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So what if Hollywood tramples all over a Japanese film series. It's not as though they'd added scenes to Hamlet or King Lear. The Japanese film series about a giant dinosaur somehow reawakened by nuclear testing after millions of years ranks up there with the Lost in Space TV show for loony last-minute stream of consciousness scripting. BOTH were for kids, and, big surprise, this movie was not attempting to win any Nobel Prizes.
Hollywood's effort kept the nuclear origin of the monster to some extent, albeit in a Marvel Comics kind of way, apologized for the mispronouncing of the original name, Gojira, and killed Godzilla off in the end, just like in the first film (the only mainstream effort in the movie series).
While the photography was a little too dark for my taste, the action moved along pretty well, and for a dumb, special effects-laden popcorn movie, I had few complaints. I wasn't in the theater to learn particle physics, I was there to watch a big monster stomp through Manhattan.
The actors were mostly a minus, and the little moralistic drama and love story really put an anchor around the neck of the movie, but I guess the actors had to do something to keep their equity cards from expiring, unfortunately at the audience's expense. But if you rent this one, you can fast forward past the fluff.
I doubt that many kids were disappointed by this film. Adults should kind of try to be less naive, not everything is intended for your demographic, despite what the advertising agencies assigned the job of selling the film would have you believe.
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