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As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit that Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd-pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. There's really no other way to approach it--you just have to accept the fact that Independence Day creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are unapologetic plagiarists, incapable of anything more than mindless spectacle that can play in any cinema in the world without dubbing or subtitles. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s; it's little more than a rehash of the Jurassic Park movies. The derivative script is so trivial that it's unworthy of comment, apart from a few choice laughs and the casting of Michael Lerner as New York's mayor, whose name is Ebert and who closely resembles a certain well-known movie critic. Perhaps that's a clever hint that this movie's essentially critic-proof. It's stupid but it's fun, and for most audiences that's a fitting definition of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. --Jeff Shannon
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As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit that Godzilla delivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. There's really no other way to approach it--you just have to accept the fact that Independence Day creators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are unapologetic plagiarists, incapable of anything more than mindless spectacle that can play in any cinema in the world without dubbing or subtitles.
The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s; it's little more than a rehash of the Jurassic Park movies. The derivative script is so trivial that it's unworthy of comment, apart from a few choice laughs and the casting of Michael Lerner as New York's mayor, whose name is Ebert and who closely resembles a certain well-known movie critic. Perhaps that's a clever hint that this movie's essentially critic-proof. It's stupid but it's fun, and for most audiences that's a fitting definition of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
As stated on the BluRay Cover back side:
Audio Feature Picture
English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio; French 5.1 DTS-HD MA; German 5.1 DTS-HD MA
Audio Special Features
English Mono & English Stereo
Subtitles Feature Picture
English (hard of hearing), Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Subtitles Special Features
English
Marked A, B, C all regions
And no ugly German Age restrictions ;-)
Audio Feature Picture
English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio; French 5.1 DTS-HD MA; German 5.1 DTS-HD MA
Audio Special Features
English Mono & English Stereo
Subtitles Feature Picture
English (hard of hearing), Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Subtitles Special Features
English
Marked A, B, C all regions
And no ugly German Age restrictions ;-)
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
As usual, when looking for a review of a film on Amazon you have to wade through dozens of irrelevant ones for other format versions to find a smattering of fairly unhelpful ones of the actual product. This review is only for the blu ray version, and I won't bother discussing the film itself; if you're looking at blu ray versions you more than likely have already seen the film and liked it enough to upgrade, like me. Regarding the blu ray quality - it's excellent. I didn't find it excessively grainy and I have to say it's a hell of a lot clearer than the dvd version. Many complaints about this film were over the fact that you couldn't see enough because it was always dark and rainy. Not a problem here; still dark and rainy, but the sharpness of the blu ray image makes the details stand out. I got a lot more from this than from the dvd. The sound is better, even if you're not using a home cinema system and just a standard HD tv with dolby. The menu is entertaining, too - if you don't select immediately you get a cgi meander down the street to the accompaniment of huge, reverberating footsteps. The extras are a Godzilla trivia quiz, a visual effects commentary, Behind the Scenes with Charles Caiman, a round up of best Godzilla fight scenes, and a music video by the Wallflowers. It's widescreen format (2:40:1), audio in English, German and French DTS-HD MA, and subtitles for English (HOH and standard), Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish and Turkish. It loses a star because when all's said and done, I really like the old Japanese Godzilla stuff and would have liked a bit more in the movie related to those. But maybe someday someone will put out remastered blu rays of the originals, so I'll be able to relish them more.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you've read my other reviews about Independence Day and Stargate, the same creators of Godzilla, you'll probably know that I enjoyed them both. But here they've not made such a good film. I saw this at the Cinema in 1998 and did enjoy it, don't get me wrong about that, but it didn't seem to have much detail about Godzilla himself. The Special Effects, being done by the same people who did Independence Day, are excellent, but the film seems to be more involved about the cast than the Monster. There are more things about this movie I don't like, like the script, being terrible, but apart from that this film features Good Special Effects, Entertainment and humour throughout. Hopefully the creators will make up for the mistake of Godzilla in their new film The Day After Tomorrow coming out later this year, which I am looking forward to. This film also features some very good extras on it, like The Special Effects Team Commentary
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Action packed and very entertaining!
Those who are giving this negative reviews are entitled to their own opinion, they are wrong, but they are entitled to their own opinion. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Sam
A FIVE STAR FILM (TO ME)
Its a great film, wwaaaaaaayyy better then the original 1954 version.
2 hours of blood pumping action, who wouldnt luv it!
2 hours of blood pumping action, who wouldnt luv it!
Published 19 months ago by ben
Emmerich's best
Ever since the 1950s the Japanese movie industry has produced a boatload of terrible, low-budget Godzilla (or Gojira) movies. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Tue Sorensen
Godzilla belongs to japan not america
Godzilla will always belong to the japanese,the reason american filmakers made this is because they have no orginal movie ideas so they steal from other countries. Read more
Published 22 months ago by farrow
someone rate the Blu-ray ?
Just came here to see any reviews on the Blu-ray quality..anyone care to comment ?
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. L. J. Harold
godzilla dvd
I ordered this item at the beginning of june. it still has not arrived. it was meant to be a birthday present for my son. id like to know where my product is please.
Published 23 months ago by shez
Oh soo nice!
I loved this on DVD, and must have seen it a hundered times, so i wasnt expecting anything new. It's just sharper and more colourful. Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2009 by A. Hall
disappointing transfer
I was looking forward to this as i thought it would look and sound amazing, well it does neither. there is extreme grain throughout the movie and the sound give no sense of scale. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2009 by J. F. Northfield
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