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Bear McCrearyActeurs·trices:
Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Ziyi Zhang, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch (plus)VOD (4)
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L'agence crypto-zoologique Monarch doit faire face à une vague de monstres titanesques, comme Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan et surtout le redoutable roi Ghidorah à trois têtes. Un combat sans précédent entre ces créatures considérées jusque-là comme chimériques menace d'éclater. Alors qu'elles cherchent toutes à dominer la planète, l'avenir même de l'humanité est en jeu… (Warner Bros. FR)
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Critiques (16)
Un départ fantastique et une présentation visuellement époustouflante des monstres individuels, gâchés par un travail ennuyeux sur l'intrigue et le mépris de l'intelligence du spectateur. Grâce à Gareth Edwards, la Warner avait réussi, dans le film précédent, à redémarrer dignement le culte de Godzilla, en reliant habilement les motifs et l'atmosphère du mythe cinématographique japonais avec la exubérance technique des blockbusters hollywoodiens. Et au lieu de faire un effort et de répondre aux attentes du public, ils ont confié les deux films suivants à des créateurs de films d'horreur moyens et sans intérêt. Un budget élevé injecté dans des effets spéciaux numériques de première classe devrait suffire, la cible est stupide et de beaux monstres suffiront. Nous verrons si cette approche change avec la nouvelle PDG.
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Il serait naïf de fonder des attentes sur un film qui a pour sujet un combat de monstres géants. Mais bon, il faut quand même bien avoir au moins un peu d’espoir ! Mais que tous les personnages ne soient que des caricatures unidimensionnelles reproduisant tous les clichés des films catastrophiques (la fille dans le pétrin, le père héroïque en sauveur, le savant résolu à se sacrifier pour les autres) et récitant de façon robotique les dénominations accrocheuses des monstres de sorte que nous, les spectateurs idiots, sachions comment bien les appeler, c’est tout simplement criminel ! Il en résulte que le méchant, incarné par Charles Dance et pour lequel je me réjouissais le plus, n’a rien à jouer. Et on ne peut pas vraiment dire que les scènes d’action et les effets spéciaux soient désarmants au point de nous faire oublier la nullité du scénario. Il s’agit encore d’un de ces navets franchisés produits sur commande dans le seul but d’assurer la continuité avec le film suivant et sans considération aucune pour le public.
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Wow, I didn't enjoy it. Like, so very, very, very much. The other Godzilla shows that it cost a lot of money, and the monster battles are actually pretty good, at least the final one, which cleverly works with scale and alternates spectacular shots of two dueling titans with action with human characters running at their feet. But that's pretty much it. The new Godzilla has about fifteen human characters, but finding a single one among them that was the least bit interesting or likeable was a task beyond me. A few hours after the screening, I actually remember the names of about two of the protagonists. The trouble is that despite all the declamation and certain attempts to conceive Godzilla II a little differently, it is ultimately very much about those human characters, who of course are the ones who, by their dullness, flatness and absolute unwillingness to take themselves even a little bit less seriously (this is a film in which a giant lizard fights an even bigger three-headed dragon, dammit!) they get boring at first, and then just annoying. The grandeur and elegance promised by the trailers isn't there in the end, and while the fights are fun to watch, the rest of it really doesn't work. In fact, as a viewer, I'm not really interested in seeing another film conceived in this way.
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I get that this film is trying to honor the original source material, but honestly, as a viewer, it was just one big chaotic mess. Godzilla was constantly taking down something or someone, and the only way to tell what was happening was by the color filter they decided to use in each scene. Otherwise, it was one of the most cluttered digital spectacles I’ve seen in years. But hey, I guess this is exactly what the Chinese producers love to see.
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In his previous effort, Edwards handled the legacy of the Toho films much more deftly. He stretched the cues effectively and delivered a clear action set-piece with some iconic moments at the end. But this? This sequel has a fantastic, exciting trailer, with a wonderful musical theme “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” that will make you swoon. Unfortunately, the film itself is not fantastic, let alone exciting. In every one of the 27 Godzilla movies I've seen so far (not counting Emmerich's crap that has nothing to do with Kaiju), I've had more fun than here, including the worst of them, the infantile Son of Godzilla, which was at least a pleasant guilty-pleasure. This film is just guilty, but without any pleasure. You don't care about characters who have a mouthful of family values, visually it's not great either. The golden-hued color filter is downright ugly and the action is cluttered, with a shaky camera that's often a clump of pixels you don't care about. It has a few moments, a few references to Toho's predecessor, which are nice (the woman is also the catalyst for plot twists, and we can hear about three times the notorious Godzilla arrival motif we know from Japanese Kaiju), but that can't be enough even for the most diehard Toho/Godzilla fans, among whom I count myself. It's a disappointment that I hope won't break the lizard's neck in the future.
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