An expertly designed theme park ride of a movie that packs nonstop thrills.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Gary Kamiya
The plot is about as ridiculous as you'd expect, but for the most part its absurdities are tolerable.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
There are some clever and exciting sequences, but this $120 million epic of reconstituted Atomic Age trash lumbers more than it thrills.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Godzilla is so clumsily structured it feels as if it's two different movies stuck together with an absurd stomping finale glued onto the end.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
Size really is about all that this tedious, underpopulated beanbag of an epic has going for it.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The script isn't just "dumbed down," it's lobotomized.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A big, ugly, ungainly device to give teenagers the impression they are seeing a movie.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
The makers of Godzilla obviously devoted so much manpower and time and energy and money to the admittedly fabulous special effects that they apparently had no budget left over for actors.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Rita Kempley
Size vanquishes both substance and subtlety in the overhyped, half-cocked and humorless resurrection of dear old "Godzilla."Read Full Review »