, one scene after another where you really feel this strong connection to these animals on the Savannah that is almost completely gone as there is zero expression on the faces and the voice actors have to do that much more work with their vocals.
And there is where I want to go next firstly James Earl Jones sounds flat this time as Mufasa and I hope he is in good health (He’s currently 88) but much like in Rogue One he was sounding also a little frail, Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner are okay as Timon and Pumbaa but they really just end up imitating Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella while Donald Glover is terrible as the older Simba just sounding bored the whole bloody time as if he’s above this voice over crap.
As for Ms Beyonce well I felt she was wasted as Nala, her role is barely expanded upon from the original film and again sounds flat while her song Spirit feels very out of place on the soundtrack and one of my big big concerns for this new version Mr Ejiofor as the new Scar is actually okay and certainly equips himself much better than Mr Kenzari did as the new Jafar in the recent Aladdin but also like Mr Kenzari he just cannot hold a candle to Jeremy Irons from the original.
And look this new version of the Lion King much like May’s Aladdin and the 2017 version of Beauty and the Beast are not bad movies but their also just very very very bland each and every one of them and look if you’re a fan your going to go and see this new version regardless and I won’t step in the way but its also just nowhere the original film and I hope neither of these live action remakes become the default versions, 2 out of 5.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Film Review - Stuber (2019)
Stuber stars Kumail Nanjiani as Stu, an Uber driver by night who also works at a Sporting Goods store, he likes to get 5 star ratings mainly to keep his driving job but one day he picks up Vic (Dave Bautista) who is on the trail of a Drug trafficker in LA but Stu gets caught up in the action and the chase is on.
Stuber is a fun movie, I had a good time while I was watching it and I did laugh a fair amount, firstly Mr Bautista and Mr Nanjiani have good chemistry and play off each other very well not only in terms of their comedy timing but also how they represent the various sides of manhood and how its expressed which I thought was a pretty interesting idea.
And also I really enjoyed seeing Ms Karen Gillan appear briefly in this movie but sadly it is all too brief and it’s a real shame as I love her as Nebula in the Marvel Studios movies and she deserves to have a large role in a movie outside of the makeup she wears as Nebula and also she does a great American accent.
But there are also times where the action and comedy elements don’t quite gel together, firstly the action at times is way too overedited to the point where it is hard to follow who is fighting who in the scenes and its disappointing because you want to see Dave fight in those scenes.
And secondly one of the jokes regarding his character doesn’t really work very well, it’s fun for about a scene or two but after multiple scenes I got a bit tired of it.
But that aside Stuber is a fun ride that’s worth taking and that’s my 3 star rating.
Stuber is a fun movie, I had a good time while I was watching it and I did laugh a fair amount, firstly Mr Bautista and Mr Nanjiani have good chemistry and play off each other very well not only in terms of their comedy timing but also how they represent the various sides of manhood and how its expressed which I thought was a pretty interesting idea.
And also I really enjoyed seeing Ms Karen Gillan appear briefly in this movie but sadly it is all too brief and it’s a real shame as I love her as Nebula in the Marvel Studios movies and she deserves to have a large role in a movie outside of the makeup she wears as Nebula and also she does a great American accent.
But there are also times where the action and comedy elements don’t quite gel together, firstly the action at times is way too overedited to the point where it is hard to follow who is fighting who in the scenes and its disappointing because you want to see Dave fight in those scenes.
And secondly one of the jokes regarding his character doesn’t really work very well, it’s fun for about a scene or two but after multiple scenes I got a bit tired of it.
But that aside Stuber is a fun ride that’s worth taking and that’s my 3 star rating.
Monday, July 1, 2019
Film Review - Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Spider-Man: Far From Home is the newest Marvel Studios production this time with Columbia Pictures instead of Walt Disney Pictures and is also the first movie to come after Avengers: Endgame where Peter Parker (Tom Holland) simply wants a nice Vacation after the events of the Thanos 2 parter where he can have fun, be with his chums and tell MJ (Zendaya) how he really feels about her, but when Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) calls on his help in regards to Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) he has to don the Spidey suit once again.
Far From Home is an okay movie for me, it’s one of those where I feel that it certainly isn’t bad but it’s also one where I’m not wanting to go out and rave about it like I did Endgame or Dragon Ball Super: Broly or Rocketman which are my top 3 of the year so far, no this one just swings the webs along nice enough and I was happy for the most part.
