Godzilla 2000 [VHS]

Godzilla 2000 [VHS]
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Actor: Hiroshi Abe, Mayu Suzuki, Naomi Nishida, Shir? Sano, Takehiro Murata
Director: Takao Okawara
Cinematographer: Katsuhiro Kato
Editor: Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Producer: Michael Schlesinger
Writer: Michael Schlesinger
Producer: Shogo Tomiyama
Writer: Hiroshi Kashiwabara
Writer: Wataru Mimura
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
Release Date: 2001-05-29
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures

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Movie Review: Stupefyingly boring
Summary: 1 Stars

After Japanese audiences flocked to theaters to see Godzilla die in the excellent 1995 film Godzilla vs. Destroyer, he was not supposed to surface again until 2004, for his 50th Anniversary. Unfortunately Hollywood made their disastrous 1998 turd which left a bad taste in fans' mouths, so Toho went and made their own Godzilla movie in 1999 which, unfortunately, turned out just as bad as Emmerich's film. Thus, Godzilla 2000 flopped in both Japan and the US, starting a bad trend for the mostly terrible Millennium series of films, none of which managed to ignite the box office the way the Heisei films did.

Yes, Godzilla is impervious to conventional weapons again. Yes, he has his atomic breath back. Yes, he's massive and imposing again. But the movie still sucks. For one, the new Godzilla suit is the worst since 1968's Son of Godzilla. The suit, which is stiff and rubbery, looks ridiculous from a dead-on perspective (or any perspective). Toho should have rehired Koichi Kawakita, who created routinely fantastic suits for the Heisei series, all of which were incredibly detailed and visually impressive, particularly Biollante, Spacegodzilla, MechaKing Ghidorah, and Destroyah. The lack of an animatronic Godzilla head, which was a staple of the Heisei films, is also absent, which means Godzilla barely does any emoting.

Worse yet, Godzilla literally disappears from the entire middle section! The movie devotes far too much time to the human characters, none of which are remotely interesting or likable, and the ridiculous UFO that's disguised as a giant rock (a giant rock that can fly). Orga, the monster that Godzilla battles towards the end, is easily one of the most forgettable kaiju in the series. The movie is overlong and tedious, with some effects that look as if they were out of one of the 60s films. In fact, Godzilla 2000 probably has some of the worst matte shots in the series, along with one of the worst musical scores. Overall, this film is a bore, with only some decent cinematography and hilarious dubbing to recommend it.

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Gaaaaaaaargh! The guy in the rubber suit is back with a vengeance. Godzilla's back in the nurturing hands of Toho Studios, and they've beefed up the big beast with more highly developed spinal fins, resembling large crystals, and more menacing teeth. But he's the same guy in the rubber suit who smashes Tokyo's buildings and cars and dukes it out in larger-than-life smackdowns with the universe's monstrous villains. The plot is familiar to anyone who was a 12-year-old boy: Godzilla erupts from the sea for reasons that are never made clear, proceeds to wreak havoc amongst the buildings of a model city, and meets and beats a monster his own size, thus saving humanity. His nemesis this time around is a 600-foot-long rock that scientists find at the bottom of the ocean and unwisely bring to the surface, where it proves to be an alien spacecraft bent on acquiring Godzilla's regenerative abilities. "A visitor from outer space?" exclaims one of the scientists, "My god, it's just too crazy to believe!" To which the lead scientist responds, "Right, like Godzilla's normal. Anyway, it's my theory that..."

The film is thoroughly entertaining, and not just for the breathtaking sequences of destruction that follow Godzilla's emergence and his battles with the alien space monster. These do have a preternatural beauty. But the human story, if you can call it that, holds your interest due to the shear preponderance of improbabilities it generates. You laugh at the "mistakes"--assuming they weren't planted there as amiable self-deprecation. --Jim Gay

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