You won't be disappointed!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This was the first theatrically released Japanese Godzilla film in the United States in 15 years. The wait seemed to be worth it! "Godzilla 1985" suffered from not bringing anything new to the character and being too bland. This movie on the other hand is a huge improvement with a brand new idea coming about. We get to see Godzilla destroy a city "and" fight a monster. Well, it originally doesn't look like he's even going to fight another monster. It starts off with an alien spaceship appearing that he fights which brings out a giant monster. That was very nice and unpredictable.Unfortunately, the CGI is pretty lame at times. It makes you realize how better the practical effects in the Godzilla franchise are. We even get some interesting insight into the mythology of Godzilla. It actually has the characters question why it is that Godzilla attacks and destroys cities while at the same time helping the humans. They conclude Godzilla just sees himself in the people as they are responsible for his awakening. It really does set up the personality of Godzilla. Most of the good stuff as usual doesn't come near the end, but it's worth the wait. I could believe this was the 2000th Godzilla movie. ***

Once you have seen one of the Japanese Godzilla movies then you have essentially seen them all; a monstrous threat stands against Tokyo in the shape of a massive creature and Godzilla emerges to fight the creature.The story in "Godzilla 2000" (aka "Gojira ni-sen mireniamu") was another copy-and-paste storyline of basically every other Godzilla movie. And it is a wonder that with almost 30 movies that there still is a market for the 1954-born king of monsters Godzilla, and even more so impressive that Tokyo still stands.The effects in this 1999 addition to the Godzilla franchise was actually quite alright and did help the movie as being entertaining.I watched a version that had only an English and French dubbed audio track, much to my irritation. I do prefer movies in their original language. And yes, "Godzilla 2000" had one of those really bad dubbed voice tracks that makes you wonder just where did they dig up someone who talks like that.Godzilla is a force to be reckoned with and has been so since 1954.

Not the best start to a new series of Godzilla movies, but it'll do. It did have some work to do after the shitstorm that was the American Godzilla. It mostly makes up for that. We get a guy in a suit, looking better than ever. The film also brings us some CGI, with a wonderfully dodgy looking spaceship. I praise this film for not holding back on its imagination. I wish people would stay away from the American dubs. I've never seen one, and I've enjoyed the series thoroughly. This film had everything I'd come to expect, but seemed scared of being too outlandish. Hiroshi Abe also ruined a lot of the movie by having ONE look. Was it fear? Was it determination? Was it confusion? I'll never know.

After a misguided, high-tech Hollywood makeover the scourge of the Orient is back where he belongs, in a rubber suit at Toho Studios, kicking over another pint sized facsimile of downtown Tokyo.Never mind the actual plot, in which the big lizard is interrupted during his latest rampage to do battle with an anonymous alien "from another galaxy" (according to one farsighted expert). The grassroots Godzilla Prediction Network wants to protect the title character for purely scientific research, putting them at odds with the evil bureaucracy of the Crisis Control Intelligence Agency, better known by their telltale acronym CCIA.Godzilla himself is offstage for much of the film, perhaps because no one wanted to squander the valuable screen time of a star whose range of talent is limited to stepping on tinker-toy cities. The actual battle scenes are more or less typical of the series, with lots of enthusiastic low budget FX, in this case borrowed (somewhat blatantly, and with more than a little irony) from the same pyrotechnic stockpile used by Hollywood's 'Godzilla' director Roland Emmerich in his space invader blockbuster 'Independence Day' (note too the gratuitous lift of verbatim dialogue from Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove'!).The result is a textbook guilty pleasure, carelessly dubbed by voice talents who must have had trouble keeping a straight face delivering lines like the following, from an astonished soldier: "…did you see that flying rock go by? It's unbelievable!" Or the final, philosophic aside, explaining why Godzilla has once again saved mankind (and ignoring the truly awesome trail of devastation in his wake): "…we created him. Godzilla is in all of us…" More accurately, Godzilla might be said to be an extension of the eight-year-old child in all of us, always looking for another tower of blocks to knock over.