And a large part of that is down to Mr Gyllenhaal as Mysterio, this character is one of my favorite villains from the Spider-Man comics and the animated series from the 1990s and my dream casting for this role has been Bryan Brown mainly due to the 1986 movie FX Murder by Illusion where he played Rollie Tyler a Special Effects expert who goes on the run after a suspected murder goes bad but Jake does good justice to the character and a lot of the action sequences involving him were a lot of fun.
Also Mr Holland is now very comfortable playing Peter and Spider-Man and does a great job with both roles after his somewhat finding his feet on the cobweb performance he showed at times in Homecoming back in 2017, I enjoyed seeing Ms Angourie Rice who was very good in Ladies in Black an underrated movie from last year get a bigger role while Zendaya is much better this time around as MJ with some nice hints to her backstory from previous movies and the animated series.
But alas this movie has 2 big drawbacks for me:
- Firstly the film is simply too long, its about 2 hours and 10 minutes and there were times where the film dragged at that length for me, I think if it lost a good 10 to 15 minutes I probably would’ve enjoyed the film a fair bit more.
- And Secondly I really didn’t like a lot of the films humour, a lot of the timing just fell face first in the mud for me and the way the jokes play out in an editorial sense it just felt like they dragged on those gags for too long and it stopped being funny and I can tell to a certain extent when comedy doesn’t work very well for me and here it didn’t after a while and I got a bit sick of it at the end.
Lastly the 3rd act climax is pretty underwhelming now I won’t elaborate on that too much but I will say that it could’ve been a whole lot better and more visually inspiring.
And so that was Spider-Man: Far From Home and its okay, it’s a fun time but if it wasn’t for Mysterio being done really well I don’t think I would’ve liked it all that much in all honesty, 2 and a half out of 5.
Far From Home is an okay movie for me, it’s one of those where I feel that it certainly isn’t bad but it’s also one where I’m not wanting to go out and rave about it like I did Endgame or Dragon Ball Super: Broly or Rocketman which are my top 3 of the year so far, no this one just swings the webs along nice enough and I was happy for the most part.
And a large part of that is down to Mr Gyllenhaal as Mysterio, this character is one of my favorite villains from the Spider-Man comics and the animated series from the 1990s and my dream casting for this role has been Bryan Brown mainly due to the 1986 movie FX Murder by Illusion where he played Rollie Tyler a Special Effects expert who goes on the run after a suspected murder goes bad but Jake does good justice to the character and a lot of the action sequences involving him were a lot of fun.
Also Mr Holland is now very comfortable playing Peter and Spider-Man and does a great job with both roles after his somewhat finding his feet on the cobweb performance he showed at times in Homecoming back in 2017, I enjoyed seeing Ms Angourie Rice who was very good in Ladies in Black an underrated movie from last year get a bigger role while Zendaya is much better this time around as MJ with some nice hints to her backstory from previous movies and the animated series.
But alas this movie has 2 big drawbacks for me:
- Firstly the film is simply too long, its about 2 hours and 10 minutes and there were times where the film dragged at that length for me, I think if it lost a good 10 to 15 minutes I probably would’ve enjoyed the film a fair bit more.
- And Secondly I really didn’t like a lot of the films humour, a lot of the timing just fell face first in the mud for me and the way the jokes play out in an editorial sense it just felt like they dragged on those gags for too long and it stopped being funny and I can tell to a certain extent when comedy doesn’t work very well for me and here it didn’t after a while and I got a bit sick of it at the end.
Lastly the 3rd act climax is pretty underwhelming now I won’t elaborate on that too much but I will say that it could’ve been a whole lot better and more visually inspiring.
And so that was Spider-Man: Far From Home and its okay, it’s a fun time but if it wasn’t for Mysterio being done really well I don’t think I would’ve liked it all that much in all honesty, 2 and a half out of 5.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Film Review - Men in Black: International (2019)
Men in Black: International is the newest entry in the MIB franchise and the first without Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the film, this time Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are the new MIB agents in London who are tasked to track down a powerful weapon that could destroy the World courtesy of the Hive but their boss played by Liam Neeson could complicate matters.
Men in Black: International is boring to sit through, in fact it is the most boring movie I have sat through in cinemas so far this year and while I was sitting there watching it being projected in front of me I just got bored of the whole damn thing as so much of it just lands with this giant thud on screen.
