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Buy This Item Godzilla  Available from Amazon  Click 'BUY IT NOW' to get price.  on 11-15-2008     As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit that <I>Godzilla</I> 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 <I>Independence Day</I> 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 <I>Jurassic Park</I> 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. <i>--Jeff Shannon</i> Reader Reviews I enjoyed Godzilla 1998 during it's initial movie theater run. Yeah, I too was a little surprised by the new look of the creature, but I was sure glad it didn't look like a guy in an overstuffed rubber suit using the tail to rock back and forth on his heels...I'll leave that to the Godzilla purists who are much better at suspending disbelief. Don't get me wrong, I thought the original Godzilla movie was great, but I was five years old at the time! Godzilla 1998 was scheduled for a late March 2008 release on Blu-ray, and then Sony postponed it with a TBA. I think it will look fantastic in High-Def...if or when it ever gets here.

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