Yeah, I am too. As I've said before, Honda's direction as Sachio Sakai pulls a knife on Ichiro is some of his best work. Sakai isn't bumbling there, at least not at first, and the combination of Miyauchi's scoring and the tight editing really makes the brief sequence work well. There's humor in that entire chase, but it's also very important to remember this was a movie specifically to be screened at a children's holiday film festival. Ichiro is frightened after the robbers have been apprehended (and Yazaki plays it pretty well); I think that's a pretty realistic response to a near-death experience, especially if you have to rely on your fight-or-flight mode to survive as Ichiro did.eabaker wrote:Ichiro's story is not just an excuse to string monster clips together, which it easily could have been. I'm sufficiently engrossed in it, in fact, that the absence of monster action near the end doesn't bother me; by then, it has served its purpose in Ichiro's arc.
Also, speaking of Tomonori Yazaki, he's the only child that ever had to carry a Godzilla film as the main performer and he does a really good job.
There are a lot of types of Godzilla fans that won't enjoy this movie no matter what, including those who only watch for the monsters and those who find anything remotely funny in these movies out of place. I can understand why some people don't like this movie but I think there's enough here that removes it from serious contention as "the worst Godzilla movie."