Godzilla 2000

Starring:Tsutomu Kitagawa
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
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..."

Amazon.com

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..."

Customer Reviews:

WHAT A FIRE BREATHING BLAST!.......2007-06-08

Given I'm from the Raymond Burr generation of Godzilla Fans, I must say, this remake is a fire breathing blast!!! My brother and I grew up on the old Godzilla films as boys. I really was not that all impressed with the one that starred Mathew Broderick. I love Mathew's work, but lets face it, there is nothing that beats the old Godzilla formula I grew up with or the look of our dear old handsome looking dragon. As I think back, my brother and I would often spend an afternoon building whole cities in our bedroom, using erector sets, lincoln logs, and other building type kits while orchestrating our own play scripts having our stuffed animals destroy the make believe city we built in our bedroom. Loads of fun and it kept us out of our parents hair. What inspired us; well, Godzilla, of course! (lol)

Watching this first, of the new millenium several remakes, was a delight. All was very well done along the lines of the old Godzilla film formula. I had hoped someday, someone would follow that old formula using today's special effects and didn't know it started in 2000. Guess I'm a little behind trying to catch up on the International film making scene. This film looks really great and is awesome in surround sound.

The script is nothing complex. Man has found a underwater rock that floats to the surface, is really an alien ship in disguise which gives birth to a horrible looking alien creature, as big as Godzilla, that wants to take over the world. Comes Godzilla to save the day and banish this evil creature, while wiping out part of Tokyo to do the job. I have nothing against the Japanese people, but they sure do have a thing against their own city wanting to wipe it out all the time with a fire breathing dragon like Godzilla. (chuckling) In the end, Godzilla makes it clear no one messes with him, not even the head administrative official who launches his attacks to try and destroy Godzilla throughout the film.

Like the old Godzilla films, you really don't see anyone directly killed in this remake, except at the end when the head official gets his by the "don't mess with me lizard" he tries to destroy throughout the film. Death is always near misses in this film, so it should be great for kids to watch. It's scary, but fun. A nice change from all the films that show so much of death's gore and horror only all to graphically these days.

The original Japanese is in the audio which is great and the minuture work looks even better than the old movie series. Very real looking, but still lots of fun as Godzilla fights to protect and beat up Tokoyo in one fire breathing breath.

There is a short behind the scenes feature added to the DVD. It's not very long and frankly a disappointment. Even though its in Japanese, I would have liked to have had the main people interviewed with english translations to hear more about why this remake was finally being pursued and why this particular script was written to start off the remake series of films since 2000. It would have also been helpful to give some folklore behind the whole Godzilla mythology in Japanese tradition for Americans to understand better. I think the Japanese have a great civilization and this would have been a chance for the film makers to better bridge the generation and civilization gap for young viewers eager to learn about their culture and way of thinking.

Otherwise, the packaging is just fine. Delivery was fast! The product arrived ahead of time. No problems with the DVD disk. In short, no complaints.

Looking forward to more romping, chomping and burning from our friend Godzilla!

In fact, with my brother's birthday around the corner, I decided to buy all five new remakes and send them to him as a birthday gift which I know he'll love. Don't know what his wife might think, but with any luck they can cling to each other, while they lie in bed watching tv, as Godzilla scares the hell out of them!

A better effort in the series.......2007-01-10

You know what you're getting with Godzilla, and while there are unintentionally funny moments in this film, by and large it's better than most of the series. As you explore our giant nuclear dinosaur friend's oeuvre, this should be one of your first stops, along with Godzilla 1985 and of course the original 1954 Burr-less film.

Godzilla vs. the UFO.......2006-11-12

Godzilla 2000 is Japan's answer to the American Godzilla. Thank you Japan. In this movie Godzilla gets into a fight with a UFO found in the ocean, which crash landed millions of years ago. But now it has been activated and wants one thing - Godzilla's DNA. With his genes the life force within the spaceship can take form, can create a body of flesh and blood, and take over the planet Earth.
Extras include a behind the scenes feature, the movie trailer and commentary by the staff that prepared the movie for the English-speaking viewers.

New Godzilla movie satisfys the geeky need for Godzilla fans!.......2006-07-31

Ok, I'll admit it. When I was a kid I LIVED for Saturday morning "sci-fi theater" type programs and always hoped for a good Godzilla movie to be featured. Well, I haven't kept up with the lore and movies but I will watch one when I see it on late night tv here and there. I can't explain it because the movies ARE undeniably cheesey, but there's just something about the big lizard that I like. :) Now, I got this movie to see if it was possible that the newer movies had progressed to the point where they would be cool AND not cheesy. This doesn't disappoint!