Firstly Chris Hemsworth a man who is supremely talented, is charismatic as all hell and is a gifted comedy actor (his comedic timing is amongst the best in the business right now) and yet, and yet he is AWFUL in this, his comedy timing falls flat on its face, he constantly talks in an annoying way and his line readings just drag on and on and on some more and this is a man who can be great in movies be it Ron Howard’s criminally underrated Rush from 2013 or Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame and Thor: Ragnarok even, its just such a fucking waste of a magnetic talent.
Secondly Ms Thompson who also is very very charismatic actress is trying to do her best and seems to actually want to try unlike Chris who pretty much either gave up, couldn’t give it his all or just didn’t care enough well Ms Thompson does try and some of her charisma does shine through at times but for the most part it just feels like she’s in a fucking straight jacket instead of an MIB jacket for most of the movie and I just sat there thinking “Just let her out of the fucking straight jacket and then she can take over this goddamn movie” again just an awful waste of a promising future talent.
Thirdly the story here is very very weak, the Aliens which have been a real highlight of the previous 3 films in terms of what cool designs are we going to see on screen barely feature in this movie at all, there are hardly any Aliens in a goddamn Men in Black movie only the one new one Prawny voiced by Mr Kumail Nanjiani and he is fun in spots but he wasn’t enough there should have been more Aliens in this movie and as for the overall story again its so weak, it just plods along with little energy or comic invention and just plays out like an action film with a few laughs treated as a bloody afterthought.
And look I like F. Gary Gray fine enough as a filmmaker, Straight Outta Compton in 2015 was a terrific film but he was wrong, wrong, wrong and dead wrong even to direct this movie, where was someone who could direct comedy and handle the visual effects requirements in a way that doesn’t make you audience just think their watching someone on a bloody green screen stage with the effects work pasted on in post, they weren’t here and it shows.
And so that was Men in Black: International a movie that just bored me to no fucking end and it is easily one of my least favorite films of 2019 so far, .5 out of 5.
Men in Black: International is boring to sit through, in fact it is the most boring movie I have sat through in cinemas so far this year and while I was sitting there watching it being projected in front of me I just got bored of the whole damn thing as so much of it just lands with this giant thud on screen.
Firstly Chris Hemsworth a man who is supremely talented, is charismatic as all hell and is a gifted comedy actor (his comedic timing is amongst the best in the business right now) and yet, and yet he is AWFUL in this, his comedy timing falls flat on its face, he constantly talks in an annoying way and his line readings just drag on and on and on some more and this is a man who can be great in movies be it Ron Howard’s criminally underrated Rush from 2013 or Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame and Thor: Ragnarok even, its just such a fucking waste of a magnetic talent.
Secondly Ms Thompson who also is very very charismatic actress is trying to do her best and seems to actually want to try unlike Chris who pretty much either gave up, couldn’t give it his all or just didn’t care enough well Ms Thompson does try and some of her charisma does shine through at times but for the most part it just feels like she’s in a fucking straight jacket instead of an MIB jacket for most of the movie and I just sat there thinking “Just let her out of the fucking straight jacket and then she can take over this goddamn movie” again just an awful waste of a promising future talent.
Thirdly the story here is very very weak, the Aliens which have been a real highlight of the previous 3 films in terms of what cool designs are we going to see on screen barely feature in this movie at all, there are hardly any Aliens in a goddamn Men in Black movie only the one new one Prawny voiced by Mr Kumail Nanjiani and he is fun in spots but he wasn’t enough there should have been more Aliens in this movie and as for the overall story again its so weak, it just plods along with little energy or comic invention and just plays out like an action film with a few laughs treated as a bloody afterthought.
And look I like F. Gary Gray fine enough as a filmmaker, Straight Outta Compton in 2015 was a terrific film but he was wrong, wrong, wrong and dead wrong even to direct this movie, where was someone who could direct comedy and handle the visual effects requirements in a way that doesn’t make you audience just think their watching someone on a bloody green screen stage with the effects work pasted on in post, they weren’t here and it shows.
And so that was Men in Black: International a movie that just bored me to no fucking end and it is easily one of my least favorite films of 2019 so far, .5 out of 5.
