*Godzilla: King of the Monsters* (spoilers in this post)

Carp all you want, I thought it was pretty damn good.  The innovations: monsters have economic value, there are property rights in monsters (for a while), communication really matters, the environmentalists are the bad guys, and nuclear power saves the world.  The stagnation: Asian people, and only Asian people, have TFP about monsters.

You can’t judge these movies by normal standards, like those silly critics do, instead you have to ask:

1. How good are the monsters and the monster fight scenes?

2. Does it give the monsters a decent backstory and mythological lore?

3. Does it pay suitable homage to the original movies?

4. Does it have the right number of obscure monsters, arbitrarily added to the canon, as if we know all along who and what they are supposed to be?

5. Do you learn something about how the film-producing country views its own science and bureaucracy?

6. Perhaps YIMBY will come to Boston after all.

Mothra steals the show, A- I say, don’t @ me on this one.  The Japanese movie Shin Godzilla, which appeared about two years ago, is pretty good too, especially on #5.

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