Not content to rot the minds of impressionable children and gullible adults such as myself, Matt Stone and Trey Parker will now be attacking Japan in “Giant Monsters Attack Japan!” (Gee, I wonder what the movie will be about?) Via the L.A. Times, apparently “Giant Monsters Attack Japan!” (I frakkin love that title!) will be the boys’ first G-rated anything, and will be based on the script by J.F. Lawton, who is apparently obsessed with Japan. (Check out his 1996 movie “The Hunted” with Christopher Lambert, about ninjas and Samurais dueling in modern times. It’s great stuff.)
Ninjas, samurai, cutesy mini-monsters, giant robots and the country’s most enduring export, city-stomping mega-monsters played by men in rubber suits, all make appearances in an amusing story about an 8-year-old American boy obsessed with Japanese pop culture who moves to Tokyo when his widowed father is transferred there for work.
Lawton plays all of these clichéd cultural inventions straight, as actual elements of a modern Japanese society that has long since made peace with its little monster problem. And in keeping with the original films’ goofy innocence, Lawton always intended the film to engage children at a PG or even G level, with the filmmakers forgoing CGI for the old-school technique of nothing but a sculpted bodysuit and a committed actor.
I am so psyched for this. Can’t wait for the first commercials during an original episode of “South Park”.
Eric Cartman will teach Godzilla a lesson he’ll not soon forget.
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