All kidding aside, this is great addition to the series, that is if you care for Godzilla movies. Personally, I could watch these films all day long. There's something endearing about a huge radioactive lizard who trashes everything but then protects mankind from evil spacemen and other monsters.
"Godzilla 2000" features the big guy taking on a flying rock that's really the cover for a space vehicle - they want to take over the planet, natch. As a side plot, there's a friendly scientist, Shinoda, and his daughter, Io, who run a Godzilla tracking network, and an evil businessman, Katagiri. Shinoda wants to protect Godzilla and learn from him, Katagiri wants to kill him.
There's not a heck of a lot to the plot. Katagiri's men uncover what they think is a huge meteorite from the ocean, but it turns out to be the spacemen's saucer. Once freed and able to draw power from the sun, it takes off for Tokyo where it begins to drain all the data out of the computers so as to learn how to seize control of the Earth for themselves. Godzilla is one one of his regular rampages and goes after the saucer - big fight ensues with much collateral damage.
After trashing the space monster (the saucer morphs into some sort of thing that kinda looks like a big version of the creature from "Alien"), Godzilla goes after Katagiri and finishes him off. Film ends with Shinoda and the girl wondering why Godzilla keeps saving man when all we try to do is kill him. The answer: we created him and there's a little bit of Godzilla in all of us.
OK, some gratuitous philosophy amidst all the carnage, but maybe this is the beginning of a zen-like take on the Godzilla myth. Maybe future Godzilla films will have the big guy seeking to balance the planet and save mankind from himself.
"Godzilla 2000" features the big guy taking on a flying rock that's really the cover for a space vehicle - they want to take over the planet, natch. As a side plot, there's a friendly scientist, Shinoda, and his daughter, Io, who run a Godzilla tracking network, and an evil businessman, Katagiri. Shinoda wants to protect Godzilla and learn from him, Katagiri wants to kill him.
There's not a heck of a lot to the plot. Katagiri's men uncover what they think is a huge meteorite from the ocean, but it turns out to be the spacemen's saucer. Once freed and able to draw power from the sun, it takes off for Tokyo where it begins to drain all the data out of the computers so as to learn how to seize control of the Earth for themselves. Godzilla is one one of his regular rampages and goes after the saucer - big fight ensues with much collateral damage.
After trashing the space monster (the saucer morphs into some sort of thing that kinda looks like a big version of the creature from "Alien"), Godzilla goes after Katagiri and finishes him off. Film ends with Shinoda and the girl wondering why Godzilla keeps saving man when all we try to do is kill him. The answer: we created him and there's a little bit of Godzilla in all of us.
OK, some gratuitous philosophy amidst all the carnage, but maybe this is the beginning of a zen-like take on the Godzilla myth. Maybe future Godzilla films will have the big guy seeking to balance the planet and save mankind from himself.