a5c7b9f00b To put it briefly, young Gloria's life is a complete mess. She has a serious alcohol dependency, she parties hard like there's no tomorrow, she is a jobless online magazine writer stuck in a creative rut, and recently, she was kicked out of her ex-boyfriend's apartment in New York. Inevitably, having nowhere else to go, Gloria shamefaced and penniless, returns to her hometown's old house to figure things out, get her life together and lick her wounds, where she will unexpectedly cross paths with Oscar, an old childhood friend since elementary. As hazed Gloria attempts to restart her life all over again any way she can, on the other side of the world, in Seoul, an unprecedented manifestation of a gargantuan Kaiju monster takes the bustling metropolis by surprise, wreaking havoc without remorse and triggering a global state of emergency. Gloria is an out-of-work party girl forced to leave her life in New York City and move back home. When reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, she gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this phenomenon. Well-acted with an unpredictable plot and unexpected turns. Deeply intriguing and thoughtful theme, with many humorous and lighthearted moments. The best monster movies use the beasts to show our own human condition. This movie does a great job of using the monsters as metaphor both on a personal and subtly political level. Excellent use of kaiju! It was fun to see Anne Hathaway outside of her typical princess/ingenue roles playing a much more interesting character. She shines. Great cast. I don't get why people don't like this movie. It's absurd and ridiculous and a good time. Hathaway's character is a fully engaging. Colossal takes diminishing advantage of an amusing premise, one that seems made for satirical treatment yet is executed with an increasingly awkward semi-seriousness the characters aren’t depthed (or likable) enough to ballast.
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