Yes, I actually paid to see this. it’s about what I expected: monster destroys city, people kill monster. it has a good mix of all the usual Hollywood movie crap – a love angle, an annoying politician, a smart character that nobody will listen to, etc. there is nothing original about any part of this movie (even the camera angles were borrowed from somewhere). I’m getting a little sick of computer animated creatures too. even though the special effects were good, they didn’t break any new ground. the whole movie could have been a lot better… but I was expecting it to be pretty dumb, so I wasn’t disappointed. I just didn’t have anything better to do that day.