Further confirmation of the lack of cohesiveness came through in a film called Monster Zero I saw the other night after the first animated Godzilla film. I was happy that animation principles were put into operation but the movie still lacked on the idea of having a story to hold all those features together and give the movie the necessary zing it takes.
Earthlings found themselves on planet X something just behind Jupiter but the trip getting there was as sterile as the landing and encounter with another race of humanoids. I asked myself how the producer would have released a film where his characters are so cardboard stiff with such a meagre dialogue that the spectator on this part of the globe is likely to be disappointed. The earthlings were kidnapped and brought along a darkened corridor as if that was an essential element in the plot. From then on I expected to see more of the same shallow acting as these humans were given a weak argument over the need for their captures to take some monsters from Earth and bring them back to save themselves from a multithreaded flying dragon.
The humanoids must have had another agenda when they were found taking Rodan and Godzilla from their hiding places to bring them back to their planet without having informed the Japanese. Naturally all this lack of forethought was probably quite normal for the Japanese director who made sure that his characters showed the minimum of emotion. One would have liked to see the see the humans being visually upset over the invasion of their space but the viewer is only given recited lines.
