Godzilla, Mothra, & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

This movie changes some of the traditional Godzilla legend. Instead of the American atomic bombs empowering Godzilla, this time it's the souls of all who perished at the Japanese war machine's hands. Ghidorah, who is usually a world destroyer, instead plays a Guardian along side of Mothra and Baragon. The unlikely trio's job is to guard the homeland, but not the people.

Once again we have a plucky female heroine, this time the intrepid reporter, Yuri. More often than not she ended up playing the damsel in distress in need of rescuing no matter how brave and spunky the writers intended her to be. Alongside the guardians, the humans led by Yuri's father, have also developed a weapon they hope will put an end to Godzilla's reign of destruction.

Instead of random, almost unseen people getting killed, Godzilla's victims are often shown close up or are characters who have been introduced. There are real stakes with the humans' and guardians' lives. Godzilla has returned to being the terror that he was in 1954. The monster fights are actually quite good and entertaining as each Guardian does their best to take down Godzilla. Once the action starts around thirty minutes into the movie, it never lets up. Overall, this was an entertaining kaiju movie.

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