I went to the theaters with certain expectations. I was expecting a so-so movie with some good monster battles and minimal story. After reading some journals, I was worried I was walking in to a steaming crapfest.

Personally, I enjoyed it. One of the complaints I had read was Godzilla's screentime. Honestly, you can't expect Godzilla to come out and give a rousing speech, all he does is roar. And, well.. if he had an internal monologuing voice by James Earl Jones, I'm not sure that would be a positive thing. What Godzilla can do is roar, stomp, destroy things, and look badass. He succeeded at these things.

There was enough of a story for us to know the human cast and why we should care about them. Sure, the hero was in all the right places when he needed to be and in all the wrong places when he needed to be, but how exciting would the story of "Earl, that one guy that saw Godzilla off in the distance" be?

The designs were great. Godzilla looked like Classic Zilla updated so that it is not a tiny Japanese guy stomping around in a rubber suit. The Muto (Mutos? I don't know) were a bit like Cloverfield in design but were still enjoyable. Personally, I thought Clover's mom and FF7's Diamond Weapon did the 'monster tango' after a night of heavy drinking. The Mutos' power was a little godmod through. If you're 30 stories tall, do you really need to be able to kill all electronics in a 50 mile radius?

As for the fight... well, shit got smashed in a glorious manner.

Give the movie a chance. I thought it was $8 well spent.