Godzilla (1954 - 2004): Millenium Series

In 1999, Toho released another remake to the original film entitled Godzilla 2000. This movie involves the appearance of a strange rock that is dated to around 60 million years ago which turns out to be a UFO. The UFO then organically uses Godzilla's regenerative cells known in the movie as Organizer G1 (in U.S. release as Regenerator G1) to create an alien monsters made of Godzilla cells dubbed as Orga. The character of Orga only appears in the climax of the movie and has a short lived battle sequence but amazed the audience when it tried to swallow Godzilla whole. By the time half of Godzilla's body is in Orga's throat, Godzilla takes a last act and shoots a heat ray inside Orga's body blowing it to chucks of fiery pieces of meat. Godzilla is once again victorious. Then strangely enough, in 2000, Toho made another Godzilla movie which, once again, ignored all the previous films and was a remake of the 1954 film. The movie was called Godzilla X Megaguirus: The G Extermination Strategy which tells the story about Godzilla once again rising from the depths of the ocean to fight against a mutated prehistoric dragonfly which becomes its adult stage known as Megaguirus which then fights Godzilla in the final showdown. In 2001, Godzilla once again was reborn from the 1954 film but in a different form. In the movie Godzilla Mothra Kingghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack, Godzilla is the physical shape of the spirits of the Japanese people who have died in the atomic bombs explosion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Godzilla is much larger than in the previous films and has no pupil in his eyes giving him a more menacing look. 3 monsters appeared in this movie as the Guardian monsters of Earth: Baragon, Mothra, and Kingghidorah. Baragon is quickly defeated by Godzilla as Godzilla then takes on Mothra and Kingghidorah for the epic finale. For once, Kingghidorah is actually a "good guy" rather than the outer space monsters plotting to destroy the world which gave it a nice twist in plot. In 2002, Mechagodzilla was once again reintroduced as Kiryu ("Mechanical Dragon" in Japanese) to fight against Godzilla in Godzilla X Mechagodzilla (in U.S. Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla), which one again ignored all previous Godzilla films and was a direct sequel to the original. Then a sequel to the previous film was later made in 2003's Godzilla Mothra Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (in U.S. Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.) which involved a final battle between Godzilla, Mothra, and Mechagodzilla. Strangely enough, the Toho Monsters fans would notice that a monster from a Toho movie Gezora Ganime Kamoebas: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas (in U.S. Space Amoeba or Yog: Monster from Space) named Kamoeba makes a cameo appearance as a washed up carcass which was presumably killed by Godzilla. The movie did fairly well both critically and commercially before the Big G reemerges from the depths for his last picture.