Saw "Godzilla 200." Utterly enchanting. None of this digital crap -- it's a guy in a rubber suit, the way nature intended. Wonderfully insane English-dubbing of Japanese actors. And the effects aren't at all cheesy. There's an air attack on ol' Goddy as he wades through a river bed near downtown Tokyo that's better than anything I've seen in action films in some time. It ends,quite traidionally on a set of ruined sections of what's supposedto be Tokyo, but might be more properly described (cinematically speaking) as Godzillaville. He's fighting off a space creature (long buried under the sea and inadvertently awakened by a team of scientists who think it's a rock) that first appears as a giant flying Elsa Peretti brooch -- before transmorgrifying into a monster worthy of doing battle with our hero.
The kids at the All-Media screening were delighted by it no end.
