It is
an American kaiju film that fully respects its roots, and what the expectations of such a film are.
Not exact matches
Basically, he's made a modern
American version of classic Seventies and Eighties
Kaiju (in knowing nods, megacroc Lizzie even has definite hints of Godzilla's fellow beasts Anguirus and Biollante in the design).
«Godzilla: King of Monsters,» the sequel to the 2014
American version of Toho's famous
kaiju franchise, will be part of a monster movie cinematic universe that also includes the upcoming film «Kong: Skull Island,» which Warner Bros. will release this March.
But 14 years after Roland Emmerich's forgettable «Godzilla» remake, Del Toro's «Pacific Rim» constitutes a large - scale attempt to bring Japan's beloved
Kaiju movies — their monster films, of which Ishiro Honda's 1954 «Godzilla» is the most famous — to
American shores.