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- 1998
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 2 h 19 m
- 1998
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 2 h 19 m
Summary Godzilla does Manhattan in this variation on the Japanese A-bomb monster movie classic.
Directed By: Roland Emmerich
Written By: Dean Devlin, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roland Emmerich
- 1998
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 2 h 19 m
- 1998
- PG-13
- TriStar Pictures
- 2 h 19 m
Godzilla
32
5.0
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Summary Godzilla does Manhattan in this variation on the Japanese A-bomb monster movie classic.
Directed By: Roland Emmerich
Written By: Dean Devlin, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Roland Emmerich
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
32
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
52% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
32
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
39% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
52% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
An expertly designed theme park ride of a movie that packs nonstop thrills.
The movie is of minimum interest; the story of the movie, however -- or, rather, of the way in which it has been engulfed by its own publicity -- is bound to fascinate connoisseurs of cultural meltdown.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 276 User Ratings
5.0
29% Positive
80 Ratings
80 Ratings
37% Mixed
101 Ratings
101 Ratings
34% Negative
95 Ratings
95 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 276 User Ratings
5.0
29% Positive
80 Ratings
80 Ratings
37% Mixed
101 Ratings
101 Ratings
34% Negative
95 Ratings
95 Ratings
Godzilla is so clumsily structured it feels as if it's two different movies stuck together with an absurd stomping finale glued onto the end.
The dialogue is dumb ('zilla has the best lines, "arrrrrggh" and "maaroarrr"), New York is waterlogged, and Godzilla isn't on screen enough.
The makers of Godzilla obviously devoted so much manpower and time and energy and money to the admittedly fabulous special effects that they apparently had no budget left over for actors.
Watching inept American actors and wishing they were badly dubbed into Japanese isn't any fun at all.
O filme é uma maravilha injustiçada pelos críticos!! E por que o filme teria que agradaf od criadores de Godzilla hein?!
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During a nuclear test, the French government inadvertently mutates a lizard nest; years later, a giant lizard makes its way to New York City. Dr. Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), an expert on the effects of radiation on animals, is sent by the U.S. government to study the beast. When the creature, dubbed "Godzilla" by news outlets, emerges, a massive battle with the military begins. To make matters worse, Niko discovers that Godzilla has laid a nest of 200 eggs, which are ready to hatch.
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Roland Emmerich must be the director most feared by New Yorkers, as their city is almost always devastated in his films. This happened in "The Day After Tomorrow", "Independence Day" and "2012", as it happens throughout this film, which is basically about the attack that a gigantic marine lizard decides to do against New York.
The plot is all a little too imaginative and there are a lot of things that don't make sense. For example, it is unlikely that radiation from atomic tests would have caused a normal lizard to grow to the size of a ****, and even more difficult to parallel this with an abnormal growth of a few inches in the Chernobyl earthworms (unless some of them have become the creatures we see in "Tremors", another film about grown monsters). The arrival in New York brings more stupid things: the monster shrinks and increases to the taste and needs of the film, the military are totally made of fools and humiliated at all times and who saves the day is a nerdy scientist with an unpronounceable name and a French military spy who likes to make stupid jokes at the most inappropriate times. The end is just as bad and strange, and the creature's very appearance is quite strange, looking like a weird dinosaur.
The cast is full of well-known names, like Matthew Broderick (very competent in comedy, but totally wasted and strange here) Maria Pitillo makes a walking caricature, and the whole cast seems little interested in doing something good. French actor Jean Reno, in the most forgettable non-French speaking role in his filmography, gives us the best interpretation, which is to say a lot about the film.
The film still has a serious problem with rhythm, with huge sections where nothing happens and that just take up space and make the film longer than necessary. To add to that, the bad visual, special and sound effects and liters of bad CGI, fake at first glance, boring and without anything impressive. The soundtrack is great, but it is meaningless in such a hollow film and ends up sounding too presumptuous.
This is definitely a monstrous monster movie.
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Awards
Razzie Awards
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
