Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Michael_Elliott Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah (2001) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Fifty years after destroying Tokyo (their math is a bit off) Godzilla returns to kick everyone's ass but Mothra, Ghidorah and a big turtle show up to try and fight him. This is the first of the "newer" Godzilla films I've seen and it's nice to know the screenwriter and director have a brain by actually having the creatures on the screen for the most part of the film. All four monsters are constantly on screen while the humans are kept in the background, which is great because we want to see the monsters. I saw the English dubbed version so I'm not sure if more "human" stuff was cut out or not. If it was cut out then good. The special effects are questionable to say the least. The three heroes looked very good but Godzilla's look was a bit strange. The CGI effects really didn't work too well but they did earn a few laughs.

Joseph Savitski When Godzilla debuted in 1954 (1956 here), he certainly wasn't a hero. But over the years, his image softened and he morphed into a character to root for instead of fear. His comeback in 2000 gave him a sleek new look, but never really returned him to a creature to send chills down your spine.That all changed with this film. Granted, it takes the big guy a while to make his appearance. But when he finally arrives.....dear God......Forget the cartoonish look of the 70s, the spiny streamlined look of the Millennium series, the rodentlike look from "Final Wars", or the dinosaur-like makeover from the Hesei series. This is a feral, evil Godzilla with souless blank eyes, razor sharp teeth, and a yen for total destruction. This is a monster, one to be feared and watched with awe in your heart.The monster battles are fantastic to watch, as they fight for survival with wild fury. No quarter is asked or given, and the combat on screen rivals anything you'd see on the Discovery Channel nature shows. The plot is probably one of the most imaginative of the Godzilla series, and shows daring to take Godzilla in a bold new direction. Its also the most realistic, showing exactly how much collateral damage would result from a battle royale of giant monsters.In conclusion, if you have to watch a Godzilla film--THIS IS IT!!!!

vtcavuoto I have to say that if you enjoy seeing sparks flying around,disasters and explosions, this is your movie! I wonder how many pounds of pyrotechnics they used. The monsters are a combination of either suitmation(actor in a costume) or CGI. They blend in very well. The story goes like this: Godzilla comes back and it is up to the three Guardian monsters to save Japan. Of course, Godzilla kicks their butts.At the end of the movie,it seems that Godzilla is destroyed but at the bottom of the ocean is his beating heart. Pretty cool stuff. The dubbing is average, the acting is decent but the special effects are awesome. I have to admit I enjoyed this movie for the special effects if not for anything else. Still, it is fun to watch.

Jangobadass The "Gozilla" movie series has gotten a bad reputation over the years as overlong toy commercials for undiscriminating children and nerds with no standards. Well, the next time someone knocks the Godzilla movies, you should show them this entry.This is the way Godzilla himself was meant to be. Not a giant superhero like in the movies from the sixties and seventies. Not some big animal just trying to make it in the world like in the nineties series. The Godzilla depicted here is all powerful, pure evil, and nigh-unstoppable, the just way he was in 1954.The thing most people don't realize is that the more serious a giant monster movie is, the better. And Shusuke Kaneko takes his monsters seriously, as anyone who's seen the 90s "Gamera" movies will tell you.Unlike most of the series where cities were destroyed yet casualties were barely (if ever) mentioned or shown (you'd see people running away or standing around watching, but hardly ever killed), when a city gets destroyed in this movie, a lot people die and we see it. We see the people in the buildings just before they topple or are crushed. We see the people running and screaming just before they're vaporized by Godzilla's beam. We see the soldiers fighting Godzilla die instead of him just frying seemingly unmanned toy jets and tanks. In an early scene where, a woman gets pounded when all the pots and pans in her kitchen fall from the walls and shelf just because of Godzilla's footsteps.The "Godzilla verses other monster(s)" action is at some of it's all time best here. No Saturday morning style, over the top, highly unbelievable fights here. Baragon, Mothra, and King Ghidorah fight Godzilla with their claws, jaws, and a few simple abilities (Baragon's burrowing, Mothra's stingers, Ghidorah's electric bite) instead of everyone firing beams at each other with little or no effect and using silly wrestling moves.The monsters themselves come off particularly effective this time around. Godzilla is very fearsome and looks the more like a dinosaur than ever, using his mouth ray as the ultimate weapon. Mothra gets new hornet-like look that makes her(?) much more intimidating. Baragon gets some great moments, mainly because he was barely used in the older movies. He makes surprisingly good use of his meager burrowing ability and puts up a good fight for a little guy. One wishes that Kaneko had been allowed to use Angilas and Varan like he wanted to before Toho made him use Mothra and Ghidorah just because they're more popular and would attract a bigger audience.Ghidorah, sadly, doesn't fare so well. While the idea of Godzilla's mortal enemy playing the hero is kind of fitting, there's something about his new look that doesn't stick. He's much shorter, has somewhat dog like faces, his wings are droopy and almost useless until he powers up near the end, with his mouth beams are sadly absent until said power up.The humans characters are the best here since the first Godzilla movie. For once you actually care about these people instead of wishing they'd hurry up and go away. The humans here act like actual people with actual concerns instead of the usual gang of annoying, unlikable idiots and whiners with lame personalities and motivations.The plot has a lot to do with spiritual energy and mysticism, but Kaneko makes it work surprisingly well, which is a nice change of pace from all that junk about aliens, weird mutations and high tech science mumbo jumbo that doesn't make much sense that the Toho writers like to fall back on.A lot of people were initially disappointed with it for some reason. Something about "hurried pace and not enough development". But in future years, when compared to lesser entries of the Godzilla series, this will probably be considered the second best Godzilla movie, after the first one of course.