Godzilla 2000

I am a huge Godzilla fan and have seen all of the movies. This was an utter disappointment and I don't think that I will be alone after the release of the movie. The special effects are all over the map from being respectable in one or two scenes to being just downright laughable in a lot of the others. If Toho had just carefully watched how the creators of the new Gamera films had taken care of business, this would have been/could have been a great movie. Godzilla's history is abandoned. That isn't a bad thing, but there really isn't an explanation of where this Godzilla comes from either (actually it is almost treated as an enigma) The effects make you wish for seeing wires as they will leave you shaking you head in amazement. If you think I'm making this up or am being too harsh, just wait until you see the movie, then go rent some of the movies that were made from 1991-1995 and tell me that they were honestly far more advanced. It is the year 2000 for crying out loud - I expected more. I think that they detracted from my enjoyment of the film. If you're disappointed in this movie, see the new Gamera series which is far more powerful than this film. If you want to see good Godzilla, rent them from your local video store. You'll be glad you did.

I netflixed Godzilla 2005 and started to watch the movie with the Commentary on, because there was no Japanese language track. No Japanese track was a disappointment to begin with but then as the commentators just glad handing themselves about there edit's, re-written dialog and complete disregard for the original film I realized this was just a ruined film. They went for Camp of the old 50's sci-fi, which you can't write camp. You can only play it as straight as possible and the silly things pop out. For instance, how the one researcher is racing to the scene and two plant workers are just strolling by, not at all aware of Godzilla. Also they cut important scenes because they felt the audience wouldn't get it. Don't dumb things down. Or try to explain things that don't need explaining. One of the worst things is the suped up sound effects. A tell tale line of commentary was that when they said about the original subtle missile hits to Godzilla were more real and the suped up ones sound more fake. And they kept repeating this is a movie that shouldn't be scary for kids. Like they were tring to tone it down into a comedy. I love the camp of the Godzilla movies that comes from this straight serious movie that is just unbelievable. All they needed was Raymond Burr as an American reporter to totally ruin a good Godzilla movie.

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.

In all honesty, I usually enjoy the campy, b-movie charm of the Godzilla movies. The great miniature work and the monster fights usually make up for nonsensical plots or cliché human characters. But nothing makes up for a boring Godzilla movie in my book. If you're making a movie about giant, fighting monsters the biggest sin you could commit is be boring. The perfectly simplistic plot still gets dragged out for most of the run time, where we're only introduced to a new kaiju in the last 30 minutes. The rest of the time we can watch Godzilla battle it out with a flying saucer. Riviting. You know your fight scenes lack any sense of emergency when all your villains basically die standing around being useless. The human characters are annoying. No one likable. The potentially charming father-daughter scientific duo never does anything besides being pretentious, self-important assholes. Honestly the movie could have been way better, have they focused on Godzilla and the monster fights. The effects (explosions, destruction of buildings, atomic breath) were great (save that flying saucer) along with the new suit. If they gave two shits about choreography or pacing the whole thing would have turned out fine. I understand that this movie was Godzilla's great return after 1995 and a lot of people may have major nostalgia for it, but in my personal experience with the franchise, there are way better flicks out there.

"Godzilla 2000" is easily the worst movie of 2000, easily the worst movie of the last decade, and easily the worst movie of the century. I don't know why it was ever made. It's a waste of money, a waste of film, and a waste of time. The special effects are the pits. Okay, so I know "Godzilla" flicks are supposed to be cheesy, but come on! This is really pushing it. Lame, lame, lame. The worst film I've ever seen in my entire adolescent life. Wretched and beyond.

This film is a delight! It was SO COOL to see the "Big G" on the big screen again, minus Devlin & Emmerich's "retooling" (emphasis on "tool") The crowd that afternoon was small, but enthusiastic. Granted, the dialogue is just as stilted as previous films, but still fun. And "fun" is the operative word here. Whereas the aforementioned Tristar release was somber and bloodless, this one brings back the sheer joy of the original series with the verve of the Heisei series. Highly recommended!

"Godzilla 2000", the return of Godzilla and the beginning of the 3rd series of Godzilla films: the Shinsei series. Or Alternate Reality series. Or Millennium. Either name, the point is from now on each film is set in its own time line. No more continuity, at all. Now each director will change Godzilla's history and each film will have a different tone and style. I think its an all right idea, but just this once!! Anyways, after GINO was unleashed to horrify us all, this film was released, thankfully in American theaters. Unfortunately, dubbed. Now right here I'm going to point out the several negative factors in this movie, and then you can weigh them with the few positives ones. First off, all those ridiculous campy lines, ranging from "Bite me!!!", "Great Caesar's Ghost!", and, one of the worst, "This missile will go through Godzilla like crap through a goose." WTF!!! These were the source of ridicule from American critics and they bugged the hell out of me. Luckily they're not in the unreleased Japanese version. Unfortunately, those lines at the end are. It was good till "Then why does he keep protecting us?"... then it goes to crap. It was just horrendous! Then we have the opening scenes with people comically surviving Godzilla's attacks. WTF!! To me it just showed Takao Owara had gone soft. Too damn soft. The music by Takayuki Hattori, and by the American composer, was terrible. The Ifukbe ques were great, but they added their own version of two others, and it just didn't work. The story was concocted by one of my favorite G-writers, Wataru Mimura, with one of the worst, Hiroshi Kashiwabara. It re-introduced aliens and at best was OK and nothing more. Godzilla looks better than ever, only that his head looks big from certain angles. The heat ray is magnificent and CGI plays its vital part. The rampage at the start of the film is nicely done effects-wise, just too light hearted!! Orga was a Rancor rip-off from Episode VI pathetically, and provided a slow-paced battle that wasn't that entertaining to be honest. I'll stop here, because I could go on forever, but I think you get the point by now; Godzilla 2000 was a huge disappointment, seriously=(

I saw this movie the other day. My eyes are still recovering from this painful experience. I truly hated it. I read through all the comments and realized that this will be about the first negative comment submitted about Godzilla 2000. Why is that so? People love this movie. I don't understand... I like cheesy b-class horror movies. Any movie with a Troma stamp on it is great. But, this was beyond bad. There was no plot, no effects, nothing to keep even my son's interest, and no refund at the end. I immediately ran to the local video store and gobbled up a copy of the Hollywood version. Ahhhhh ... relief. And that one isn't even that great either. The only part I liked was the last line where our stunning pit-faced hero looked into his heart and proclaimed that Godzilla is in us all. At that point, the big green rubber guy continued to wreak havoc on the Japanese city, theoretically incinerating thousands of people within whose hearts he lives. Touching indeed.

This movie was sooooo bad that i cant believe i sat throught it all. The only good parts of the movie? The special effects.Dont waste your time or money!! As for a alien creature from outer space? what the hell was the writer thinking?? The dialouge that was terrible!! You can see it wasnt there real voices just poorly done computer work.

Disappointed with this one. Let's start with the dubbing...it's terrible, I know Godzilla movies are supposed to be badly dubbed but they actually used professionals. Godzilla is missing for most of this movie and we have to watch boring characters we care nothing about blabber on and on about Godzilla but I want to see him fight and stomp Tokyo! The plot was even better in the American version. The ending is by far one of the worst and cheesiest I have ever seen and don't even get me started on the horrible CGI. Overall, this was pretty crappy. Monster fights were minimal and there was even less stompage. **/*****