Film Review - Toy Story 4 (2019)
Toy Story 4 is the newest in the series and once again sees Woody (Tom Hanks) and the gang adjusting to life at Bonnie’s house but one day when Bonnie does her Kindergarten orientation day she makes a new toy called Forky (Tony Hale) who dreams of freedom and the trash so when he escapes Bonnie’s family RV Woody goes to save him only to find his old friend Bo Peep (Annie Potts.)
Oh boy was I very sceptical about this movie as Toy Story 3 while having some minor setbacks was a great end to the film series and the Toy Story short Cartoons and TV Specials were a perfect continuation of the series and its characters in their new home with Bonnie but alas Pixar wants to clear its sequel list so we got one more movie but does it soar to Infinity and Beyond or is it clearly proof that this series should go sailing no more.
Well it is actually a bit of both as I have very mixed feelings on this movie which I will explain further.
Firstly to start with the positives the animation here is beautiful and there were times when I was sitting there watching the film and thinking to myself “Is this Real Life” as it looked so realistic that part of me was fooled into thinking it was live action, there’s one scene in particular with the rain that looked gorgeous and some of the night scenes with the carnival lights were great to look at as well.
Secondly some of the new characters in the film are good fun my favourites being Ducky and Bunny voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele and their timing is great and I could not believe it was Mr Peele in this movie as he’s made such a name for himself for his horror work like Get Out and most recently Us and that man has enormous talent in both shades of light and dark.
But alas I have to talk about my negatives with this movie and firstly I have to talk about the storytelling in this 4th film as it didn’t really grab me very much, every time I’ve watched the first 3 I’ve felt a strong emotional investment in each of them in terms of both their storytelling and characters be it Woody and Buzz’s dynamic in the first film to Jessie’s arc in the second film or the overall “This is the end” feeling to the third film.
Here that just wasn’t the case sure I was watching what I was seeing being projected in front of me but I just didn’t quite feel that same involvement emotionally be it that sense of the journey or wanting to laugh along with the characters or wanting to cry which the end of the third film makes me do every single time I watch it I just didn’t feel all that moved by it very much nor did I feel any kind of strong emotion while watching it.
Also as much as I like Ducky and Bunny the new characters which were a real highlight of the second and third film whether its Jessie, Bullseye, Stinky Pete and Evil Emperor Zurg in the second film or Lotso Hugging Bear, Ken, Trixie, Buttercup, Mr Pricklepants and Big Baby in the third film didn’t really register much for me, Forky barely has any screen time in the film save for a few lines in the beginning and then a few scenes in the third act he virtually disappears in the second act and he’s meant to be the chief new toy in Bonnie’s life and the central figure of this new film.
Also Duke Caboom voiced by Keanu Reeves has some fun gags but didn’t really do an awful lot for me either and Gabby Gaby voiced by Ms Christina Hendricks feels like a very weak villain to me now Toy Story villains are hard to do as every aspect that could be explored has been explored with the villains in the other films but here I just didn’t really get into this villain much.
And so that was Toy Story 4 and save for some nice animation and Ducky and Bunny I didn’t really get into this new movie all that much I felt the story was weak, most of the new characters barely registered for me and the villain felt anticlimactic, 2 and a half out of 5.
Oh boy was I very sceptical about this movie as Toy Story 3 while having some minor setbacks was a great end to the film series and the Toy Story short Cartoons and TV Specials were a perfect continuation of the series and its characters in their new home with Bonnie but alas Pixar wants to clear its sequel list so we got one more movie but does it soar to Infinity and Beyond or is it clearly proof that this series should go sailing no more.
Well it is actually a bit of both as I have very mixed feelings on this movie which I will explain further.
Firstly to start with the positives the animation here is beautiful and there were times when I was sitting there watching the film and thinking to myself “Is this Real Life” as it looked so realistic that part of me was fooled into thinking it was live action, there’s one scene in particular with the rain that looked gorgeous and some of the night scenes with the carnival lights were great to look at as well.
Secondly some of the new characters in the film are good fun my favourites being Ducky and Bunny voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele and their timing is great and I could not believe it was Mr Peele in this movie as he’s made such a name for himself for his horror work like Get Out and most recently Us and that man has enormous talent in both shades of light and dark.
But alas I have to talk about my negatives with this movie and firstly I have to talk about the storytelling in this 4th film as it didn’t really grab me very much, every time I’ve watched the first 3 I’ve felt a strong emotional investment in each of them in terms of both their storytelling and characters be it Woody and Buzz’s dynamic in the first film to Jessie’s arc in the second film or the overall “This is the end” feeling to the third film.
