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Godzilla has form: he’s flattened Tokyo, made a fool of himself in New York and teamed up with a cute sidekick for a

 

best-forgotten cartoon series. Now everyone’s favourite mean, green, city-stomping machine gets the big-budget 3D

 

treatment courtesy of Brit director  Gareth Edwards, whose 2010 DIY indie‘Monsters’ impressed many. If all you need

 

for a good time is full-on shots of wondrously realised CGI creatures turning to the camera and giving an almighty

 

spit-flecked roar, you’re in luck. But those hoping this ‘Godzilla’ might have brains as well as bulk could be disappointed.

 

It starts strongly, with eerie stock footage of Pacific nuclear tests followed by a nailbiting opening sequence at a

 

Fukushima-style power plant, bluntly but effectively echoing the original 1954 film’s post-Hiroshima

 

atomic angst. Flash forward 14 years and we find chief engineer Joe (Bryan Cranston) obsessed with theories about the

 

accident, while his estranged son Ford

 

(Aaron Taylor-Johnson) tries to bring his dad back down to earth. Then something stirs in the deep…

 

Edwards is an absolute whiz when it comes to creature design. Godzilla himself is chunky, tactile and pleasingly old

 

fashioned, particularly in comparison

 

with Roland Emmerich’s ornate, spiky 1998 reboot, while his adversaries, the winged, insectoid Muto (aka Mothra), are

 

delightfully grotesque. But his handling of storytelling is not so confident: following a couple of gripping action scenes

 

(and one distracting plotting blunder early on),

 

‘Godzilla’ settles into a simple, fairly standard cross-Pacific chase movie. The script is derivative and lacks humour, and

 

the characterisation is weak:actors like Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe have little to do, while a bland Taylor-Johnson is miscast as the

 

square-jawed hero. It’s fun to watch scaly,skyscraper-sized behemoths lay waste to civilisation, but a bit more human

 

drama would be welcome.