One of the hallmarks of any of the Godzilla films from the 1950s to our current date has got to be incredibly bad special effects. Really bad...laughably bad. Godzilla 2000 does not fail to keep up that tradition.
It’s all here; the bad effects, poor vocal dubbing, transparent plot, and a giant rubber dinosaur with antisocial tendencies. This is like putting on old shoes; very familiar feeling, and not very different from any of the other abysmal Godzilla movies.
Basic plot:
A strange colossal rock has surfaced in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, awakening Godzilla from a long sleep. Godzilla apparently is grouchy after waking up, promptly attacking Tokyo, which by now must have mandatory Monster Insurance for all its citizens.
As the military assembles to attempt to drive off the angry lizard, the mysterious rock morphs into a blue spacecraft looking very much like a giant blue plastic prosthetic nose, which proceeds to fly over Tokyo, draining data from all the computers in the city.
Anyhow, Godzilla and the giant schozz square off in downtown Tokyo, the alien craft morphing into a huge creature for battle purposes.The standard cast is also here: the overly officious government rep who will stop at nothing to destroy both Godzilla and the alien ship, (no one cries when he gets toasted), the scientists trying to discover Godzilla’s origins and weaknesses, and the obligatory nosy child who has all the answers.
The movie is predictable across the board. The best moments were the unintentional bits that come from low-budget shlock movies like this one, for example, in one scene, as Godzilla rampages through downtown Tokyo, a delicatessen gets destroyed, and the very Japanese owner exclaims in badly dubbed German ’’Gott en Himmel!’’
This movie was originally hyped as a ’’new and improved’’ Godzilla movie, with supposedly ground breaking effects and story. I think they hyped it, but forgot to put that stuff in the actual movie.