Review by Hiair

When exactly everyone lowered their basic standards to underground levels? Tell Bryan Cranston's dying wife that the world will be safe because a giant super hero monkey with a transformers arm will team up with a caped crusder lizard to kung fu fight monsters, and the earth is hollow and has a giant monkey city in it, then come back and tell me how well that fits together as part of the same "universe". "Monkey hits lizard, good , don't say otherwise or me throw poop at you!" If that's your level of intelligence you will love it, but don't watch it or you will get worse. Please don't defend this movie by asking us to "TURN OUR BRAIN OFF", if that's your defense you already lost the deabate, why don't you ask the writers to turn their brain on? "FUN" is not synonymous of "STUPID", it wasn't, it doesn't have to be, and we already passed that, oh that's right "-1" wasn't Hollywood... here we go again... OF COURSE ITS FAIR TO COMPARE IT WITH "-1", every movie with dinosaurs is still compared to Jurassic Park, people can compare it with Barbie or the Smurfs if they want, but this one doesn't even stand a comparison with GODZILLA 2014 which is part of the NOT MARVEL "universe" it belongs, and its the one has to be mandatory compared to. Don't turn off your brain for Hollywood again, enough is enough. This movie is to GODZILLA 2014 what BATMAN AND ROBIN was to BATMAN 1989 AND BATMAN RETURNS or what Moonraker was to James Bond. They started as something believable and serious and someone else turned them later into goofy cartoons. Being a fan of GODZILLA and tokusatsu cinema and tv doesn't mean that I cannot distinguish quality from trash, and as a healthy fan I always want QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY, I don't consume and blindly deffend everything because it says "Godzilla" on it. Yes, the Showa era exists, Toho is embarrased of it, any fan knows that, do you? They consider it as the lowest point of the franchise and that's why Godzilla has never been that goofy; at least in Japan, ever since. BUT This is NOT a Showa era Godzilla movie, its supposed ti part of the serious american Godzilla 2014 version, which exists because the American 1998 version was so terrible and goofy that they decided to scratch all sequels and reboot it in a serious direction with the 2014 version. But 1998's was more believable than this new one, why is 1998 not equaly praised? The Showa era; as goofy as it was, was its OWN thing(mess) separatted from the original's canon, Godzilla has been reseted in Japan at least 3 times, but this ultra goofy american cartoon is NOT its own thing, it is supposed to be a CONTINUATION of a movie where Bryan Cranston, crying with a broken soul, had to sacrifice his wife and colleagues to save the city and his son, and he had to say goodbye while she was dying in front of him, a movie where they tried to give weight and REALISM to a creature of more than 300m height and thousands of tons in weight, where they tried to put on screen the consequences of its destruction and existence in the REAL world. That was the selling point, realism, that was what was promised to the fans, it delivered that promise but not as well as GODZILLA-1 did, yet it was a stept on the right direction, how did we get from that 2014 movie to this? How is that a progress? Goofy movies are fun and have their space in cinema, a bigger place than what they deserve, no doubt of that, I love "so bad are good movies" as much as the next man BUT.....BUT.....but I repeat, that is when they ARE THEIR OWN THING and not a continuation of something that was relatively realistic and serious. And this one goes an extra mille triplying down with stupidity which makes it insulting to even kids intellligence. After so many times complaining about studios telling us to "turn off our brain" when did you, the raging fans decided to obey and celebrate that? Have some integrity! GODZILLA-1 and everything from Nolan prove that movies can be intelligent and entertaining at the same time again, no excuse! Specially GODZILLA-1 reminded us 4 important things: 1 - You can have an intelligent, engaging, and even inspiring story and visual spectacle at the same time. Thay they cannot exist together is an old lazy writers' lie.

2 - People do like human characters, when they are well writen and important for the plot. These movies dont work without them, they are the ones that suffer the consequences of the destruction and as the audirnce we need that.

3 - Millions of dollars on visual efects are worth nothing if points 1 and 2 are not checked.

4 - Not everything has to ripp off of MARVEL.

If you are a filmmaker who loves bad dumb movies create your own franchise and quit destroying others with continuations that are not even part of the same genre! Does Jar Jar Binks fits in The Godfather's "universe" (everything has to be called a universe now, thanks to Marvel)? Cake on face jokes? I didn't think so neither.

IF you as most fans have complained of movies for being shallow, dumb and for treating the audience as "stupid cattle", but you deffend this movie precisely for being all that, don't you dare to trash Batman and Robin, Transformers, anything from Michael Bay, Uwe Boll, Fast and Furious, Jurassic World, sharknado, Birdemic, The Room, again, because that's called DOUBLE STANDARDS. TURN YOUR BRAIN BACK ON. This movie is terrible and that's NOT A GOOD THING.