A dense and gloomy fog surrounds the Japanese countryside adjacent to the ocean as a scientist and his young daughter set up sensors to detect the monster Godzilla. In a nearby lighthouse, a bored watchman is looking out the window when he sees a fishing boat mysteriously floating past.... crunched in the huge jaws of the terrifying beast. Scientist Shinoda, his young daughter Io, and this annoying lady journalist drive downthe overpass tunnel... and almost drive right off the cliff. Not only was the ocean smashing furiously against the rocks below.... 

...but the radioactive beast was towering above!

With Shinoda driving in reverse like a bat out 
of hell and the annoying journalist screaming, 
they narrowly escape certain death. Godzilla 
destroys an electrical power plant as Shinoda 
hypothesizes that Godzilla is showing its hatred 
of manmade energy. 
Meantime, an amazing discovery is made at the
bottom of the ocean... a huge meteorite that 
commences to float to the surface of the ocean 
of its own accord. Godzilla wades ashore to face 
off against the Japanese Defense Forces. A newly
developed missile is deployed against Godzilla, 
blowing huge gaping holes in its hide and causing
the monster considerable discomfort. However, as 
usual, it proves utterly useless as far as destroying 
Godzilla goes.

Inexplicably, the meteorite takes off and 
hurtles at breakneck speed toward Godzilla. 
Slowing down, the UFO faces off against 
Godzilla. Delving deep, deep, deep into 
Godzilla's chromosomal structure, the aliens 
locate a strange component of Godzilla's 
genetic makeup. Firing a powerful bolt of 
energy, the ship manages to knock the Lizard 
King on its duff.
Angrily, Godzilla rises to its feet. Its spines begin 
to crackle and glow orange with radioactivity. 
The UFO fires another cannon blast. Godzilla 
hits the UFO with its (newly redesigned and VERY 
well done) nuclear atomic plasma (colored orange!) 
The fight is temporarily ended when the monster 
is knocked back into the water, with its atomic 
weapon still exploding from its open jaws, and 
the UFO heads away from the battle to plunk itself 
into the ocean, apparently dead.

Scientist Shinoda makes the awesome discovery 
of what he terms Organizer G-1... a feature of 
Godzilla's cellular structure that enables any 
bodily injury inflicted on the monster to be 
instantaneously healed. His former colleague 
Katagiri (effectively portrayed by Hiroshi Abe) 
does not share his interest in Godzilla's cellular 
and biological secrets. All he wants to do is to 
destroy Godzilla.
The UFO re-activates and flies off toward downtown 
Tokyo where it settles on top of the Civilians' Center,
there to take control over the entire worldwide network
of computers. It searches for all manner of information 
on Earth life forms in general... Godzilla in particular.

Shinoda hurries to rescue the annoying journalist, 
who seems destined to fall victim to her own 
stubbornness by staying in a building which is 
about to be bombed to hell by the military. (Yes,
everyone eventually gets out ok!) Then Godzilla 
arrives on the scene. First engaging in battle with
the UFO, it tries in vain to destroy the Mother Ship. 
The ship tries to subdue the beast by lassoing it in
miles and miles of ISDN cable. Godzilla uses its 
nuclear pulse to free itself.
The Ship tries all manner of onslaught to destroy 
Godzilla, from its cannon to showering Godzilla 
with massive shock waves, to burying it with rubble. 
At this point, the mother ship collects data on the 
part of Godzilla's biology that renders it invincible. 
The alien craft attempts to assume Godzilla's form.
It begins to form first a small genetic ball, then a 
tentacular squid like shape, and finally a horrible monster.

Godzilla is faced with a monster that has absolutely 
zero chance of being defeated by external use of its 
atomic ray. No matter how many times Godzilla zaps 
it, Orga keeps regenerating. Then Orga latches onto 
Godzilla's arm and sinks its teeth deep into its foes' 
flesh, vampirically draining Godzilla of its life force. 
Godzilla manages to repel its foe's assault. Then, 
to the horror of the human onlookers, Orga opens its 
mouth. The monster's maw opened invitingly, like an 
unearthly waterflower; the graceful, celestial beauty 
unnervingly belied the terrible and deadly invitation 
to Godzilla.

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Godzilla bends over to investigate and Orga clamps 
down on Godzilla like a dread mutant boa constrictor,
attempting to swallow the beast whole. To the onlookers'
astonishment, Orga began to sprout the same daggerlike
fins! Suddenly, Godzilla's entire body began to glow. 
With a loud thundering crack, Orga suddenly bursts asunder. 
Godzilla roared in triumph as the pitifully dismembered
stump disintegrated into nothingness.

Godzilla then lumbers over to where the humans are. 
Facing off against the man who had tried to kill him, 
Godzilla slams his claws into where Katagiri stands, 
killing him. Then, as if respecting the protective powers 
of the divine God, Godzilla wandered off and left the 
innocent ones untouched. Shinoda, his daughter, and 
the others watch in unequaled awe as a viciously enraged 
Godzilla strikes out at the city of Tokyo, dramatically 
setting it ablaze in one of the most capivating endings 
of any Godzilla film.

WAS G2K TOHO'S ANSWER TO TRIZILLA?!?!

Godzilla Millenium was the first G film to hit the big screen 
since Dean Devlin's flop of two years prior. While Tri-star's 
special effects were most superior to Toho's as far as 
believability goes (C'mon, water doesn't just evaporate 
when it splashes!) Toho simply does a better job when 
it comes to the creatures re-design. Unfortunately, Toho 
seems to have gone overboard when it comes to borrowing 
concepts from the Tri-Star flop. For example, the boat in 
Godzilla's jaws vs. the truck in Deanzilla's...the roiling
hump of water pierced only by the fins scenes in both 
films...the let's-try-and-see-if-we-can-get-away-from-
the-monster-by-driving-through-an-
overpass-tunnel-like-an-idiot scenes in both films... 
the attempts in both films to blow the monster to kingdom come using missiles that lodge themselves in Godzilla's flesh... the scenes in both films where the heroes get a 
good look at how Godzilla needs to brush and floss every day, and get a good dose of being screamed at... you get the picture!
There were a few good, original concepts such as the 
planes banking upward over Godzilla's head in a dramatic maneuver that only the most experienced pilots would try, and the attempt by Orga to swallow Godzilla. While the musical score is perfectly acceptable, I think whoever did it tried to emulate the score of Tri-star's Fraudzilla a little too closely. Sadly, there will never be a monster movie music composer quite as talented as Akira Ifukube.
On the whole, I gave Godzilla 2000 one and a half thumbs up and 3 1/2 stars. I think it's a perfectly acceptable apology for what Tri-star did to poor Godzilla and its nice to see the Big (GREEN!!!) Guy back where he belongs.