A documentary style film following a 40 year old man who protects Japan from giant monster attacks by shocking himself and growing to enormous size.
Directed by – Hitoshi Matsumoto
Written by – Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu
Starring – Hitoshi Matsumoto, Riki Takeuchi, Ua, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Haruka Unabara, Tomoji Hasegawa, Itsuji Itao, Hiroyuki Miyasako, Takayuki Haranishi, Daisuke Miyagawa, Takuya Hashimoto, Taichi Yazaki, Shion Machida, Atsuko Nakamura, Daisuke Nagakura
This is the freaking post that’s been 3 days in the making. What seemed like a funny idea for a video review ended up being a nightmare. I did manage to finish it though, not to my standards but whatever. I’ll give you a brief review here as I’m not sure how much can actually be had in the video review! HAHA!
This movie wasn’t too bad actually. The acting is well done, the CG is incredible and the idea is very original. I love giant monster flicks and here’s one where you’re following around a giant hero as he goes about his daily life, which sometimes includes fighting completely wacked out giant monsters.
The story itself is pretty sad though. Our hero’s life isn’t quite what it should be as the people of Japan don’t really appreciate what he does for them, that and the fact that he doesn’t really seem all that good at it.
There’s plenty of laughs in this one which made up for the overall sadness of his life. I got totally lost at the end of the flick though and if it hadn’t been so weird and funny I would have hated it.
Basically if you love giant monsters than this flick should work out well for you. You’re treated to plenty crazy looking creatures and some really funny exchanges between Big Man Japan and the monsters he must face. I mean, just check out the pic to the right and you’ll get a glimpse of what he’s up against. That alone is worth it.
Check the vid for my epic blockbuster Lego review. I swear I will never do something like that again! HAHA!
Under the marquee (crushed by Lego) – Will
Ha! Loved the review. Thats some ambition there! This might be the video review to feature stopmotion, but don’t qoute me on that.
As for BMJ, yea, its odd and sad. I liked it, but it just didn’t quite seem to be coming together. The ending, I can explain….sort of.
It comes out of left field but its the only truly laugh-out loud moment of the movie. Its a send-up of the old kaiju series Ultraman, or something more modern like Power Rangers. I thought the entire purpose though was to finally give him a world that matched his embellished lies and a place he finally belonged. That, and to just make you raise you eyebrow and exclaim “Whaaa??”
It is a good movie but, yeah, there was something that was missing that would have made it great.
I got how the ending was a send up of the old Kaiju series (which reminds me that I bought some Ultraman eps that I haven’t watched yet) but it didn’t seem like he fit in that world either. He was still pretty much useless. It was really funny though, especially them sitting down to eat afterwards.
If this was the first stop motion review, I can see why! Way, way too much work for 2 mins of video. I have the most respect for all the people out there that bring us feature length films consisting of this stuff. Hard work for sure.
Best review EVAR!
That would explain why you were talking about Lego on your Facebook profile XD
Yes it would! HAHA! And I’ll never do it again!
I forgot to leave a comment about this the other day!! I am big time digging the Lego review! You shouldn’t give up on the Lego!! You have to do a horror film review with that LEGO! I’m sure the kids won’t mind a little fake blood on their Lego (it cleans up real easy!)
That’s actually my Lego! HAHAHA! I have a big, huge bunch of it the kids can’t play with.
Actually, a horror review in Lego sounds like lots of fun. I think I’ll end up doing that now that you mentioned it. Man, what am I getting myself into!