Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters Dubbed Film Review

When people think of the Godzilla films they usually just think of the live action films and nothing more then that which is something that really does make sense as there are quite alot of live action Godzilla films out there. However there really are also some animated Godzilla films out there as well and those films really do deserve to be talked about just as much as the live action films are really regardless of there quality and so then join me as I review the film that saw the king of monsters make his animated feature film debut with the film in question being called simply just "Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters" enjoy.

The plot of this film is several thousands years after humans abandoned Earth after it was attacked by Godzilla a small ragtag group of humans return and land on the planet hoping to take it back from the king of the monsters. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this films plot really isn't all that good either as while the concept is a good idea where that idea fails is in it's execution as this films plot is at best wafer thin with it just coming and going as and when it pleases with the plot of this film also being really underdeveloped and not being all that well thought out with the film just relying on it's concept to make it's plot to seem interesting instead of actually giving us a good and well thought out plot and yet when the plot does get good it just comes across as being fan service as all there doing are referencing things and creatures from both previous Godzilla movies and the other two Godzilla animated movies which is great for those movies but at the same time it does nothing for the plot of this movie either with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Chris Niosi as Haruo Sakaki , Lucien Dodge as Metphies and Edward Bosco as Martin Lazzari. Also starring in this film is Jamieson Price as Mulu Elu Galu Gu , Rich Brown as Rilu-Elu Belu-be , Cristina Vee as Yuko Tani , Robbie Daymond as Adam Bindewald , Ray Chase as Eliott Leland , Keith Silverstein as Unberto Mori , Doug Stone as Halu-Elu Dolu-do and Joe Ochman as Endurphe.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. Which isn't really something that's all that surprising as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors and have proven that time and time again in various projects but alot of them just come across as either being wooden or horribly miscast with it seeming like that the producers of this films dub were casting these actors on name recognition alone and there for didn't bother to have them audition because if they did then they would have cast this movie alot more differently as Lucien Dodge doesn't make for a good Metphies and Edward Bosco makes for a dull Martin Lazzari with each actor being better suited for the others role and while Cristina Vee is a good voice actor here she's just not given all that much to do and so she feels like she there just for the sake of being there and not really because of the fact that her character actually adds anything to the plot of this film with the actual acting in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Polygon Pictures. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films animation being alot better then what it really had any right to be as with 3D CGI anime the end animation is very usually a mixed bag 'with it not really being something that audiences want and yet with this film it looks terrific and it more then holds up over seven years later with this film animation looking just as good as anything that PIXAR has put out recently as here you can tell that there was a lot of effort into making the king of monsters animated feature film debut look as good as it really could have been and while the film really doesn't take as full advantage of the fact that it's an animated film that doesn't change the fact that when we get to see something look truly wonderful with even Godzilla himself looking really good in animation and while yes there are alot of truly nice looking things in this films animation that doesn't mean that the animation is perfect because it's not as there are a few shots early on in the film that do look kind of rough almost as if the animators just ran out of time to work on them and that kind of thing does lower the animation quality down just a little bit.

While the human characters in the live action Godzilla films are never the most interesting part of any Godzilla film. They do at least have more then one emotion which is sadly not the case for this films lead character Haruo Sakaki whose only emotion in this film is that of anger which is something that does make sense for the film but at the same time tho he's meant to be the main character of this film and yet the film gives no reason to care for him but it gives us plenty of reasons to hate him which makes him come across as being a really unlikable character and while this film is a story told over the curse of three films and so he does learn to soften up a bit over those two other films there should have been more of an effort put into making him a more likable character in this film as he is the one that we're going to be spending alot of time with over the course of this trilogy and there making him a more likable but edgy character would make sense but what doesn't make sense is making him someone who you can't stand to be around because of the fact that he could snap at you at any moment if you so much as looked him wrong with the rest of the characters also just having one emotion which makes them seem like after thoughts and as we're meant to be spending quite alot of time with these characters there should have been more of an effort into making them all more fully formed as characters and into giving us the audience a chance to actually like them rather then hating if not all of them then at the vert least most of them.

