Review of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003) by Maineutral R — 15 May 2014

After two incredible movies, Toho delivers something more accessible and less demanding, but entertaining and fun at least. Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S is probably the most simplistic movie of the monster. It practically features painted story and characters, and then delivers nearly an hour of monster fight, flashy effects, destruction and all the series' classic nods, but there's nothing to actually hold them.

The story is lazy: Mothra makes clear that he wants Godzilla's bones back to the sea. Meanwhile, Godzilla returns...and that's it, the rest is fighting and effects. I felt like they used only the first 10 pages of the script, and the rest was storyboarded to choreograph the fight scenes, and they got long in the tooth about it, then they said: here's the movie...pretty lazy. I was kinda disappointed, but not too much, after all, I already had two great Godzilla movies in a row, so I didn't expect to have three this time. Yet it is kinda bothering that they just made this to spend money on special effects and just follow the contract of making a Godzilla movie every year. Well, the movie is a huge monster madness and that makes it highly entertaining and fun to watch.

Tokyo S.O.S it's just OK, adds nothing new but we have Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla again, and that is always pleasant. Because it's very simple, there's really not much to say about this one. It isn't special, but it doesn't hurt to give it a watch. Not on the best of the franchise, but neither on the worst, plain and simple. Just one more, one more movie to end it all. See ya at the Final Wars.