French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 13 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis movie features more Simpson voice actors than any other project besides The Simpsons (1989) itself: Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer and Nancy Cartwright. When the Simpsons later did a Godzilla parody called Homerzilla, they referenced that "Homerzilla" received a Hollywood remake that failed, a jab at this movie. The episode ends stating that Homerzilla will one day return just as soon as that "Zilla" film is forgotten.
- GoofsBased on the width and depth of the Hudson River, it would be impossible for a Los Angeles Submarine to navigate submerged, let alone make high speed turns.
- Quotes
Apache Pilot: [after accidentally hitting the Chrysler Building with a missile, blowing the roof off of it] Aw, damn, uh... That is a negative impact. I repeat, that is a negative impact.
Radio Technician #3: Negative impact, sir.
Mayor Ebert: [shocked] Negative impact? That's the goddamned Chrysler Building we're talking about here.
- Crazy creditsWhen the Centropolis Entertainment logo completes, they segueing it to the reel to start the opening sequence
- ConnectionsEdited into Angels in America (2003)
- SoundtracksHeroes
Written by David Bowie & Brian Eno
Produced by Andrew Slater
Performed by The Wallflowers
Courtesy of Interscope Records
"Godzilla" (1998) is definitely not a bad guilty pleasure movie. It has pretty good special effects, nice pacing and some good action sequences involving Godzilla himself. Well its not entirely a Godzilla everyone knows, its more of a dinosaur but still its a good looking creature, especially when it interacts with environment (city buildings in this case). The downsides of this movie were pretty lame script at the moments, zero chemistry between Matthew Broderick and Maria Pitillo (and her poor performance as well) and just the look of this movie - literally almost all movie time action takes place at night, sure because its much more easier (and cheaper) to make all the big special effects sequences in a bloody dark, but not so much fun to watch it.
Overall, "Godzilla" is a guilty pleasure. As a pure fun flick it does its job, nothing else and nothing more. A pure guilty pleasure.
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Quái Vật Godzilla
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $130,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $136,314,294
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $44,047,541
- May 24, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $379,014,294
- Runtime2 hours 19 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1