For some strange reason the makers of this film thought that it was a good idea to copy what Godzilla 2014 did and spend alot of the time with the films human characters. While yes granted films like both Godzilla Minus One and even Shin Godzilla also do that but they also knew to spend just as much time with Godzilla as he's the one that people are actually paying to see and yet in this film Godzilla doesn't get that much screen time and he's the title character which makes him feel like a side character in his own story and heck the plot of the film even revolves around him and while this does allow for the film to showcase it's truly stunning backgrounds it also means that we have to spend alot more time with some really unlikable character when it would have been far better if they got to the Godzilla stuff alot more sooner as it takes a good while for Godzilla to show up when the humans land back on earth and while yes we do get to see alot of him in flashback scenes in those scenes he's quite literally a still image for the most part apart from the scene where it's strongly implied that he killed Haruo's parents but that's not what we want to see from Godzilla we want to see him blowing stuff up and causing chaos and yet it takes a good while for us to actually get to that which is something that does bog this film down quite a it as we are forced to watch alot of boring and pointless scenes that go nowhere and add nothing to the overall plot of the film.

To give this film some credit it does look very visually stunning and the fact that the story is something new even to the Godzilla franchise is to be admired. However at the same time tho this film does feel like a waste of a good idea as the idea of having humans loose the earth to Godzilla and then return years later to try and take it back from him is a really solid idea but the film doesn't go all the way with it's idea as the film is instead more focused on setting up things that won't pay off until either the second or third films in this trilogy which makes this film feel alot more like an extended trailer for those films when alot more time really should have been spent on developing this films ideas and having alot of the scenes from earlier on in the film like the death of Haruo's grandfather play apart of who he is as a character instead of him barely even mentioning that someone who looked after him for TWENTY PLUS YEARS has just been killed right infront of him as that then would be an interesting angle to take that character in and while yes the film does have some entertainment value when it gets to the stuff with Godzilla you still have to sit through alot of painfully long and boring scenes with the characters just sitting and talking and that's not something that you want a film is as short as this one is as every single scene needs to be advancing the plot and advancing the characters and that mean getting rid of all of the stuff that makes the film dull and boring and instead get to the stuff that people want to see and even expect to see in a Godzilla film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty eight minuets and thirty seconds. Which is a really solid running time for this film to have as alot of the later sixties and seventies Godzilla films did have very similar running times or this film to have and while this film really does have more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time this films story really should have been wrapped up in one film as the film only has enough plot for one film let alone and entire trilogy of films and while the film does make as a good a use of it's running time that it really could have due this is film that really should have been a lot longer as then it would have been able to have the characters get the development that they really did need it and would hopefully allow them to be more likable characters but at the same time tho it would mean sitting through more boring scene after boring scene with nothing actually happening to advance the actual plot of the film which is something that could've only have been fixed with a re-write of the films script and not something that could've been fixed with adding more time to the film as that would only make those issues bigger as now we'd be forced to focus in on them alot more and while yes this film does indeed get exciting it's also film that doesn't know when to cut down on the boring and pointless scenes either as those are scenes that really do bog this film by quite a bit and can at times make this film feel like it's not only a chore to sit through but also feel like that it's quite alot longer then what it actually is but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As it's during this films action that the film not only gets to be really exciting but also shows some promise as it shows us that the human characters actually have to try and work together to even get close to damaging Godzilla where as he can just stand on them and swat away whatever being fired at him like there flies which was an interesting angle to take as it's something that we the audience really haven't seen before in a Godzilla film as alot of the time we just get Godzilla smashing down buildings and that's really and that's great but it's not something that can be done with this film and so we have to get something new and creative from this films action as they can't even show us Godzilla fighting another monster either and what we get out of it whilst it might not be the best action in this franchise it is still some really entertaining and it's something that does take as full advantage of the fact that it's an animated film by doing camera moves that would be impossible to do in live action which might be a small thing but it's something that really does go along way to making this films action as entertaining as it really could have been as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this entire Godzilla anime film trilogy might not be the best of Godzilla media out there it's still alot better then the 1998 American Godzilla film but this is a film that also really could have been alot better then what we really ended up with as the concept alone was more the enough to make the film work and yet for some strange reason this film really just doesn't work at all in anyway whatsoever in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as being as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys an#d girls and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Godzilla fandom wiki page and Wikizilla. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great Wikizilla really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Wikizilla are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Skull Island TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

