Shonen anime is a genre that is primarily targeted towards teenage boys and is mostly action oriented. Plots typically feature black and white characters with no shades of grey, hot-headed males who scream "aaaaggghhhhhhhh" when fighting their enemies (think of Dragon Ball Z fight scene), one or two female characters that serve as a side-kicks for the lead male characters that sprout lines such as "I want to become stronger" and older characters who are shown to be indecisive, inept and/or corrupt. The overall theme for most works is that "hard work is good and the young generation is more 'visionary' and 'inspiring' than the older generation".
This is exactly what Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is all about. Featuring a paper-thin plot which would have taken the screenwriter less than two hours to write, one dimensional characters that sprout technical gabled jargon such as "asymmetric permeable shield" and "black hole formation probability is 440%" and predictible action sequences, this is easily an avoidable movie that will impress no one except possibly die hard Godzilla fans. All this is unfortunate since this comes from a director/screenwriter who in the past has made some terrific works that have been well recieved and been very influential within the anime industry.
Do yourself a favor - avoid this and save 90 minutes of your life for it is much too short to be wasted on trash like this.
This is exactly what Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is all about. Featuring a paper-thin plot which would have taken the screenwriter less than two hours to write, one dimensional characters that sprout technical gabled jargon such as "asymmetric permeable shield" and "black hole formation probability is 440%" and predictible action sequences, this is easily an avoidable movie that will impress no one except possibly die hard Godzilla fans. All this is unfortunate since this comes from a director/screenwriter who in the past has made some terrific works that have been well recieved and been very influential within the anime industry.
Do yourself a favor - avoid this and save 90 minutes of your life for it is much too short to be wasted on trash like this.