Of course, the lip synching is still there and that was always part of the charm of the older movies in my opinion. Other than that however, I was actually impressed. This movie doesn't look like a guy in a lizard suit tromping around. It looked like I always WISHED it would look as a kid. I found this movie to have the best elements of all the old "classics" but the special effects and realism that you'd hope for in a 21st century movie. Don't tell anyone, but I LIKED this movie! :)

Unreal.......2006-06-05

Let me just say this about Godzilla Movies in general: Forget about trying to understand the "plot", if there was one to start with, it gets lost in translation/dubbing to English and none of these Millenium Series movies makes any sense at all. They seem to be an odd mix of fantasy, sci-fi, horror and drama. You really need to take a leap of faith into the Godzilla Universe to sit through an entire movie, the dialog and themes are hard to take. I'd say it probably boils down to nothing more than a difference between Japaneese and American story telling sensibilities. After watching the whole thing, My son and I like to watch it again a time or two, but we jump right to the best Monster battle scenes - that's the beauty of the DVD format, you can go right to the good stuff and pass up all the weird parts in between.

That said, the MS movies are absolutely awesome. Compared to the older "guy-in-suit" Godzilla Movies, the new ones (90's-2000's) are cutting edge. They have mind blowing special effects, huge sets of cities built with models, and they seem to have a creepy, chilling, & darker look to the night scenes. The "behind the scenes" part is neat, showing how they shoot the films - just as enjoyable as the movie.

The UFO is mosty CGI animation and looks goofy flying around, but the combat scenes between the army, airforce, Godzilla, the model UFO, and the alien monster are outstanding. There's missiles & shells flying everywhere, just like it should be, all out warfare. I didn't get the other's reviewer's mention of male/female sugestion in the scene, they must have a dirty mind.

Godzilla DVD Collection 7-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla 2000 / vs. King Ghidora / and Mothra The Battle for Earth / vs. Destoroyah / vs. Space Godzilla / vs. Mechagodzilla / Giant Monsters All Out Attack / vs. Megaguirus)

Average customer rating:

Godzillalicious
Great movies but the Collection is without merit
Don't bother with this if you love Godzilla
great
For a limited time only: Things The Curmudgeon actually LIKES - Part Four!

Godzilla DVD Collection 7-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla 2000 / vs. King Ghidora / and Mothra The Battle for Earth / vs. Destoroyah / vs. Space Godzilla / vs. Mechagodzilla / Giant Monsters All Out Attack / vs. Megaguirus)
Starring: Matthew Broderick , Jean Reno , Maria Pitillo , Hank Azaria , and Kevin Dunn
Director: Roland Emmerich , Takao Okawara , and Jun Fukuda
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Destroy All Monsters

ASIN: B0002V7T0Q
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Customer Reviews:

Godzillalicious.......2007-01-16

Excellent choice for Godzilla freaks! If you want nonstop earth shattering action, this is the collection for you.

Great movies but the Collection is without merit.......2006-12-31

First off, these are all good to excellent Godzilla
flicks - lots of fun and worth owning. I give 2 stars
because if you don't happen to already own any of these,
you can at least get an instant collection for a fairly
good deal (low price).

The bad news is for those who are not new to Godzilla and
who have a collection already: all Sony did, from the looks
of it, is bundle up the back stock of previously released dvds.
There are no decent extras to speak of. This collection
features 9 movies on 7 disks as follows (two disks are double
features).

The Good:

Yes, there is some good here! The following are how ALL the
movies should have been handled and would have made this a more
solid effort on Sony's part:

Godzilla x Megaguirus, GMK and Godzilla x Mechagodzilla are
all in High Definition, offer English and Japanese soundtracks
and english subtiltles, which is the way ALL Godzilla flicks
should be presented in this day and age of DVDs.

The Bad:

Godzilla x Mothra Battle for Earth and Godzilla x Ghidorah.
A travesty because these are STILL not presented in their
original aspect ration; they have NO JAPANESE soundtrack and don't
even have close captioning/English Subs. These are the exact
same Full Screen-No Frills copies that have been floating around
for years - whats up with Columbia Tristar!?

Godzilla x Space Godzilla and Godzilla x Destroyah. Great
flicks which are at least in widescreen. Columbia Tristar
still held off from including a Japanese soundtrack!

Godzilla 2000 - still just an English dub here folks, sorry.
At least its in widescreen; there is also a comentary track and
a few other nice extras which lift this disk up a bit.

The Ugly:

Godzilla 1998 - including this movie was weak. It isn't
all that bad if you can forget it bears the title of a
Godzilla movie because that's where any similarities end. It
doesn't need further comment except to say its a dinosaur
movie with lots of CGI effects and no heart. Its worth
seeing for the general viewer of hollywood style flicks.

In conclusion, Sony didn't do anything to make this a more
interesting collection for the long-time, long-term fan. I'm
not as sour on Sony/Columbia Tristar as I may sound here, but
this release just doesn't have anything extra.
Sony will have little to say to those who seek out bootlegs
or versions released from other countries in order to view
the movies as they were originally released.

50th Anniversary Editions:
Better news is that the other earlier 70s Godzilla flicks
(GxMegalon, GxGigan, GxMechaGodzilla etc.) were released
with English and Japanese dubs. Hoo-Ray for Columbia Tristar!

Don't bother with this if you love Godzilla.......2006-07-26

This is probablythe worst set of movies to be put together. Even "Godzilla vs Megalon" had MORE HEART and Fun than these rejects. Watch the classics if you can-they are all much better and more family friendly. People used to MTV quality and trash movies though will probably go Ga-GA over these efforts though.