 

The Monsterverse is a cinematic universe that alot of people seem to have forgotten about with their being no new entries since 2021. Well now it's back with it;s first animated TV series rather rightfully starring a really iconic and very popular monster and well as somebody who has quite literally seen every single film in the Monsterverse multiple times and so you all just knew that I had to check this show out and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that sets out to explore the mysteries of Skull Island with the show in question being called simply just "Skull Island" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when a family , their friend , a stranger and group of mercenaries wash up on Skull Island they have to find a way of off the island before one of the islands many monsters finds and kills them all. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad with this shows plot being a bit of a slow burn but also being rather enjoyable and engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Nicolas Cantu as Charlie , voice acting acting legend Mae Whitman as Annie , Darren Barnett as Mike and Benjamin Bratt as Cap. Also starring in this show is Betty Gilpin as Irene , voice acting acting legend Phil LaMarr as Sam and Fryda Wolff as Island Girl. There are more actors and actresses in this show however I cannot find a complete cast list for this show anywhere online and so I really can't credit every single person who is starring in this show despite this show having some pretty big voice acting talent.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. Which given this shows voice cast isn't all that surprising as this show really does have some really talented voice actors working on it and so then it only makes sense that they would turn in some really good performances in this show.

Doing the animation for this show is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Powerhouse Animation Studios Studio Jangdokdae , Studio Mir and Studio Nine Lives. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with the shows animation having the same inspired anime look to it that Castlevania had to it's show as well and it's something that really does both work well for and look good in this show.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!

I have to admit that it's really hard for me to work out where in the Monsterverse timeline this show is meant to take place as if it's sets before Kong: Skull Island then the sea creature that attacks this shows cast should have also have attacked the cast of Kong: Skull Island. The only thing that I know for sure is that this film does take place before the events of Godzilla Vs Kong which gives us a whole long time for this show to take place as there really is a large that this show could possibly take place in and that might also mean that we shouldn't expect this show to reference things from the movies or to set up things for future movies.

What I really didn't like about hi show or at the very least these first batch of episodes is the fact that they really hold off on showing Kong. It takes two and half episodes just to get a tiny glimpse of the king of Skull Island and even then he doesn't do anything that's all that meaningful he just shows up scares an alligator away and that's it and then he doesn't really show up again until episode four this is a King Kong themed show that shockingly has very little King Kong in it with the show instead focusing on it's human cast of characters.

This wouldn't be an issue if alot of us are coming to see the human characters but we're not as lot people myself included are coming to this show to watch King Kong. However I will admit that while King Kong does feel alot more like a side character in his show a few of the human characters are very enjoyable like Annie for example always managed to get a chuckle out of me as she's someone who chose to stay on Skull Island when she was very young and so has grown up on the island which does lead to some pretty fun and funny conversations with best friends Charlie and Mike who are trying to get of off Skull Island.

Now then each of this episode of this show has / had an exact grand total running of no longer then thirty minuets. With this first batch of episodes being eight episodes long and I will admit that this show really is suited to the twenty five minuet running time as this show has more then enough story to cover that amount of running time and if you really wanted to binge watch this entire batch of episodes it should only take you at very least two and a half to maybe three hours and this show is really helped by the fact that it has some really good pacing in alot of it's episodes. 

So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty not that bad. As the shows action is pretty fun to watch when Kong is fighting over monsters but alot of the time all the action in this show mainly consists of is the human characters running away from a monster and there's only so long that you can watch that before it gets dull and boring which sadly for this show is really quite quickly and that really does bring down the overall quality of the action in this show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!

Overall given how this batch of episodes end and given that Netflix likes to have several batches of episodes all good to go it's safe to assume that this show will be getting more episodes released by the end of the year and with this being a decent show I can see it getting a good healthy following as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that means that this very show earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Godzilla fandom wiki page , Wikizilla and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Wikizilla since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Wikizilla are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.

