Monster SeaFood Wars

It's with a heavy heart that I say Monster Seafood Wars is nowhere near as good as the other movies by Minoru Kawasaki that I've seen: Calamari Wrestler and Executive Koala. I feared with titles like that, those movies would be too good to be true. But they weren't too good to be true. They were just too good.

And maybe too good in a way that'll make the director's lesser films pale in comparison. Here, the plot is like a spoof of a kaiju movie, where three small sea creatures get made giant. Then they rampage around like smellier, wetter Godzillas. Then much of the movie becomes about producing these monsters to create more meat, to feet starving populations. Then it goes back to being an action kaiju vs men movie (it feels like Neon Genesis Evangelion at times, except with giant seafood instead of Angels).

It's not very good, and might well be unwatchable to most sane people. But I got some entertainment out of it, and there were a few decent laughs and goofy costumes to marvel at. But the mockumentary format added surprisingly little, and it wasn't as gleefully or consistently absurd as the aforementioned Calamari Wrestler and Executive Koala, which were just funnier and also more frequently funny throughout. Monster Seafood Wars needed to push a little harder a little more of the time to live up to those earlier films.