Godzilla II - King of the Monsters

Owen Gleiberman

There are a lot of timeless movie monsters, but Godzilla, in the dozens of Japanese films that featured him, always raised a metaphysical question: Was this 165-foot-tall, beady-eyed, radiation-breathing T.-rex-meets-lizard-king, with bony sculptured plates running down his back and skin like raggedy carpet, an awesome creature to behold despite the cheesiness of the special effects that created him? Or because of the cheesiness? The answer (which is very Zen) was, of course: both at once. That's the essential Godzilla principle. [...]

di Owen Gleiberman, articolo completo (8417 caratteri spazi inclusi) su Variety 28 maggio 2019