Buy the special edition Gojira or english subtitled Japanese language Godzilla movies out or soon to be released instead.

great.......2006-03-22

Everything was as ordered. Shipment was on time and the videos were as advertised.

For a limited time only: Things The Curmudgeon actually LIKES - Part Four!.......2006-03-19

If any of you are familiar with The Curmudgeon's other reviews, you may well be scratching your heads at this one. A FIVE star review?! That can't be right. And usually, YOU would be right. The Curmudgeon has dedicated 95 of his 100 reviews to bringing you the very worst things out there. To celebrate the 50 review milestone I reviewed 5 GREAT things that are available on Amazon, and so, now I've reached 100, I thought I'd do the same again. So, from reviews 100 - 105, it's going to be nothing but good, great and awesome stuff.

Sometimes there's no justice. The term "Giant Monster Movies" immediately throws up two names: Godzilla and King Kong. The two kings of the genre have never really been fairly matched, however. Whilst Godzilla has a far greater quantity of movies, the big monkey certainly wins out in the quality stakes. Godawful 70's remake and sequel aside, Kong has fared better in the original movie (easily one of the greatest movies ever made) and the new glossy big budget remake certainly fared better than the abysmal 90's US attempt at Godzilla.

Speaking of THAT film, it's included on this boxset. Now let us never speak of it again. There's far better films to consider, all of which embrace the sense of adventure, inventiveness and fun that make this genre such a joy to watch. This boxset collects some of the more recent efforts, miles away from the more kiddie-friendly fare of the 70's movies. These are far more, um, realistic(?) in approach, a nod to the more serious side of the Big G. It's a superb collection that, crappy American attempt aside, will please anyone who don't salivate over the latest 100 million dollar CGI-fest. A guy in a suit it may be, but the genius of these movies is their ability to make you believe that it's a bad ass radioactive dinosaur trashing Tokyo for the millionth time.

This review isn't just about this boxset in particular, but Godzilla movies in general. If you can accept the often ropey effects, the absurd plots and wonky dialogue, they offer a sense of escapism that is unmatched. These movies have a passion and genuine love for their monsters that is so infectious, it isn't long before you know all of the monsters and are cheering on your favourites ("Go Mecha-Godzilla! Wooooh!")

King Kong and Godzilla, then. Kong may have the better movies, but Godzilla remains the better - and best - monster. Regardless of all the "final movie" comments (pah, I'll believe it when I see it) - long may his reign continue.

And that's part four of five taken care of. Just one more thing that The Curmudgeon actually likes. But what on earth could it be? Only one way to find out...

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Godzilla DVD Collection 5-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla 2000 /Godzilla vs. Hedorah /Godzilla vs. Gigan /Godzillla vs. Mechagodzilla)

Average customer rating:

No 2000 SE
This is a great collection, but...
will godzilla 2000 be rereleased seperately?

Godzilla DVD Collection 5-Pack (Godzilla (1998) / Godzilla 2000 /Godzilla vs. Hedorah /Godzilla vs. Gigan /Godzillla vs. Mechagodzilla)
Starring: Matthew Broderick , Jean Reno , Maria Pitillo , Hank Azaria , and Kevin Dunn
Director: Roland Emmerich , Takao Okawara , and Yoshimitsu Banno
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Boxed Sets | Stores | DVD | Video

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Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah / Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth
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Son of Godzilla

ASIN: B0002V7OF6
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Customer Reviews:

No 2000 SE.......2004-10-21

I just got this and it doesn't have the Godzilla 2000 Special Edition. Just the regular English dub. It seems like everyone was saying that the 2000 dub/sub would be in here, so I'm wondering where the misinformation originated. The only saving grace is the 3 oldies with the original Japanese track.

This is a great collection, but..........2004-10-20

It may not contain a Japanese/English Special Edition of Godzilla 2000. According to some early reports, this is the same English-only DVD released a few years ago. So, don't buy the box unless you don't any of the films and you also want the U.S Godzilla.

will godzilla 2000 be rereleased seperately?.......2004-08-25

this set is a good set because it has three dvds i dont have and also apparently godzilla 2000 is a new special edition with the japanese version on the other side of the disc! unfortunately those are joined by the worst godzilla film of them all the american godzilla. a dvd that most huge godzilla fans already own like me and that casual fans don't want to own. unfortunately us huge fans may be forced to buy this because of the godzilla 2000 dvd. there is no place i can find to order this seperately so i am very afraid that i will have to buy this. this is a problem because of the cost and also i want to ask for the godzilla dvds for christmas but no one will buy me a five disc set for christmas. its to expensive. so please tristar release the special edition of godzilla 2000 seperataley. just because you have a bunch of extra copies of your bad movie doesn't meen we should have to buy it to get a good movie. UPDATE 10/18/04 the godzilla 2000 disc will NOT have the japanese cut! I recommend this to nobody unless you dont have any of these discs buy the new ones seperately and dont encourage Sony's lies about what is on the dvd's consider my review a one star now.

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