and somber" and that "this new take on [Godzilla] doesn't really work," while Gemma Tarlach of the Milwaukee Journal said that "GMK is best when it embraces its unabashed cheesiness. But when it tries to make Statements with Meaning, whether on Japan's past aggressions or ersatz samurai ruminations on the duty of a warrior, the movie flounders like a giant lizard hogtied by power lines." Film critic Leonard Maltin gave it three out of four stars, one of only two Godzilla films to receive more than two and a half stars, with the other being Godzilla 2000. The Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris gave it three out of four stars, writing: "as absurd as its title, and by those standards it's a hilarious success." Notes References Sources External links 2001 films 2001 fantasy films 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s monster movies 2001 science fiction films Japanese crossover films Films about dragons Films directed by Shusuke Kaneko Films set in 1954 Films set in 2002 Films set in Aokigahara Films set in Kagoshima Prefecture Films set in Niigata Prefecture Films set in Shizuoka Prefecture Films set in Yamanashi Prefecture Films set in Yokohama Films set in the Pacific Ocean Films set on islands Giant monster films Godzilla films Japanese ghost films Japanese fantasy films Japanese science fiction films Japanese sequel films Kaiju films Mothra Reboot films Submarine films Toho films 2000s Japanese films