2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Small, imperfectly formed.

JohnC24 from Cheshire, 4th April, 2005

This animated series seems to be a spin off from the Hollywood godzilla film.

This DVD is miserly, even by the generally poor standards of content on kids DVDs, (Fair enough, the little dears don't want directors commentaries etc, but there is a limit) with a stingy 3 half hour episodes, and a bunch of trailers for fairly dire looking films.

The episodes themsleves feature giant monsters rendered fairly blandly, lacking the "Wow" factor even of the original Japanese Godzilla films, and their man in a rubber suit monsters.

My uncritical 6 year old enjoyed the episodes, was slightly confused that they didn't continue past the last one, given the short amount of time that had elapsed since the beginning of the first, and went and did something else instead.

I'd suggest cutting out the middle man, and starting off by doing/watching something else.

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2 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Better than the film perhaps...

A Customer from Birmingham, UK, 1st April, 2005

I'm not a fan of the Tristar Godzilla film, but the animated series was hailed by critics as going back to more 'traditional' Godzilla type plots. Certainly this mini series features a plot which involves aliens controlling Godzilla and other monsters in an effort to wreak destruction upon the world, as a prelude to invasion - a plotline similar to the Toho's 'Destroy all Monsters' and the new 'Godzilla: Final Wars' films. However, I can only give this mini-series three stars for two reasons. First of all, although the animation is representative of cartoons of this type, it seems rather crude to someone brought up on the 'big screen' Godzilla films. Perhaps, as a Japanese creation, a Manga style might have been more appropriate for Godzilla! Secondly, there is a dearth of extras on the DVD - you have three episodes which last about an hour but nothing else, not even any trailers or previews of other films. If I'd paid full price for this DVD I would have felt short changed by it!

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