Godzilla: The Animated Series "New Family Parts One And Two" TV Series Review

 

The nineties was a time when we had alot of really great cartoons airing and with some many good cartoons airing all at the exact same time it's understandable that one or two would perhaps fall through the cracks and become forgotten about. The show which i'm going to talk about today is one such show making things even worse for this show is the fact that is forever linked to THAT 1998 live action American Godzilla movie and so then join me as I review the first two episodes of a show that sets to right the wrongs made by it's live action counterpart with the first two episodes being called simply just "New Family Parts One And Two" enjoy.

The plot of these first two episodes is mere minuets after the 1998 Godzilla movie ends Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos finds a baby Godzilla egg which then hatches and sees Nick as it's father and while this is happening a new monster attacks Jamaica and there's only monster that can stop it Godzilla. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty rather thin with the plot not really kicking in until the last five or ten minuets of the first episode which just makes almost the entire first episode seem pointless and filler in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in these first two episodes is Ian Ziering as Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos and Charity James as Dr. Elsie Chapman. Also starring in these first two episodes are Brigette Bako as Monique Dupre , Rino Romano as Randy Hernandez , Joe Pantoliano as Victor 'Animal' Palotti , Malcolm Danare as Dr. Mendel Craven , Tom Kenny as N.I.G.E.L. , Paget Brewster as Audrey Timmonds , Keith Szarabajka as Philippe Roaché , Kevin Dunn as Colonel Anthony Hicks and Frank Welker as Godzilla.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes cast doing the best that they can to make the script for these two episodes work for them. The issue is tho that the script for these first two episodes doesn't give the actors a whole lot to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities are and so they aren't allowed to turn in great performances because of the fact that the script for these first two episodes just wont allow for it.

Doing the animation for these first two episodes was Lotto Animation , New Millennium , Seoul Movie , Wild Horse Animation Group , Anima Sam Won , DR Movie , Dong Woo Animation Co. and Koko Enterprises Company. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad and was alot better then what I thought that it would be.

This show is of course set after the events of the 1998 American made Godzilla movie with the opening of this shows first episode being set minuets after the movie ended. This to me was pointless since nobody who was watching this show was doing so because they never saw the movie and so if anything this show should have been set months after the movie just so you could then see how the characters from the movie have progressed in their lives and heck you could even make the case for this show being the unproduced sequel to the movie as well as the show does have a natural progression of Nick's storyline with Godzilla.

I will admit that this show does the character of Godzilla alot better then the movie version ever did as this version of the character acts alot more like Godzilla then the movie version ever did. With this version of the character even having the characters signature Atomic Breath along with the fact that he is now basically unable to die by conventional methods all of which restore the god in Godzilla and all of which make this version of the character alot better then the actual movie version of the character ever was.

While we do have some really cool looking monster designs in these first two episodes neither monster has much if a personality. Even Godzilla himself really doesn't have alot of personality with him just showing up to take part in an action scene and nothing more then that which is a shame because the original Japanese Godzilla had a ton of personality and so to this show not really give him a personality just goes to show that they didn't really learn all that much from the 1998 movie and just made Godzilla bland and rather uninteresting.

Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and twenty four second while episode two has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and twenty two seconds. Which is pretty much the bog standard running time for any animated show in the nineties and I will admit that while having this shows opening story be a two parter does make sense on paper in reality it doesn't work as the first episode basically adds nothing to the plot and when you take into account the 1998 Godzilla movie is basically a pilot episode for this show I really do think that it would have been better if this one singular episode instead of two episodes as that's all there's enough story to cover but I will admit that both episodes do have some great pacing to them.

So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With the action that we got in these first two episodes being good for the time that this show was made and was really fun in parts but at the same time the action in these first two episodes was also rather dull and repetitive as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall these weren't bad first episodes as they did set the tone for the rest of the show and the show is alot better then what I remember it being and plus this show does somewhat right the many wrongs set by the movie as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these first two episodes in this very review and as such that means that these first two episodes earn themselves a combined score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the Godzilla fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in definition.

