Features are quite slim for a movie so heavily promoted and hyped. The best feature is an effects commentary from three of the staff: Volker Engel, Karen Goulekas, and the person responsible for the look of the monster, Patrick Tatopoulos. If you have any interest in special effects, this is a great track to listen to, though it is lead by Engel. Personally, a track with Emmerich and Devlin explaining this atrocity would be more desirable.
The rest of the disc rounds itself off quietly. A short seven-minute featurette is just promotional fluff hosted by Harry Shearer. A music video by the Wallflowers uses not only film footage, but also a few effect shots of its own. "Godzilla Takes New York" shows the city before and after the unwelcome visitor made landfall. Finally, a large selection of trailers (including some for the real Godzilla films) round out the disc, though the classic New Years Eve one where the tail of the beast knocks over the ball is missing. (***)
This is nothing more than a complete travesty. Thankfully, the reception the film received failed to generate interest for a sequel, even with the cliffhanger ending (though it was picked up for a cartoon series, which was actually better than the film). We can only hope someone in Hollywood doesn't get the bright idea to resurrect this one sometime in the future.
Article comments
1 - Ralph Preedy, Hoboken NJ
In my opinion, Godzilla (1998) was a travesty. I went in hoping for something good and came out totally disappointed. Godzilla looked horrible. Devlin and Emmerich should have followed Toho's guidelines for the movie. It probably would have made a difference. If they make another in the future, please stick to Toho's advice and follow the "King's" roots. The Japanese Godzilla will always be No. 1.
2 - Corey Page
You have to keep in mind the target audience. If you think a movie buff would be entertained by this travesty, you are wrong, but for the common people who couldn't tell you who even directed the deal and just want to see a giant monster trample through New York, you are spot on. Although true Gojira Fans are very dissapointed, i can tell you that they didn't see it more than once and left half way through and didn't buy the DVD. The average person just wants to see some good ol fashioned building destroying, rockets flying carnage.
3 - Rage of Godzilla
Forget all you guys Godzilla was freaking awesome and there's other people that like it to and beside all the other Godzilla's suck this Godzilla or should I say his name Zilla was freaking awesome and
his death was also sad but the ending was also awesome cause when that one egg survived and came out Zilla Jr they just ended that was the most bad-ass scene