Here that just wasn’t the case sure I was watching what I was seeing being projected in front of me but I just didn’t quite feel that same involvement emotionally be it that sense of the journey or wanting to laugh along with the characters or wanting to cry which the end of the third film makes me do every single time I watch it I just didn’t feel all that moved by it very much nor did I feel any kind of strong emotion while watching it.
Also as much as I like Ducky and Bunny the new characters which were a real highlight of the second and third film whether its Jessie, Bullseye, Stinky Pete and Evil Emperor Zurg in the second film or Lotso Hugging Bear, Ken, Trixie, Buttercup, Mr Pricklepants and Big Baby in the third film didn’t really register much for me, Forky barely has any screen time in the film save for a few lines in the beginning and then a few scenes in the third act he virtually disappears in the second act and he’s meant to be the chief new toy in Bonnie’s life and the central figure of this new film.
Also Duke Caboom voiced by Keanu Reeves has some fun gags but didn’t really do an awful lot for me either and Gabby Gaby voiced by Ms Christina Hendricks feels like a very weak villain to me now Toy Story villains are hard to do as every aspect that could be explored has been explored with the villains in the other films but here I just didn’t really get into this villain much.
And so that was Toy Story 4 and save for some nice animation and Ducky and Bunny I didn’t really get into this new movie all that much I felt the story was weak, most of the new characters barely registered for me and the villain felt anticlimactic, 2 and a half out of 5.
Film Review - Childs Play (2019)
Childs Play is the remake of the 1988 original and this time Mark Hamill is the voice of Chucky the Doll who in this version is also known as Buddi, a doll that like Google Home and Alexa can tap into your home environment so when Andy (Gabrielle Bateman) gets one from his mother (Aubrey Plaza) little do they know that its safeguards have been removed.
This new Childs Play I originally had little to no interest in seeing as I wasn’t a huge fan of the original film, I thought it was fine enough but really just another horror film but when it was announced that Mr Hamill was going to voice Chucky this time around I instantly had a change of heart and wanted to see this movie.
And I am very glad I did as I had a great time watching it in the cinema on a dark Friday night and firstly Bear McCreary’s Score is really good and adds a lot to the atmosphere and tension of the movie plus the Buddi song that plays throughout the film is a lot of fun and great to listen to.
Also the films performances are also very good, young Mr Bateman is very good as Andy and throughout the film when he was on screen I was reminded a little bit of Eddie Furlong from Terminator 2, Ms Plaza is also good as Andy’s Mum while Brian Tyree Henry is also good as the police detective who lives down the hall.
But the show stealer here is Mr Hamill, his voice work switches from being friendly like “Your my Best Friend” to evil and “If they don’t let us play, they all go away” on a dime and its great to watch and listen to and it put a big smile on my face as it felt like I could have fun watching a horror film character much like I did James McAvoy in Split and Glass whereas I feel with a lot of horror films these days its hard to have that dark twisted fun with them as they either go for the endless quick cuts, loud noises and jump scares and/or take themselves so seriously that I just get bored with them.
And lastly the film has some great horror violence kills, the film is rated MA15+ here in Australia for a reason and there is plenty of tense and bloody violence that again really appealed to me and thankfully I wasn’t having to sit through these endless quick cuts, jump scares and loud noises on the sound mix, there’s proper buildup and tension to the kills here and it makes a big difference at least for me.
And so that was Childs Play and if you had said to me at the beginning of 2019 that this would be one of the most fun times I had at a cinema this year I would’ve said “Yeah Right” but here we are, 3 and a half out of 5.
This new Childs Play I originally had little to no interest in seeing as I wasn’t a huge fan of the original film, I thought it was fine enough but really just another horror film but when it was announced that Mr Hamill was going to voice Chucky this time around I instantly had a change of heart and wanted to see this movie.
And I am very glad I did as I had a great time watching it in the cinema on a dark Friday night and firstly Bear McCreary’s Score is really good and adds a lot to the atmosphere and tension of the movie plus the Buddi song that plays throughout the film is a lot of fun and great to listen to.
Also the films performances are also very good, young Mr Bateman is very good as Andy and throughout the film when he was on screen I was reminded a little bit of Eddie Furlong from Terminator 2, Ms Plaza is also good as Andy’s Mum while Brian Tyree Henry is also good as the police detective who lives down the hall.
