Gojira ni-sen mireniamu (1999)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Takao Okawara

Writers:

Hiroshi Kashiwabara (written by) &
Wataru Mimura (written by)

Release Date:

18 August 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Get ready to crumble.

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Godzilla | UFO | Orga | Creature | Japan

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Takehiro Murata	...	Prof. Yuji Shinoda
Hiroshi Abe	...	Mitsuo Katagiri
Naomi Nishida	...	Yuki Ichinose
Mayu Suzuki	...	Io Shinoda
Shirô Sano	...	Prof. Shiro Miyasaka
Takeshi Ôbayashi
Shirô Namiki
Sakae Kimura
Bengaru
Ken'ichi Nagira
Kenichi Ishii
Yoshimasa Kondô
Kôichi Ueda	...	Military Man
Yoshiyuki Omori
Masahiko Nishimura

Also Known As:

G2K: Godzilla 2000 (Canada: English title)
G2K: Millenium (International: English title) (short title)
Godzilla 2000 (USA)
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (Japan: English title)
Godzilla Millenium (International: English title)
Gojira 2000

MPAA:

Rated PG for monster violence and mild language.

Runtime:

99 min | Japan:107 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS (8 channels)

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Chile:TE | USA:PG (certificate #37522)

Filming Locations:

Japan

Company:

Toho Pictures Inc.

Trivia:

The first Godzilla movie to be released in American theaters since Gojira (1984).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Shinoda is reading the magazine article about Godzilla, we see a very blurry close-up picture of Godzilla's mouth with lights shining on it. This suggests that it's one of the pictures Yuki took in the tunnel when she was very close to Godzilla and the lights on Shinoda's car were shining on his face. However, the movie has already established that the film negatives were ruined by Godzilla's radiation.

Quotes:

[closing scene; US Version]
Shiro Miyasaka: We scientists produced this monster... Godzilla. And ever since, we tried to destroy him.
[Godzilla continues to trample through Shinjuku]
Yuki Ichinose: But then, why... Why does he keep protecting us?
Yuji Shinoda: Maybe because... Godzilla is inside each one of us!

Movie Connections:

References Yôsei Gorasu (1962)

a monster movie ne plus ultra review

This is the latest in the Toho Films series, and it should be noted that this movie is a GODZILLA movie, a genre unto itself. Not only is it an intelligent film, with likeable characters ( the Godzilla Prediction Unit is great, in the enthusiasm of scientists trying to understand Godzilla as a force of nature; besides that, who wouldn't want to be part of the GDU and have that cool Godzilla logo on the side of their transport vehicle? ) and a truly kinetic, enthusiastic script by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura--the most telling line of dialogue in the movie, which could be used to describe the love and respect the writers have, occurs when a television reporter comments that the entire proceeding is "like something out of a 1950s science fiction film."

And that is the point of this movie, to remind every one of us who grew up on monster movies that in the midst of all the ALIEN-stylized cinematic drool, that the giant UFO perched menacingly over Tokyo, shimmering with mysterious electronic pulsations while Godzilla ( with an underwater swimming scene for Godzilla that is priceless) stomps in for a classic samauri-like duel with the alien craft and its occupant, with all the Man In Suit and b-movie special effects you can stand, is the reason why many of us "creature feature" lovers continue going to the movies TODAY, because we're looking for something like GODZILLA 2000. A movie crafted with exquisite passion and respect, both for its subject and for its audience.

Go see this movie in a theatre, or be sorry you didn't. Thrill to the magnificent musical score (the best I've heard in a film this year), and the superior direction that provides Godzilla with power and heroism (yes, heroism; Godzilla's reasons for alternately destroying Tokyo, but fighting against alien forces to save it, demonstrates what all us monster freaks know: Godzilla is intelligent, and has his reasons). I dare you to go and see Godzilla blast away with his atomic breath and not be ready to come up out of your seat with joy. This movie is undiluted greatness, from beginning to end.