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Fifth Avenue gets trashed. The Chrysler building destroyed. The Brooklyn Bridge mangled. Yes, it’s Manhattan we’re talking about and it’s that monster Godzilla who’s causing all the trouble.
The movie stars Matthew Broderick, when he still had his looks and Maria Pitillo, who’s wilder than a cat on a hot tin roof. He plays the role of a nerdish but sexy scientist called Dr Niko Tatopoulos and she plays the role of his ex-girlfriend, Audrey Timmonds, a CNN wannabe anchorwoman.
It seems that Godzilla, a psychotic monster stomping wildly and ripping its way through the streets and subway tunnels of New York City, was the product of a nuclear test gone wrong. Horribly wrong.
The movie has a visceral thrill and a zest that rises to the occasion. It’s fun (in a camp sort of way), hallucinatory (without the acid) and full of brooding, underlying dread. Incidentally, the movie was chosen to close the 51st Cannes Film Festival, where it scared the daylights out of jaded film cognoscenti. Have fun. Free on e.