Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
6(26%)
mixed
14(61%)
negative
3(13%)
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100
About as much pure fun as you'll have in a movie theater this summer.
75
Lands on an imaginative fault line somewhere between tackiness and awe.
75
A ton of fun, and then some.
63
This is camp, pure and simple, and unless the translators have taken far greater liberties than is apparent, the filmmakers know it.
63
An enjoyable throwback to the way monster movies used to be made.
63
Heck, it's great to have the big guy back.
58
Amusing, funny (intentionally and unintentionally -- it's dubbed, so many lines come out ludicrous) and, by the ending, exciting.
50
For all the high-tech allusions and middle-tech illusions, the movie--the 23rd in an immortal series--draws its power from its grittiness and unresolved allegory.
50
A strange mix of the campy, at least in the English dubbing, and the awesome.
50
It's fun to see.
