(1998)
Starring:
Godzilla
Baby Godzilla
But caught daydreaming by the US Army, he is recruited by them to help them study a new "sample." Dubbed "The Worm Guy" by his peers because none of them can pronounce his last name (little does he know the prase "Worm Guy" has nothing to do with his field of study, but rather to do with his...ahem...I'm sure that's a story for another time...moving on...), Nick discovers his sample to be a footprint large enough to fit an entire football team into.
The creature leaving these tracks is believed to be behind the disappearance of several fishing boats off the Eastern Seaboard. Who can blame it? Tuna prices are outrageous these days.
While Nick and company are playing with the prints, his reporter-wannabe ex-girlfriend Audrey gets an up close and personal look with the massive lizard that created them as it invades New York City. One of her more IQ-challenged friends, Animal, chases after the.beast with a video camera to tape some first hand footage. His closeup of the creature lands all over the news, proving there is a "dinosaur" on the loose in the streets. The media, internet bloggers, and Sean Penn immediatly blame George W. Bush for this (despite the fact that he was not yet elected in 1998, yet that still doesn't stop them).
With the city being evacuated, Nick and his Army buddies set a street trap for the beast, luering it in with a pile of fish. Emerging from underneath the ground, where it has burrowed itself in, the creature comes up for his little snack. The Army shows the same train of thinking the Japanese military shows, and decides the right coarse of action is to shoot the hell out of it.
After a lot of guns blazing and buildings that blow the shit up, the creature returns underground. Nick discovers the blood of the creature at the scene, and does the logical thing...he goes out and buys a whole bunch of pregnancy tests. At the pharmacy, he bumps into Audrey. "The Worm Guy" feels himself grow 17% at the sight of the first woman he's seen since he's started playing with worms. Little does he know Audrey sneaked he way past the yellow tape and is charming her way into a news story to put her on top.
Nick uses to the pregnancy tests to deduce that the beast is pregnant and nesting in New York, and yet even after directly asking for them still acts surprised when they come out positive. Was he just pretending to work so the higher ups didn't bother him and just shocked when he actually discovered something? While distracted by the test, Audrey steals a video tape of earlier sightings and decides to use the info for her big story.
However, unfortunatly for her, the studio re-edits her tape for their top newsman, and his broadcast leads to the creature being dubbed with the name "Godzilla," mispronouncing the name of "Gojira," a mythilogical sea dragon of Japan. This news report proves disasterous for our neighborhood worm boy as well, as Nick gets fired for alegedly handing the press inside information, and they ignore what could potentially be vitol information because they don't want to believe it (hmm...maybe Sean Penn is right and this is a George Bush opperation).
On his way to the airport, Nick is abducted by the French Secret Service, who confess to them that they created the creature (well, what do you know? For once the Japanese aren't responsible for a giant rampaging monster on the loose), and if there's any possiblity of a nest, they want to destroy it. Nick and a group of French soldiers head underground to find it, while the military prepares to lure Godzilla back up to the surface for what will hopefully be their final confrontation...
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