My Very First SPOILER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Impressions Of Godzilla: Singular Point

 

Well then Godzilla fans I had planned on reviewing the 1962 Godzilla and King Kong movie which was / is called simply King Kong Vs. Godzilla and well you know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. I will fully freaking admit right here and right now that I straight forgot about this show and I will also fully admit that I straight forgot about this show even being a thing let alone that it was coming out this year and so boys and girls here are my very first SPOILER FREE first impressions of the new anime show that bares the Godzilla name and is set in the world of Godzilla with the show itself being called simply "Godzilla: Singular Point" and so enjoy reading this post everyone.

The plot of this episode is co-workers Yun Arikawa and Haberu Kato are tasked with finding with the source of a mysterious noise but also tasked with finding the source of that same mysterious noise is one Mei Kamino all the meanwhile Yun and Haberus boss Goro Otaki is working on a robot that could potentially save the universe if only people would believe that he doesn't have a screw or two loose that is. In terms of what I thought about the plot of this episode in all honesty the plot of this episode is exactly the kind of plot that you'd expect from the first ever episode of a Godzilla anime in that the actual plot itself is pretty weak which is to be expected given that it's a TV series but at the same time the plot of this episode is pretty interesting in my humble and honest opinion and it does make me want to watch the next episode and the plot of this episode does make me want to watch the next episode just so i can see what happens next to these (so far) pretty likable characters but that's just what I think about the plot of this debut episode anyways.

Starring in this episode is Yume Miyamoto as Mei Kamino , Shoya Ishige as Yun Arikawa and Taro Kiuchi as Haberu Kato. Also starring in this debut / premiere episode is Wataru Takagi as Goro Otaki , Misaki Kuno as Pero 2 , Rie Kugimiya as Jung , Jin Urayama as Tsunetomo Yamamoto , Yohei Azakami as Shunya Sato , Hiromi Yoshiyama as Norikiyo Fujiwara , Hiroshi Naka as The Police Chief , Genki Yoshimoto as Police Officer , Hiromichi Tezuka as The Busdriver , Miyu Komaki as The Bus Announcer , Ryosuke Hara as The Voice On The Car Radio and Naho Oketani as The Boys At The Fairground / The Fun Fair / The Fair.

In terms of what I thought about the actual acting that's resented to us in this episode in all honesty i thought that the acting that was presented to us in this actual debut / premiere episode was alot better then it really had any right to be and I say that the acting that was presented to us in this actual debut / premiere episode was alot better then it really had any right to be because nobody would go into a Godzilla anime expecting. As such it was honestly refreshing to see that this debut / premiere episode had some really good acting in it or well this debut / premiere episode has good acting in it in my humble and very honest opinion anyways. 

Doing the animation for not only this episode but thus the rest of the series is BONES and Orange and these are two companies that I personally haven't heard of so don't worry if you guys haven't heard of them because like I just said I haven't heard of them either. In terms / as for what I thought about the animation that's in this episode in all honesty the animation that's in this episode to me at least nothing special since in my personal opinion at least there was nothing that truly stood out about the animation that's in this episode which given that the first is the first episode of a brand new anime that's honestly to be expected since you don't won't the first episode of a brand new anime to blow it's entire animation budget in the very first episode of a whatever the brand anime show is being called but that's just what I think anyways.

Now then boys and girls for those of you that dont know or just straight up forgot believe it or not this isn't the first Godzilla animated project heck it's not even the first Godzilla anime. Since the earliest Godzilla animated project that I could find was the 1978 American animated series which was called simply "Godzilla" which was show that was pretty much for kids and the earliest Godzilla anime was the 2017 CGI Godzilla anime film with the film itself being called simply "Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters" however this show is the very first Godzilla anime TV show tho and so far this series seems to be pretty freaking good in my humble and honest opinion that is anyways.

I honestly don't know why it's taken roughly or even close to or even around sixty to seventy years for Godzilla to get his first anime series. Since the character is ripe for an anime since he's a fairly complex character with Godzilla being portrayed as being both a hero and a villain in the Japanese and American Godzilla films and Godzilla has a pretty dark backstory which is makes the character perfect for an anime series plus there are stories in an anime TV series that while you could tell them and in some cases they did tell them in a Godzilla those same stories would also be perfect for a Godzilla anime TV series in humble and very honest opinions anyways.

