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One of the best movies on blue ray yet !!! I recommend it

Godzilla is back is back for his 28th appearance and Japan is not safe yet again.

Takao Okawara’s GODZILLA 2000 is the first film in the Millennium series of Godzilla flicks. This particular sequence of films generally ignores all other Godzilla tales except for the original from ’54. With one exception, they’re a series of standalones. While I found this one to be a middle of the pack Kaiju flick, it does have a few elements that make it memorable. We basically follow a group of people who are kind of like storm chasers, except they follow Godzilla. Think TWISTER except with a giant lizard instead of tornadoes. There are also some supporting characters who are representatives of the governmental bureaucracy and are rivals to our Godzilla chasers. When a mysterious sixty million year old rock is brought up from the seafloor, it soon reveals itself as an ancient spacecraft from another galaxy. This alien intelligence seeks to terraform the Earth so it can take over as the new dominant life form. It sees Godzilla as its only problem and eventually creates a deformed regenerating clone of Big G. What’s good? While not a comedy, there’s a certain amount of humor employed by our human characters. Thankfully, it doesn’t arrive from campiness, either. Godzilla’s design is cool and menacing, and the man-in-suit city stomping, as always, is great. I’ll never be less than impressed by Toho’s miniature sets. Also, the ending is memorably downbeat. I’d say the weaknesses of the film are the dodgy CGI, the spaceship that ends up looking like a bedpan once its freed from its rocky coating, and the fairly forgettable monster that only shows up with about twenty minutes left in the runtime. GODZILLA 2000 from director Takao Okawara takes a few risks but mostly sticks to formula. There are much better films in the Millennium series but, as with pretty much all Godzilla films, there’s still some fun to be had. My son and I are over twenty films now in our Kaiju marathon and I’d probably place this one somewhere in the bottom half.

After an underwhelming attempt from Tristar to bring Godzilla into the US mainstream, Toho sought to dig back into Godzilla's ancestral roots, and resurrect him from the fiasco that was Godzilla '98. Though he was menacingly featured throughout his fantastic Heisei series run that culminated in his climactic death in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995), his millennium return would prove to be just as nefarious as his previous version, but in more of a natural and instinctive way. His design was a bit more radical, but was still kept in line with his iconic image of a trademark Rex-like stature with triple rows of spiny dorsal plates down his tail; rather then just some overgrown mutated iguana. His more traditional looking appearance returned (of course, a huge confidence booster for die hard G-fans), and now heading into a worldwide release, including the good old US for big screens everywhere. Toho, not surprisingly, pulls out all the stops in this re-imaging of the Big G yet again. The story revolving around his re-emergence around Japan, and the mysterious origin of a gigantic, ancient rock structure of sorts. Soon though, the Japanese discover the rock to actually be a UFO and all mayhem ensues when the now revealed spaceship -- hidden inside initially -- attempts to energize itself with the cells of Godzilla in order to regenerate itself. Godzilla doesn't exactly take kindly to unwelcomed visitors, so a battle of epic proportions soon begins. Godzilla and the UFO cause even more havoc & destruction in their climatic standoff, in which eventually, the alien spaceship digresses and reveals a life-form inside itself, which coincidentally begins to transforms into one ugly mother....well, its given the code name Orga, which is dreadfully uninspiring btw. Inevitably, the two beasties duke it out, and Tokyo is decimated yet again. The film will appeal to G-fans the best, because it's all back to basics with this film, even with Godzilla's new retro design. There are no gimmicks, tricks, or fads pulled out in this film; it's just a straightforward monster flick with some straightforward monster brawling action. And at least this time around, it really IS Godzilla! The US would have to wait until 2014 to get some bit of redemption in remaking another Godzilla project, albeit with a much better reception after handling Godzilla's overall design with more care. But the movie concept & tone, well, what can I say....we still need to keep working on it I suppose. There are future US sequels yet to come, as well as ANOTHER Japanese re-boot in store as well. Godzilla 2000 was a nice film though, and it was good to see him (the Japanese version) on the big screen when this movie was initially released. His fandom is definitely gonna stick around for the ages. Long live the King of Monsters! 3 1/2 Stars

Good remaster for Blu-ray, if you’re a fan, worth the purchase. Have seen for free on smart tv app, forget which one, but I still like to collect my discs

Always enjoy these Godzilla flicks! The first one in the Millennium series of Godzilla is not my favorite but its fun nonetheless!

