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Godzilla 2000 / Gojira ni-sen mireniamu / G2K / Godzilla 2000: Millenium / Gojira 2000 / Japan / 1999

Takao Okawara’s great middle-finger salute to Roland Emmerich. And considering Okawara’s track record with Tanaka’s franchise—bringing it back to its smirking glory after the barren 1980s and offering us eternal duels between the giant atom-baby and his mechanized equal, among others—he seems like the perfect person to have made such a grand reintroduction. (Godzilla 2000, according to the IMDb “Trivia” section, was the first Gojira movie in fifteen years to be shown in American theatres.) There’s the man in the rubber suit, the cardboard cityscapes, the constant human struggle between good and evil, not to mention hordes of bad extras running in front of a screen like, well, bad extras. And, to sweeten the proverbial pot, the entire film is dubbed haphazardly by a slew of grunting English voices without a single subtitle option—or at least none that I could find. Yes, Godzilla 2000, along with all its predecessors, is campy and atrocious, but at least it set out to be that way.

by Adam Balz | Source: DVD
24 Apr 2008 1:30 PM | Comments (1)

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1. Devin / 24 April 2008 / 12:15 PM / URL

   The best part is that, on the DVD, there’s a commentary track with the producers of the American version, basically patting themselves on the back for doing such a good job with the dubbing.