Director Takao Okawara
Starring Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Takehiro Murata
Rated PG
Score 3.5/6

Godzilla saves Tokyo from a flying saucer that transforms into the beast Orga.

To those of you born after about the year 2000 you might find that this movie is a little dated but I assure you there was a time when all cameras used a thing called film. If you don’t believe me ask your history teacher.
Now to put this into a little context cinematically speaking this was released around the same time of Roland Emmerich’s 1998 Godzilla movie starring Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, and Maria Pitillo and Come with me by Puff Daddy was on the soundtrack.

For those of you who were wondering the copy of Godzilla 2000 was dubbed into English and did not have subtitles. I suppose that it’s a combination of the movie’s PG rating and the fact that I did not watch this on the biggest screen I possibly get my hands on but this was not an overly tense movie to watch. There might not of been a lot of character development but I did like the character Io Shinoda a 12 year old who seemed wise beyond her years portrayed by Mayu Suzuki. There were a couple of moments that tug at the heart strings and one definite OMG moments during the fight between Godzilla and Orga but on the whole this was a lazy Saturday or Sunday afternoon movie. Some of the Godzilla shots had me thinking that they could be lower budget riffs on the dinosaur effects from Spielberg’s 1993 Jurassic Park. But when it gets down it turns out that Godzilla shares a lot of the same production values as the Power Rangers television series (because The Godzilla movies and the source material for the Power Rangers fall into the tokusatsu genre) and that’s not necessarily a bad thing because it sort of brings me back to afternoons watching TV after school.
I suppose that my only complaint about Godzilla 2000 was that the flying saucer kind of reminded me of an oversized athletic cup.