50
Dumb, fun, out of this world.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Graham
A strange mix of the campy, at least in the English dubbing, and the awesome.
50
It's fun to see.
40
A classically low-tech monster mash.
40
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Another traditional Japanese production, weakly plotted, woodenly acted and indifferently dubbed.
40
Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
It's all pretty goofy, which I assume is the point, but it's also pretty dull.
50
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
For all the high-tech allusions and middle-tech illusions, the movie--the 23rd in an immortal series--draws its power from its grittiness and unresolved allegory.
75
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
Lands on an imaginative fault line somewhere between tackiness and awe.