Anybody knows the best way to ruin a movie is to take an international icon and make it into an American movie: take 1998’s dreadful Godzilla. Boasting a huge budget and lots of B-list actors, Godzilla was a mess of a movie.

The first problem with Godzilla is the length: a whopping three hours. Movies that are three hours long should be historical epics such as Braveheart, not B-movies! In those painful three hours, you are forced to squirm through more rip-offs than any other movie ever made? Alien? Check. Jurassic Park? Check.

While I admire Matthew Broderick’s courage to star in a Godzilla movie, I shudder at his performance. Granted, it’s probably the best one in the film, but that’s not saying a lot. The scenes are all usually too dark to see anything, probably covering up the shoddy computer animation—some looks incredible, while others look disproportionate.

They are supposed to be making a sequel to this movie. They claim it will have more monsters and be in the spirit of the older Godzilla movies. I wish them luck, but cringe at their willingness to make a sequel to an awful movie such as this one.

I give Godzilla (1998) * out of ****.

I did not know that this movie was a whole 3 hours long. That's probably because I've successfully blocked most of it out. I now have great anger toward Mat for bringing back some of my memory of this movie, in the form of violent flashbacks. Damn, this was a bad movie. Nuclear worms?! what the hell was Mathew Broderick thinking when he agreed to do this movie? Mat pretty much covers all of my complints about this movie, so I'll just stop now, and try to forget it again.

* out of ****