Alright, let's face it. Godzilla is the monster of all monsters. He's the
first and the only true monster that we shall ever see in a movie. He destroys
Tokyo on a regular basis. And he saves it on a regular basis.
Godzilla himself has changed drastically since the first movie he ever starred
in. In the first Godzilla movie, he was a monster bent on destruction and it
was up to the brilliant minds in Tokyo to save the day and destroy him. It
was actually an enjoyable, if not cheesy, movie warning of the use of nuclear
weapons.
Since then, however, Godzilla has become Tokyo's saviour, for while he saunters
about, crushing buildings, he fights other big-bad monsters bent on more evil
intent outside of mindless destruction.
Then they killed Godzilla for the final time.
This is when the Americans stepped in and made their utter sham of a Godzilla
movie which they entitled Godzilla. This was a mistake. What they made was
NOT a Godzilla flick. It was Jurassic Park with an overgrown iguana.
So, the Japanese decided to show 'em how it's done! And they succeeded.
Godzilla 2000 has got to be one of the worst, most enjoyable, cheesy movies
that I've ever had the opportunity to see! The dubbing was, while not quite
utterly horrid, it wasn't all that good, neither. That's part of the fun of
Godzilla movies, that the dubbing be bad. The dialogue was utterly horrid
as well, and delightfully so!
Godzilla himself is back to the huge, hulking, slow but well-night indestructable
giant lizard he's supposed to be, taller than most skyscrapers (unlike the
veritable wimpy midget Godzilla we found in Hollywood's 1998 film). Oh yeah,
he's also played by an actor in a big-ass rubber suit. I'm almost envious of
him, getting to go around crushing all those miniature buildings while fighting
big-ass monsters (it looks to be tough work, too... let's face it, that suit's
GOT to get frikin' hot after only a few minutes). It looks cheesy, but it also
looks fantastic!
The plot? Umm... you actually want to know the PLOT to a Godzilla movie? You
actually need to ASK? Okay, sure. Here it is. Big-meteorite crash. Army try
to raise meteorite. Meteorite fly off on own to find Godzilla. Meteorite hurt
Godzilla. Godzilla and meteorite have final battle which end in big-ass-clash
between two brute monsters. ie: Alien threatens existence of Earth, Godzilla
must stop it.
The fight scenes are great fun. The dialogue is cheesy as shit. And I somehow
the presence of "coincidence" in the fact that the big-ass bad-guy monster's head
highly resembles that of the Hollywoodized Godzilla. Nope, no coincidence at all.
A GREAT and FABULOUS bad movie! Do yourself a favour and see it!