An interesting exercise in nostalgia as well as an informative look at the origins of a sci-fi giant who's stamped through nearly 30 films.
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05/13/04
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Gojira (1954)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:52
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: More than straight monster-movie fare, Gojira offers potent, sobering postwar commentary.
Theatrical Release:May 7, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: The testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean triggers the awakening of a dreadful, 400-foot-tall, fire-breathing prehistoric lizard who commences to wreak havoc on the city of Tokyo. The... [More]
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Reviews for Gojira
Top CriticThe original is different [in ways that] make it a clearly better film....Still, the American recutting...produced some arguably worthwhile qualities [not] in the original.
05/13/04
Can now be appreciated not just as a minor classic of tragic destruction, but also as a somber exploration of conflicted postwar emotions.
05/12/04
A collective metaphor and a collective nightmare, a message film that says more than its message, that captures, with a horrified poetry, the terrors that stomped through the minds of people 50 years ago.
05/07/04
Top CriticGodzilla's rampages are still intact, but they now have new meaning. The film builds to them and pays off after them, unlike in the American version.
05/06/04
Godzilla is back, and he still has something to teach us.
05/06/04
Godzilla is now more 'serious,' yet its tone just veers closer to that of solemn American B-horror cheese like Them!
05/06/04
Top CriticFor today's moviegoing audiences, this may not be your daddy's Godzilla movie, but chances are your granddaddy could teach you a thing or two about the context.
05/06/04
As crass as it is visionary, Godzilla belongs with -- and might well trump -- the art films Hiroshima Mon Amour and Dr. Strangelove as a daring attempt to fashion a terrible poetry from the mind-melting horror of atomic warfare.
05/04/04
Top CriticWhile the Raymond Burr version is unintentionally funny, the original Japanese-language version is actually a tedious bore. But the Big G is still the king!
04/20/04
A classic monster movie and a sombre reflection of Japan's suffering in the wake of large-scale fire-bombings and atomic attack.
05/24/03
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05/07/03
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01/30/03
Japan's classic monster movie in its original and better form.
09/02/02
Godzilla remains one of the most potent mythic structures of the 50s, and you get him here in full foot-stomping glory.
07/24/01
Top CriticThis is a film with some very nice visual imagery and it has become a favorite.
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