Look, much as it pains us all to admit it, we have to accept that CGI Godzilla from the baffling first Hollywood botch of the King of the Monsters is a part of Godzilla continuity. How else can the real Godzilla obliterate him in 20 seconds flat in Godzilla: Final Wars? Director Roland Emmerich missed the point and all the mystical subtext as he turned everyone’s favorite kaiju into nothing more than an overgrown iguana being chased down by a befuddled Ferris Bueller and a nonchalant Jean Reno as a French ninja. Is it good? No. Is it fun? Kinda. Does it also involve P. Diddy mumbling over a weird-in-a-bad-way remix of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”? Well, yes, but it was the Nineties and no one knew better. Screening as part of We Luv Video’s KaiJune. – Richard Whittaker
