The fiftieth anniversary film breathes new life into the hugely popular Godzilla saga by resuscitating the iconic monster for this new era. This time, instead of battling within the species, humanity must fend off the scourge of kaijus, mutant humans equipped with outrageous powers with which they can destroy the world. For the sake of survival, earthlings must band together to create the M kikan task force, designed to protect the human race. Gojira : Fainaru Uozu ranks second best in the Godzilla series, only defeated by the original. When the third Godzilla series began to get worse and worse with each new entry, I was incredibly worried about this movie - after all, it is for the 50th anniversary. Luckily, my fears were dispelled when I finally saw the film. Also this film brought back a lot of the monsters in the original series and featured a new monster entitled Monster X (a. k. a. Keizer Ghidorah.) Gojira : Fainaru Uozu is the 28th and final movie in the saga and has not only aliens, but mutants and kiesers as well. Basically, this another Destroy All Monsters-type film, only this is way better. Besides the large amount of Japanese monsters, there is a brief cameo by the American Godzilla. He is referred to in this movie as the "tuna eating lizard" is no match for the Japanese Godzilla, (or as some might say it, the real thing) and simply gets nuked by the atomic ray. Then afterwards the alien kingpin says that the monster is useless - an obvious joke to make fun of how bad the monster is. Also, Minilla, unfortunately, appears in the film, but luckily, he has a small role. Now, not only does the movie focus on the monsters, which seam to no match for Godzilla, with the exception for Monster X, but it also does great character development for the non-monster characters. I especially liked one non-monster character named Ozaki, a member of Organization M, and actually cared if he lived or died, which is always nice. There was a lot of Matrix-style fighting, which was really cool. Basically, to sum everything up, this is the ultimate Godzilla film right after the original. There's no denying that. This movie has a great mix of monster footage and non-monster drama. Only this film and the original have any quality to them. Finally, this film was a lot more graphic than most of the saga thus earning it a "PG13" rating. Gojira : Fainaru Uozu was one of the few Godzilla films to to show bloody bodies. It's also unique in style to the saga. In 2004, for his fiftieth anniversary, Godzilla was given a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
