A little review of Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, just my personal opinion, so if you like it, thats fine. Me, I really hated it. The monsters come off without any real personality, or are just too brutal to really care for. Godzilla, the one monster we should be super happy to see...first appearance he kills two kids, yeah they were annoying, but still! That doesnt make me like him! It paints him as the villain, though later he isnt suppose to be seen as such. Were suppose to cheer and be grateful for showing up, not be ohh...damn. This is the original black-and-white movie, and its not channeling the original either, since mostly its too goofy for that. Even Rodan gets in on the child killing. The fights were too sporadic, and off-kilter. Not well paneled or choreographed (in a drawing sense). The worst offense is that Godzilla fights King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla, a fight to really end any Godzilla story, one that should be fantastic and f*cking epic!!, and yet it was dull and anti-climatic, and gets swept aside for a fight with... Rodan of Battra? Really? I love them, but for sheer powerhouses and a big epic fight, they dont compare to either Ghidorah or Mechagodzilla. The worst part was the bad humour and vapid pop culture references. When Im reading a story with giant monsters (especially Godzilla!!) I dont want Lady Gaga and Obama references or such. It could have been handled better, representing how people react to what would happen if Kaiju just began to show up, destroying stuff, changing the economy and our worldviews but it wasnt. It was a joke, and a bad one at that. Its even worse when two survivors find the Lady Gaga characters corpse, and one isnt sure shes alive, so the other says why dont you poker face and have a good laugh...uh, I know this is a story about giant monsters, but can I have some semblance of realism? Not asking for a lot, like I said, what Im reading, I accept realism not being the name of the game, but come on! There is a dead body, and they laugh! And no one say people cope in different ways in cataclysms, I doubt the writer was thinking that at all.These two guys are crazy and possibly psychopaths...now wouldnt THERE be a story! Two killers roaming the destructive paths of giant monsters, killing survivors? Too dark for a Godzilla story, and yet, its still an idea to explain why they are laughing at a corpse!! So, I will admit to two things I actually liked about the comic. One was a line the Obama character said, when after nuking Godzilla, once he gained the ability to shoot his atomic ray, and a reporter suggested nuking him again, the Obama-esque guy mocks the reporter. It was the funniest part in the whole comic and made me laugh. The other part I enjoyed was halfway through the series (which is when it began to shift in actual quality) the story becomes about a soldier protecting a little girl whose parents got killed Godzilla. This was where the story began to shine to me, and show promise, and was beginning to get emotion from me. I wanted more of this! And what angers me more is instead of getting more of this, the time used to create drama and a good story was being used up for the references and bad jokes. Thats my review. I found the comic unnecessarily mean-spirited, cynical, and as if the writer only had a passing knowledge of the monsters he was writing about and made them even more ruthless than the original creations, unlikeable even. IDW got better with their series, ESPECIALLY Half-Century War which I personally believe to be the best written, drawn and all together best Godzilla comic ever made. Sorry about the length, just had to get that off my chest, so theres my two cents. Feel free to disagree or agree, Im not your boss lol Have a good one.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:12:00 +0000
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