Shusuke Kaneko, director of the Heisei Gamera trilogy was finally given the chance to helm a Godzilla movie, and what we got in return was the height of the millennium era. Had Toho not skimped on the budget, or interfered with the man's original vision for the film, we could have had movie that blew everything that came before and after out of the water, but alas it just wasn't meant to be.
Originally, King Ghidorah nor Mothra weren't in the film. Instead, Baragon was set to tag along with Anguirus and Varan of all monsters. Just imagining the kind of world we could be living in right now had Toho not had them replace them with audience-friendly faces instead, why, covid probably never would have happened in that timeline, nor would Trump have been made president.
The Godzilla we got was a beast; imbued by the vengeful spirits of those that died during the war. He quite literally goes out of his way kill people, from smashing in a hospital building with the tip of his tail to blasting a crowd of fleeing people with his breath.
The other star of the film is Baragon! While he's first to get bodied by Godzilla, he puts up a great fight that's entirely tooth and claw. This fight marked the first and only time Godzilla has fought against Baragon, and hopefully not the last.
Mothra is Mothra.
Ghidorah is a quite different here. For starters, he's on the good side. He's considerably shorter than normal and doesn't immediately start out with the ability to fly.
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