In some ways these features are more like sporting events than fantasies.

Despite alluding to the metaphorical past of kaiju, Honda’s Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters offers another narrative in which Otherness is feared and a deceptive imaginary sense of societal harmony is subtly celebrated.

The human-scaled scenes, however colorful, get pretty plodding. But it’s all worth it when the Monsterland team rises against the invading forces and to save the planet they once meant to destroy

Sometimes the most thrilling experience one can have at the movies is simply watching a big monster fight and a lot of stuff getting smashed up.