Shin Godzilla シン・ゴジラ

Met or exceeded all 1950's Japanese Monster Movie standards.

Sentimentality: check.

Moralizing sermon at the end: check.

Hot-babe engrish-speaking Japanese actress who will become the next President of The United States: check.

Cool airplanes, missiles and tanks: check.

Monster that goes CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP: check.

Nuclear energy run amok!: check.

I was so happy reliving my boyhood watching this that I hugged myself during the entire movie.

Check it out.

P.S.

Shin Godzilla has it all, monsters, tanks, jet fighters. It has devastation, impotent bureaucrats, medling Americans. It has a hot-babe Engrish-speaking daughter of the President of the United States. It compares favorably with any 1950s monster movie.

But it has something else. It marks an important career change for Mr. Godzilla. In the past he served as an emblem of the atomic bombings and the nuclear testing program in the South Pacific, but here we get to see him rebrand himself as the simulacrum of the tsunami catastrophe at Fukushima. It was a bold and successful move and is certainly worth a watch.