Review of Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) by Marc C — 15 May 2014

Laughable to death, it is. Fun or reliable, it isn't. This Millennium series isn't looking good so far, it seems it needs to learn how to execute things well. This Godzilla movie is beyond boring, it's mostly a pain to sit through. It doesn't feature good special effects or memorable monster fights. Not even a memorable new monster!

Megaguirus is one of the most average monsters in the saga, similar to that time in the Showa era when the Godzilla movies where kid-oriented. The monster's special effects are crap for the most part and mostly laughable, but not memorable. The story is pretty standard and mediocre, the characters aren't likeable and Godzilla feels downplayed. I don't know how they can fuck it up so constantly and yet so inconsistently. At least the Heisei series picked the pace in the second movie, but here, it makes it harder to pick. And it was a disappointment, because the movie's opening looked very great and staged an environment, but it disappears after 20 minutes without any sight of Godzilla.

What a mess. This movie makes Godzilla look bad, closer to what Roland Emmerich did with the monster. There are only 4 more movies, and it doesn't look good so far. I hope there's one good movie in this Millennium series.