Counting the new movie “Godzilla Minus Zero”, 39 Godzilla movies have been produced, 34 of them from Japan. Why the entire country of Japan has had a fascination with this giant lizard creature since 1954 would just be speculation. Perhaps because the Japanese are generally shorter and this creature is so huge?

Anyone can easily estimate the special effects budget for any Godzilla movie, based on the total time with setup and build-up to the fighting and action scenes. For this movie, which runs for 2 hours and 15 minutes (too long), the build-up scenes are far too long and boring before the final payoff.

For this movie there is a one-headed, then a three-headed, that is then knocked back to a two headed fire breathing dragon that is Godzilla’s antagonist at the end of this film.