
Shanghai Noon, Godzilla 2000, MVP: Most Valuable Primate, Butterfly.



by
George Shaw
Shanghai Noon
The Wild West meets the Far East in a battle for honor, royalty and a trunk full of gold when acrobatic Imperial Guard Chong Wang comes to America to rescue a beautiful kidnapped Chinese princess. With the help of a partner he doesn't trust, a wife he doesn't want, a horse he cannot ride and martial arts moves that no one can believe, Chan finds himself facing the meanest gunslingers in the West.
Starring Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Owen Wilson, Curtis Armstrong, Roger Yuan . Directed Tom Dey.
Godzilla 2000
"Godzilla 2000" pits a 180 foot-high Godzilla against an alien life form aroused from its 6,000 year sleep in the depths of the Japan trench. Two hundred meters wide and shaped like a rock, the alien flies over the Japanese archipelago and attacks Godzilla, who has just crushed the entire city of Nemuro, Japan. Can Godzilla's furious heat beam destroy the gigantic UFO? Is this alien life form an enemy? Is there a future for the humans? The stage is set for an unprecedented battle between Godzilla, the UFO, and the Japanese citizens of Shinjuku.
Starring Takehiro Murata, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Shiro Sano, Mayu Suzuki. Directed Takao Okawara.
MVP: Most Valuable Primate
The story of Jack, a fun-loving, scene-stealing primate with a penchant for ice hockey. The friendships this charming chimp forms, the predicaments he finds himself in and the precocious antics he regularly delivers are all a part of the adventures of this rookie player who skates fast, shoots hard and drives everyone bananas.
Starring Jamie Renee Smith, Kevin Zegers, Rick Duccommun, Oliver Muirhead, Kevin Morrow . Directed Robert Vince.
Butterfly
It's the Spring of 1936 and 8-year-old Moncho is going to school for the first time to learn reading, poetry and arithmetic -- until the Spanish Civil War breaks out and teaches him harsh lessons about the violence and inhumanity of war.
Starring Fernando Fernan Gomez, Gonzalo Martin Uriarte, Manuel Lozano, Alexis de Los Santos, Uxia Blanco. Directed Jose Luis Cuerda.