This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Just perfect...

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Now, coming from a lifelong Godzilla fan, this film still kind of shocks me. Now when I first watched this film, and saw Zilla for the first time, I thought that Godzilla would show up later and would fight the monster. However toward the end of the film when I found out that was actually supposed to be Godzilla. I was in complete shock. I had no words. For one, the monster looks nothing like him, and his personality was nothing like Godzilla's. Godzilla's common personality was to go through and destroy everything in sight, this one, it just walks through New York not destroying anything. I mean, most of the destruction came from the military. And most damage Godzilla, sorry ZILLA created, was toward the end when he was going to die. Also, don't even get me started on the baby Zilla's. They look like the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park, and although the scenes don't look half bad, it's just to more of an Alien/Mutated version of the Jurassic Park raptors scene.Although you try to not focus on humans in Godzilla movies, the humans are just unbearable in the film. Being the most bland characters you can see in a movie. The only character that's actually interesting is Jean Reno. Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitillo just want to make you fall asleep. While the others can be viewed as just completely annoying.Now this movie wasn't all bad, I was definitely entertained by it in some scenes, however I just don't see it as a Godzilla film, because it really isn't. Even calling it Zilla is being nice, because I can't see it being remotely near Godzilla. I mean you don't see a movie of a Barbie Doll coming to life and then call it "Childs Play." No, this movie isn't bad, but it's not a Godzilla film in my mind. 4/10 stars below average.

As a genuine fan of the original Japanese Godzilla films, I have heard millions of negative comments about this film. The problem here is the fact that the creature is given then name Godzilla, but in the beginning, it is clear that it's not ACTUALLY Godzilla. A survivor of a Japanese fishing crew was asked, what did he see, and he knew only to answer "Godzilla" because that's probably what he thought it was, but this survivor only saw a claw or a foot. It's clear this monster is not meant to actually be Godzilla, so the main mistake this movie made was naming the creature Godzilla. I saw it when it came out in Theaters back in 1998. It's not a bad movie, it's watchable, it's not horrific and terrible in my opinion. I would watch it again, but I wouldn't call it Godzilla.

In between the post-Hiroshima anxiety of Gojira (1954) and the retributive-Gaia wonder of Godzilla (2014) there lies this Roland Emmerich disaster film, appropriately adapted to his action/comedy intensive priorities. Now let's talk about Zilla or GITO (Godzilla in Name Only). Creature designer Patrick Tatopolous (sound familiar?) was aware that Jan de Bont's cancelled Godzilla film had been rejected in-part because of disagreements with Toho concerning the character concepts. Tatopolous distanced his design from Toho's and De Bont's mostly out of his respect for the original Japanese monster. This distance pays off, visually. A problem I'd long had with Tsuburaya's monster was (relative realism considered) just how bottom-heavy he is. GITO is much more mobile than old Thunder-Thighs, which properly matched Emmerich's vision of a high-speed chase with a titanic reptile. Any Emmerich fan can at least appreciate the ways that this film avoids simply trying to one-up an already established cinematic mold.

Follows more or less traditional pattern of monster movie. Enbjoyable even though you know the good guys (we humans) will win out in the end, and the romantic aspect will be resolved suitably. Good-natured poking fun at a lost of familiar targets. A bit too long, in my opinion, but not for fans of the genre. Last scene with new monster being hatched there, i suppose, to allow for sequel, but still a kind of he (it)-who- laughs last laughs.