Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

The first part in Toho's CGI animated Godzilla trilogy follows a group of uninspiring survivors on a spacefaring vessel that's running low on resources after twenty years of travel. In desperation, they plan to confront Godzilla, hoping to destroy it and take the planet it resides on for their own.
It's a grim story with dull colours and equally dull dialogue. The Godzilla design resembles the US version, with the stupidly thick wrestler neck and gargantuan size. The 'threat' does very little other than take a few steps and shoot some atomic breath; mostly the creature is little more than a boring target for the humans to shoot at and comment upon. The planet has no buildings or man-made structures, no unlucky civilians, there's nothing interesting for Godzilla to destroy and, by extension, very little for a viewer to sympathise with or even relate to. It's a joyless start to the trilogy.

2 electromagnetic waves out of 5