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Godzilla 2000 (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 65 Fresh: 37  Rotten:28 Average Rating: 5.7/10
 
Consensus: Godzilla 2000 is cheesy, laughable, and good entertaining fun.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Synopsis: Godzilla (Tsutomo Kitagawa) is back and this time he's trying to smash and destroy all of Japan's nuclear reactors and power plants. In this 23rd film in the cult series of monster movies that began in 1954, GODZILLA 2000 beckons the giant, indestructible lizard from his hiding place deep in... Godzilla (Tsutomo Kitagawa) is back and this time he's trying to smash and destroy all of Japan's nuclear reactors and power plants. In this 23rd film in the cult series of monster movies that began in 1954, GODZILLA 2000 beckons the giant, indestructible lizard from his hiding place deep in the ocean. A local scientist (Takehiro Murata) who tries to decode the giant lizard's motives and predict where his next terrifying steps will land concludes that there must be a reason why Godzilla has emerged from the sea. However, when a 6,000-year-old meteor surfaces from the bottom of the ocean and turns into a spaceship, Godzilla--along with the entire population of Japan--is overwhelmed by chaos, crisis, and hysteria. Yuki (Naomi Nishidi), a local journalist trying to get a close-up shot of Godzilla, along with Shinoda (Takehiro Murata) and his kid daughter (Mayu Sizuki), form a guerilla research group called the GPN (Godzilla Prediction Network). They are the "good guys," making the CCI (Crisis Control Intelligence), headed up by a hilariously nihilistic Katagiri (Hiroshi Abe), the "bad guys." Takao Okawara's GODZILLA 2000 is perfectly consistent with its predecessors: the monsters are nasty and ferocious and they wipe out every skyscraper in Tokyo, literally leveling the city. The film brings back all the old tricks, with special effects akin to the Godzilla films of yore and plenty of monster mania. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Kitagawa Tsutomu, Hiroshi Abe, Takehiro Murata, Mayu Suzuki, Shiro Sano

Director: Takao Okawara
Screenwriter: Hiroshi Kashiwabara, Wataru Mimura
Producer: Shogo Tomiyama
Composer: Takayuki Hattori

DVD Info

Release:

May 5, 2003

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Kimberly Jones
Austin Chronicle
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We know we're in for a good time right from the start when plucky photographer Yuki says, "I've really got to get some great pictures here," while moving her lips only twice.

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06/12/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
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MaryAnn Johanson
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this is old-school Godzilla, meaning unconvincing special effects, a ridiculous plotline involving a rival monster, and lots of Japanese actors with badly overdubbed dialogue

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02/27/01
James Kendrick
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Just nuthin' special

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Emily Blunt
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Robert Roten
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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Once again, Godzilla delivers, cheese and all, in a stylistic B-movie with teeth.

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Pure Mindless Entertainment Value!

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You have to suffer through a thick layer of shoddy production and the Godzilla Prediction Network scientists with their poorly overlaid ... use of American colloquialisms to reach the beast within.

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It is sci-fi kitsch fun.

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01/01/00
Bob Graham
San Francisco Chronicle
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Godzilla 2000 is everything hard-core fans want it to be. So corny. So campy. So MST3K-ready. And, God bless it, so badly dubbed in English, it soars.

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Bob Longino
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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A lovably amusing foray into vapid plotting, bad dubbing and men in rubber suits trashing miniature sets.

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Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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There is a limit to the entertainment value of the deliberately bad, but Godzilla 2000 stays just on the right side of it.

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