Now then boys and girls this episode has a total running time of twenty three minuets and thirty five seconds which I think is the perfect running time for this particular episode and I say that twenty three minuets and thirty five seconds is the perfect running time for this particular episode simply because there's not much actual story being told. Which like I said makes sense because this is the first / debut / premiering / premiere episode of a new anime and so it makes sense that the story would bit a of a slow burn because they have to somehow find away to hook you into this show and thus get you to watch not only next weeks episode but all the episodes in this show and as such it really wouldn't make sense for this episode to have a long running time or even have a running time that's even close to thirty minuets or even forty five minuets in my humble and very honest opinion anyways.

Now then if you remember the 2014 American live action Godzilla film which was called simply "Godzilla" you'll remember that alot of people myself included had one major complaint about that film and while I won't mention what that complaint because it's spoiler for this episode i'll just say the same problem is in this episode. However in this episode it actually makes alot of sense since this is a TV series and not a theatrically released film but that's just what I think anyways.

Now then boys and girls sadly there is one part of the episode that I simply cannot talk about because it's spoiler and while it is bad that this thing is in this first episode like i just said for an anime TV series based around and set in the the world of Godzilla it actually makes alot of sense that this thing isn't in this debut episode. However I can say that there are some honestly really funny and in all honesty laugh out moments in this episode and all of them feature the character of Mei Kamino who i think is going to become this series comic relief character but that's just what I think tho anyways and that's just in my humble and very honest opinions anyways. 

Overall this was in all honesty not that bad of an episode since it did all of the things that a good debut / premier / pilot episode should do in my opinion. However it doesn't have any of the things that people love about the Godzilla film franchise in my humble and honest opinion and as such I can honestly see die hard Godzilla fans not liking this episode but also either not liking this anime series or just straight up trashing this particular anime series just based of this first / premier / debut / pilot episode and yes i've talking about both of the good and of the bad things that are in this episode in this very review and since this is only my very first impressions of the show I won't be giving this show a rating since it would be fair for me to judge this show just based of the first episode since any TV show anime or live live action can have a bad first episode just like any anime or live action TV show can have a good first / premier / debut / pilot and as such it wouldn't be fair of me to judge this entire show just based of this episode.

As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got all of the images that I used in this review from the official Wikizilla fandom wiki page and the official Godzilla fandom wiki page. With my preferred website to use the images from this particular episode that I used in this review being the official Wikizilla fandom wiki page just simply because it was the only website that had images from this episode and it also had a complete cast list and yeah i'm going to cancel the Godzilla Vs. Kong tie in which would have been King Kong Vs. Godzilla simply because I need a break from taking a look at things to do with Godzilla.

Godzilla 1978 Animated Series "The Firebird" Review

 

Now depending on where your seeing this review then you'll know that i'm a fan of the Godzilla franchise having seen alot of the original films in Japanese and i've seen all of the American films as well. However there are a few things related to the jolly green monster that i'm yet to take a look at and one of those is his original animated series and no i'm not talking about the one from nineties i'm talking about the one from 1978 and so here is my review of the debut episode of "Godzilla" called "The Firebird" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is a bird made of fire is causing havoc in the Arctic and so it's up to our heroes the crew of a ship called The Calico and Godzilla to put a stop to the creature before it's to late. Plot wise the episode was fairly good i'm not going to say that it's the best Godzilla plot out there because honestly the first film will always have that honour for me but in terms of a kids Godzilla cartoon made in the lade seventies it was a decent plot since it did a good of telling the story as well as showing us what this version of Godzilla is like.