But the show stealer here is Mr Hamill, his voice work switches from being friendly like “Your my Best Friend” to evil and “If they don’t let us play, they all go away” on a dime and its great to watch and listen to and it put a big smile on my face as it felt like I could have fun watching a horror film character much like I did James McAvoy in Split and Glass whereas I feel with a lot of horror films these days its hard to have that dark twisted fun with them as they either go for the endless quick cuts, loud noises and jump scares and/or take themselves so seriously that I just get bored with them.
And lastly the film has some great horror violence kills, the film is rated MA15+ here in Australia for a reason and there is plenty of tense and bloody violence that again really appealed to me and thankfully I wasn’t having to sit through these endless quick cuts, jump scares and loud noises on the sound mix, there’s proper buildup and tension to the kills here and it makes a big difference at least for me.
And so that was Childs Play and if you had said to me at the beginning of 2019 that this would be one of the most fun times I had at a cinema this year I would’ve said “Yeah Right” but here we are, 3 and a half out of 5.
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Film Review - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Godzilla: King of the Monsters is directed by Mike Doughtery who directed Krampus back in 2014 and was a writer on X-Men 2 and Superman Returns and the story here concerns a machine called the Orca which has the audio of every known Titan to exist and when the Titans do rise and wreak havoc on the world Godzilla must now re-emerge to assert his place as King.
Godzilla is not a bad movie to watch but it was also one that I felt was very meh and very forgettable but before I delve more into those aspects of the film I want to first touch on the positives and first and foremost the monster battles in this movie are a lot of fun whether its Godzilla roaring and breathing fire or King Gidorah and its 3 heads (“Will you forget the Head Slicing Thing” from Hercules came to mind when I watching his fights) or Mothra with her graceful beauty or Rodan the fire god these creatures really get to strut their stuff in a very large scale way and I really enjoyed that aspect of the film.
I also enjoyed Bradley Whitford’s performance as one of the Scientists in the movie but here is where I will delve more into the negatives and first and foremost comes the screenplay, a lot of it feels very clunky in terms of its storytelling and characters, the character motivations seem to change from one subplot to the next, a lot of the human characters feel very underwritten as if the screenwriters (and Mr Doughtery is one of them) didn’t really know what to do with a lot of them but had to do something with them to keep the budget down and minimise the monster fights within an affordable price tag.
And this movie boasts a great cast aside from Mr Whitford, you have Sally Hawkins, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown (who really looks like a young Ms Farmiga), Charles Dance and Ken Watanabe and almost all of them are wasted with little to nothing roles and while I was watching them I just kept getting the “Aww man not them” feelings as their roles just felt so flat and meaningless after a while and it’s a real shame.
And that was Godzilla: King of the Monsters and its not a bad movie just for me a very meh and forgettable one, 2 out of 5.
Godzilla is not a bad movie to watch but it was also one that I felt was very meh and very forgettable but before I delve more into those aspects of the film I want to first touch on the positives and first and foremost the monster battles in this movie are a lot of fun whether its Godzilla roaring and breathing fire or King Gidorah and its 3 heads (“Will you forget the Head Slicing Thing” from Hercules came to mind when I watching his fights) or Mothra with her graceful beauty or Rodan the fire god these creatures really get to strut their stuff in a very large scale way and I really enjoyed that aspect of the film.
I also enjoyed Bradley Whitford’s performance as one of the Scientists in the movie but here is where I will delve more into the negatives and first and foremost comes the screenplay, a lot of it feels very clunky in terms of its storytelling and characters, the character motivations seem to change from one subplot to the next, a lot of the human characters feel very underwritten as if the screenwriters (and Mr Doughtery is one of them) didn’t really know what to do with a lot of them but had to do something with them to keep the budget down and minimise the monster fights within an affordable price tag.
And this movie boasts a great cast aside from Mr Whitford, you have Sally Hawkins, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown (who really looks like a young Ms Farmiga), Charles Dance and Ken Watanabe and almost all of them are wasted with little to nothing roles and while I was watching them I just kept getting the “Aww man not them” feelings as their roles just felt so flat and meaningless after a while and it’s a real shame.
And that was Godzilla: King of the Monsters and its not a bad movie just for me a very meh and forgettable one, 2 out of 5.
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