I get the disdain for this movie, I really do. It's entirely aimed at children with an insufferable theme song and a kid at the focal point of the plot, dealing with bullies both in his world and on Monster Island.
I don't hate this movie. I don't hate any Godzilla movie outside of that abysmal Netflix trilogy. The kids are annoying sure, but you gotta hand it Toho to giving us the Kevin McAllister progenitor in the form of Ichiro.
Outside of the scenes where Minya and Ichiro are on screen together, the movie is primarily a cobbled together clip show from the last few movies. Showing Godzilla fight against the various inhabitants of Monster Island.
Now. Foe the reason I love this movie so: Gabara!
It has yet to be confirmed whether or not Gabara actually exists on Monster Island or if his presence in Ichiro's dreams was a result of his bullying in the real world and this was how he personified it.
My personal head canon is he does exist and Toho is just too afraid to admit it.
But I LOVE Gabara to death, man.
He's an oddity in the Godzilla universe. Being evidently based on an ogre, with a wholly unique roar and power that only Kong before him seemed to possess.
And what a fight between him and Godzilla at the end! The equivalent of a parent going to their kid's school and beating up the bully themselves is what that was.
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