By Dinosaur John from Needville Texas on 2/7/2008

As a life long film fan, a monster movie is destinguished as a film with a nonhuman creature in the lead,usually the title character.Sometimes it's the size of a human,like the Creature from the Black Lagoon,or Frankenstine. And then there are the titans The most famouse of these is Godzilla.This American version was to be the new Classic.The add campagn was a hoot. But the film was a general let down.
This was the biggest version of Big G. ever seen.Most expensive too.But even for a monster movie this monster was unbelievable. It was far too huge to run so fast.The helicopters pilots the worst shots in the universe. The design of the face,with it's chin jutting forward just made for a square,ugly,almost faceless thing.Which is a tragedy because the rest of the the body design is great!Suposedly it was created by atomic radiation saturating a tropical island full of lizards.A reptilian,dinosaurian face would have done a lot to make this Godzilla a member of the cast.There was no excuse for it.Half the best dino-artists in Hollywood turned in perfect designs.
Mathew Brodric was the one actor who seemed to fall into the spiret of the whole thing. Most of the time he was just called "The Worm Guy".This just made him that much more of a nerd,and,of course,the only guy who knows whats going on.He's fun. And that is the key to the whole movie. Put it on the big screen,bigger the better.Unwind for about 90 minuts. Watch it with the kids. No bad language. No blood. Some silly sub plots so you can watch amazingly tallented actors waste their tallents propping up the subplots.
Don't get me wrong. I liked this movie because of the shear spectacle of it.All of the ship wrecks and foot prints and other build up devices were perfect. All of the effects were flawless. This film is not about anything but a spectacular good time.
Too bad the monster didn't have a decent face.The cartoon series wasn't bad either.
Remember, I have a big screen TV, and I love monster movies.