If you had questions about who they are - this nebulous entity that knows the locations of all the titans, and you didn’t see Kong - most of them get answered in this movie. Well, now you know what Tywin Lannister has been up to. He seems quite befuddled most of the time and he’s supposed to be with Monarch. Thomas Middleditch might be a bit wasted in his role. Couldn’t we have them work together? Bradley Whitford has some of the best laugh-out-loud lines. I got more than a little annoyed with them. What’s she doing there? What’s she looking for? The trope of estranged parents is getting old.
It’s one of the reasons you see a trailer where Brown’s character is watching roiling weather bear down on Fenway Park in Boston. One of the plot strings involves estranged parents Chandler and Farmiga. I teared up when one character says, in Japanese, “Goodbye, old friend.” I’m there for the destruction and the monsters - not to have my heart strings pulled. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say all the familiar faces don’t make it out alive. I have to admit, when it all came out - toward the middle of the second act of the movie - I was surprised. Why does Godzilla need to fight Ghidorah? That fight is probably the biggest part of the trailers. You could argue he’s a reference to the very first movie, but he was - in my opinion - superfluous. Other than looking all military and stern, his part could have been cut and his lines given to someone else. David Strathairn from the previous film is here, too, but he’s on screen for maybe 10 minutes. It’s important to go backwards and remind the audience what is at stake for characters played by Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Milly Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Zhang Ziyi, and Sally Hawkins. The movie starts in 2014 which gives it an anchor to the present. By the end of the movie, we’ve seen Ghidorah, Rhodan, Mothra, MUTOS - which were created for the 2014 movie - and several I don’t know. I’m going to have to do more research because I can’t name that many. The whole mythos surrounding Godzilla - from the first movie in 1954, to the recent Kong: Skull Island - is referenced here.
I’m going to write as “non-spoilerific” review as possible.
This is exactly what a Godzilla movie should do. Well, hold onto your soda and popcorn because Godzilla shows up in the first five minutes of the movie and essentially never leaves. Director Michael Dougherty stated on Twitter he was aware of this criticism and we would be seeing more of Godzilla in this movie. You don’t build the audience’s empathy for your title character when you don’t see him. One of the biggest criticism of 2014’s Godzilla was the king of the monsters himself getting only 8 minutes of screen time.
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