Godzilla: Final Wars
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The bigwigs and the hunter consider shooting a godzilla or two (because when has not that worked?) but the human child interposes himself between the guns and a godzilla again and the hunter tells Godzilla that he's done enough Godzillaing for today.

Godzilla decides not to kill the humans, but also to be a deadbeat dad, and runs off. His child is disappointed and runs after him, and they both fuck off into the sea that is also the sunset.

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#Monsterdon

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Back to the Kaiju battle... Ghidorah is trashing Godzilla, although we should point out that the city, presumably Tokyo, is very much Even More Trashed at this point. From the number of destroyed buildings, I get the impression this Kaiju battle in itself would be as long as an entire monster movie if we were just watching the whole thing.

The puny humans realize that Ghidorah is drinking Godzilla's life force like a vampire.

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Meanwhile, the level 1 goth mooks fighting Team Scooby Doo and the Bigwigs are also using Starcraft logic and decide to just stand there and shoot them; after firing about 9 million lasers they manage to graze the Lab coat boss lady once.

Still, the Scooby Doo team can't move, and the music tells us that they are doomed, until I think Stalin uses his shooter game "Bomb" power and knocks all the mooks over, then strolls out to the submarine taking the bigwigs to safety.

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Tall Hair Twink starts beating David Bowie, and we see a parallelism where he is punching his villain while Godzilla is doing the same thing to a giant Kaiju on the TV. Then they separate and Tall Hair Twink and David Bowie resolve their fight by flying at each other and swashing mid air, Tall Hair Twink seemingly victorious.

But its not over yet! David Bowie starts laughing! And say that he won't die alone! Then the golfball starts... exploding?

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I'm not sure how but we also found the OG silver suit guy, who was a prisoner inside the golf ball I guess, along with the other big wigs who were kidnapped earlier. They take some ray guns and start escaping with most of Team Scooby Doo, while the lead twink (who I will now call "Tall Hair Twink") is kickboxing David Bowie and Stalin faces off against two alien goths.

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Announcing his boredom, David Bowie orders Team Scooby Doo killed with guns, but because he gave the lead twink Kaiser powers, the lead twink can now channel Neo from the Matrix and stop the lasers, so they only way to resolve this is with a flying kickbox duel between David Bowie and the lead twink, which the other characters are forbidden (by sword) from interfering with.

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Back in Tokyo, Jerry and Gigan are teaming up to try to pin Godzilla and Chainsaw him, but then Mothra (having I guess regenerated) does a flying drive by to free Godzilla.

In the Pumpkin Spice Latte room, the lead twink is strangling Stalin, but then Miss Scarlet uses a magical dagger or something (I think we saw it earlier in the lab, maybe?) to somehow break the mind control spell. No idea how that works, but okay.

SnoopJ
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what'd he say? one in a million chance for a Keizer to awaken?

And then immediately awakening his ass?

Sure, I'm with you movie. It doesn't need to make sense.

#Monsterdon

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Having taken the Scooby Doo gang captive in their Round Pumpkin Spice Cathedral, the designated Alien Babe decides to threaten Stalin with a sword because that would look cool.

Japanese David Bowie decides to gloat about how superior his species are to humans and explains that humans are very stupid and would probably kill themselves unless ruled by benign aliens (like him).

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Because this isn't exactly like Star Wars, but rather, only almost like Star Wars, blowing up the command golf ball's main reactor doesn't destroy it, but instead makes it gold shell disappear, being replaced with a presumably weaker silver shell that Stalin's drill submarine can then drill into.

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Team Road Trip Babby (the bear suited hunter, the kid, and Minya, the son of Godzilla) are in Japan now but stop to watch Godzilla smash a random town. The kid asks why Godzilla is destroying a town, and the hunter explains that long ago humans made a nuclear bomb and that made Godzilla mad, then they return to their road trip.

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This part of the movie is a speedrun from a platform game, where Godzilla goes through all the levels between here and (probably) Tokyo, fighting random monsters along the way and destroying the scenery. One of the levels of Papua New Guinea, which I'm glad finally gets featured in a movie.

Japanese David Bowie is similarly mad that these other, lesser monsters have been defeated, and he shows his angst via bereaved hand gestures and dance moves.

Terencio

@paco I reckon when Godzilla's chasing you, you can move surprisingly fast.

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Okay, so we're going to the south pole in our flying drill submarine, which is very normal behavior, and we are ambushed by monsters, including Gigan, the biggest monster, and also a bug monster that shoots lasers.

But we manage to use our lasers to blow up some Ice and free Godzilla, who wakes up and fucks up Gigan, giving Japanese David Bowie a Dramatic Pain Reaction because I guess he's driving Gigan? Or maybe just emotionally attached?

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

Funny to have that character introduced to Godzilla *as* Godzilla and then call him Gojira

I'm here for the "yea do whatever" language rules

#Monsterdon

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I'm watching a weird cut of this movie where the Japanese actors have English subs but the probably anglophone actors do not, even though their dialog is dubbed in Japanese.

My Japanese isn't good enough to follow every line, but I'm 90% sure that even if I could I would still be baffled at what was going on because everything is just insane and 6 characters are introduced every minute.

gwildor
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We just added the one silly style of music we didn't have in the croissant scene..

Bluedepth

The next generation will need the clicker. Make sure you don't start just pressing buttons, Mothra hates it when people keep on changing the frikken channel on her!

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The Scooby Doo team decides that Stalin needs his drill submarine to defeat the aliens, so they go steal it to martial music. And also the good twink has rescued the bad twink and brought him to the submarine hospital. Or maybe a base hospital. I don't know where anything is.

Then Stalin announces that we have to go to the South Pole to awaken Godzilla and defeat the aliens. This makes sense to me but some of our heroes have doubts.

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After a scene where the Klingon Ninja airship captain has to fight the giant bipedal ankylosaurus to lots of explosions but unclear results, we go back to the Son of Godzilla island where the hunter and the child and the Son of Godzilla are apparently just chilling and we learn Godzilla's son's name is Minya. That's nice.