Starring in this episode and the rest of the series is Ted Cassidy as Godzilla and Don Messick as Godzooky. Also starring in this episode and the rest if the series is Jeff David as Captain Carl Majors , Al Eisenman as Pete Darian , Hilly Hicks as Brock Borden and Brenda Thomson as Doctor Quinn Darian. Honestly I find out really odd that they brought Lurch from the original Addams Family to play Godzilla since Hanna-Barbara already have a guy who can do the roars of any creature on there pay roll that being Frank Welker so they didn't cast him is freaking beyond me.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode it was honestly alot better then what I was expecting it to be. Which in this case isn't really a good thing since the Japanese Godzilla films even the bad ones have good acting in them but here the acting is just OK which for a franchise this legendary isn't a really a good thing yes the fact that they have the great Don Messick putting a solid performance does help things but one man doesn't make a team in this case.

Doing the animation for this episode and thus the rest of the series is Hanna-Barbera Productions and if you've seen in animated show from the sixties or grew up in the nineties then chances are you've seen there work. Hanna-Barbera are known to be very cheap especially when it comes to the animation and yeah the same is true here since there are alot of repeating backgrounds and there are some shots where you see the back of a person's head and you here them talking which is classic way to save money on animation since you don't have to animate the lips moving.

I really do not think that this is the best showcase for what Hanna-Barbera could do since even tho they have fairly low standards when it comes to the animation this episode doesn't even meet that. That doesn't mean that the animation in the episode is terrible because in all honesty it's not but there are better animated Hanna-Barbera shows out there and there are better animated shows from around the same time period as this show.

Now then this is a Godzilla show after all and so you'd think that this episode would feature alot of our favourite monster. You would be so wrong since he only shows up a handful of times in this episode most of which he's only there for a few minuets and then he disappears but he does show up and take part in the final fight with the firebird which I will get more into later in the review but I do feel that this episode especially should have featured more of Godzilla since his name is the name of the freaking show.

I actually like the design of Godzilla here they really didn't change that much from the original Gojira which for me is a good thing. For some reason tho they made his skin green which really isn't that big of a deal since the original Gojira is in black and white and so you could really make his skin any colour you wanted and it would make sense but what I really don't like is the fact that they gave him a permanent scowl which would work if he was the villain of the show but here he's meant to be the good guy and so they really didn't need that scowl at all in my opinion.

Now let's talk about everyone's favourite most useful character oops I mean't everyone's least favourite useless character in the how and this episode Godzooky. Why the hell the producers thought that this character was needed is beyond me since they already have a character designed for kids to like that being Pete and so why this useless character was added is beyond me. I honestly wouldn't mind the character that much if he actually did something useful in the episode but he doesn't infact it's him wondering of that causes Pete to get himself into danger looking for Godzooky.

Like with Godzilla I like the design of the villain of this episode who if you can't tell by the name of the episode if The Firebird. I just think that having a creature made entirely out of fire is just so freaking awesome and it highlights the creativity in the Godzilla franchise so you can have a monster or creature made out of anything and it would make sense so yeah I honestly cannot fault the design of this character whatsoever.

This show started airing on NBC on September 9th 1978 and the series lasted a full two seasons ending on December 9th 1979 and the show was paired with another show called Jana of the Jungle where together they formed The Godzilla Power Hour. With each episode being around twenty two minuets each I honestly don't see why they had to pair Godzilla with anything since they could have got a large amount of people watching this show just based of the Godzilla name alone but I guess it was more for Jana then it was Godzilla since Jana doesn't even have her name in the title.

Now then since this is an action show that does mean that we have to talk about the action that is in the episode. Which i'm not going to lie I found to be rather enjoyable yes it's not up to the standards of the usual Godzilla action scenes like we don't get to see Godzilla destroying any cities but we do get to see an honestly pretty cool final fight between the king of monsters of the firebird which is honestly my favourite part of the entire episode.

Overall I can't say that this is a bad episode because in all honesty it's not and I can't even say it's a bad representation of Godzilla either. What I can say tho is that for a show based of the Godzilla franchise this episode lacks alot of the things that we love about the Godzilla franchise which i've mentioned in this review but at the same time there is some enjoyment to be found from this episode as such it gets a 6 out of 10 from me.

All images used in this review was gathered from either the official Godzilla fandom wiki page or Google Images. I fully admit I wasn't expecting to find any high definition images not only from this show but also this episode and yet I was shocked to see that the vast majority of the images used in this review or pretty HD as such I have t recommend either website if you want to use images from this episode or this show.