Miike can do anything, and he displays that range here in a film that's fun, creative, and unpredictable.

This noisy, effects-crazed PG-13 adventure might work for 10 year-olds who are beyond Nickelodeon piffle and ready for Japanese splatter.

With its scenes of mass destruction in Tokyo and its climactic mushroom cloud, the movie owes a psychic debt to the atomic-monster movies of the 50s and 60s, but its overriding tone is one of endless, giddy invention.

his isn't a big showdown in the style of recent superhero movies, but something far more organic and joyously deranged.