Shin Ultraman (2022) - Electric Kaiju Review Hullabaloo
Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind yearning to devour bonkers Kaiju cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. It's Kaiju Time! *Takes off glasses, massages nose bridge and exhales deeply. Eyes closed* Shin. Ultraman. How to review legendary Tokusatsu director Shinji Higuchi' s superhero send-up without sounding like I've spent the last month licking a barrel of hallucinogenic toads? The backstory to the character alone goes all the way back to the 1960s! Feck it! I can't. Might as well just go in, all "nasty laser beams" blazing. So strap yourself in, it's going to get weird . Back in the SSSP... Present day Japan, Kaiju (giant monsters such as Godzilla, Mothra, Gamera, and so on) openly exist, and randomly pop up around Japan causing all manner of amusing chaos and destruction to varying degrees. A counter-Kaiju organisation known as the S-...