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Hey Harry, Capone in Chicago here, with a review of the best and worst movie I've seen in a while, all wrapped up in one green rubber suit.How can you even judge a Japanese Godzilla movie by traditional standards?
You can't. Of course in this age of CGI getting better with each passing week, Godzilla movies look antiquated and silly. Hell yeah! My favorite game to play when watching this movies is to find the line on the costume where the mask meets the body suit. It's real obvious in GODZILLA 2000. And then there's the legendary bad dubbing, which is better in this film but it's still really bad. Double hell yeah!From the second the Toho Pictures logo comes up on the screen, you smile.
And they waste no time immediately getting Godzilla on the screen. Borrowing heavily from TWISTER and JURASSIC PARK, a team called the Godzilla Prediction Network (which from what I could see is a guy and his 8-year-old daughter) races across Japan in a jeep and seismographic equipment trying to determine where Godzilla will next rear his fire-breathing head. Except in this movie it's not really fire; it's more like concentrated sunlight that appeared to me to be drawn from some kind of solar panels in the pointy spines along Godzilla's back. I don't know, and I don't care.While the GPN is racing to find and study Godzilla, the Japanese version of the CIA is trying to destroy him. I realize that we're supposed to side with the GPN members, but when you see the utter havoc that Godzilla creates in Tokyo, it's hard not to see the point of view of the military on this one.Make not mistake: as bad as the effects are, this is not the Godzilla of your youth (and it sure as hell isn't the American version of Godzilla from a couple years ago). The effects here are better. The suit is a little less...well, like a suit. Godzilla's tail whips around like a real tail. The model work and mixing of the monster with real people is better than I've ever seen. Again, it's not great, just better. But the cheese factor is as high as ever. The dialogue is ridiculous. An example:"But why does Godzilla protect us?""Perhaps there is a little Godzilla in all of us."Or something like that. The one thing I did genuinely love about this movie was the bad monster that Godzilla has to fight. He is a 90-story-tall amalgam of Alien and Predator who shoots destructive energy from HIS LEFT SHOULDER!! How great is that?! There's so little story to GODZILLA 2000, that I couldn't live with myself if I told you any of the details. But the whole thing climaxes in one of the best Godzilla endings ever. I want to tell you so bad, it hurts; but I can't, it's too cool. Anyway, just go see GODZILLA 2000. You'll be sorry you did...but in a good way.
Capone