I’m a huge Godzilla fan & this is definitely one of my favorite movies. The way godzilla looks in this movie is really cool especially his dorsal fins.

This is one of my favorite Godzilla movies of all time & it looks great on Blu-ray I highly recommend getting this for any Godzilla fan.

Godzilla after Godzilla. Lots of action cheese awesome story and a new monster. Worth the watch

What a great film, I really enjoy the film........

This was a very interesting look at one of the earlier Godzilla movies and I’m glad I got it

This was a great movie. The staff is always helpful with finding items for me.She

One of my favorite Godzilla movies out of the millennium collection

Always a big fan of the big guy. One of my favorite Godzilla movies.

Produced by Toho as a "take that" to the awful American remake from 1998, I thought this Godzilla movie was really great! I also found it much better than the bloated Series 2 (1984-1995) films, and to be as fun as any of the Series 1 (1954-1975) films! The story was intriguing, the characters were likeable (and thankfully fewer characters, unlike the Byzantine Series 2 characters), the special effects are impressive (almost to the level of the new Gamera movies, and it even uses some CGI!), there was actually more hardcore monster action (as opposed to the in-your-face laser light shows of the recent films), Takayuki Hattori's music was well done for a non-Akira Ifukube score, and the movie doesn't take itself too seriously! Godzilla here looks his best yet, and the Millennian/Orga is one of Godzilla's more bizarre adversaries! Although the public response to this film was surprisingly positive, I was rather discouraged to hear the same words that US critics used to describe Japanese SF films past, such as "cheesy" and "campy." Although I don't mind poking fun at Japanese SPFX, I just wish they weren't so meanspirited. Besides, old fashioned suitamation FX has been improving in Japanese films, especially with the aid of CGI! You have to give them credit. I was very happy to see this film in the theater (I saw the Japanese version later on), and that Tri-Star brought this film to the US, partially to apologize to the US fans for that American monstrosity! I think it's time for the US to appreciate Japanese SPFX, and maintain its fandom in the US. In short, I reccommend this movie!

I'm a Godzilla fan and definitely feel these releases are just higher quality overall than the previous dvd releases. Loses a star for not being a 2 movie bundle like the others. If your wanting to see what Godzilla is all about, these blu rays are a better start than some of the dvd collections that were released (some of those lack even subtitles)

I wanted to watch a Godzilla movie and this was the only one beatbuy had left not a bad movie but could be better

GODZILLA 2000 deserves to be out on Blu-ray !! This was one of my favorite " NEW WAVE " films since GODZILLA VS. BIOLLANTE was released . Story line is a bit different from the previous films , but interesting anyway ; a twist on the old 'Zilla plots we baby-boomers are used to . The special features are well worth the price of the disc alone . I just wished this had been re-done in 3-D ! The sound is awesome and picture quality is top notch . I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS FILM TO ALL TOHO FANS !!

Normally with reboots and remakes with Godzilla, he was always solo, but this time, he fought another monster. An interesting monster at that. According to Cinemassacre's Monster Madness, this was a counter to Godzilla 1998(Zilla), and it was worth it. The movie is just awesome. I'm still working on getting 9 more movies. It's a pity that the Japanese audio wasn't included. I usually listen to the english audio, but hey, why not include the original language as well.

This is the sort of presentation Godzilla fans want, the US version and the Japanese version together. It also proves the US version is a bit better than the original, even to the point where Toho uses it now instead of their dubbed version. Picture is great, subtitles are fine, but the movie is a little dull in parts. Since it's got both versions, it's a good buy.