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Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters is the first film in the anime trilogy. [15] The second film in the trilogy, titled Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle was released on May 18, 2018. [38] [39] The third and final film in the trilogy, titled Godzilla: The Planet Eater, was released on November 9, 2018. [40]
In August 2016, Toho announced plans for a trilogy of anime Godzilla films with Polygon Pictures animating the films and Netflix distributing the trilogy worldwide, except in Japan where each film will be given a theatrical release by Toho. [52] [53] The first film, titled Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, was released on November 17, 2017. [54]
AKA Gojira no gyakushu (Godzilla's Counterattack); [3] shot in black and white/full screen; the first appearance of the monster Anguirus; a rushed sequel to the previous film, Godzilla; released in the U.S. as Gigantis the Fire Monster; [4] the series was put on hiatus after this film for seven years until 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters [d] is a 2019 American [b] monster film directed and co-written by Michael Dougherty.Produced by Legendary Pictures [a] and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Godzilla (2014) and the third film in the Monsterverse.
Writer Max Borenstein stated that the Monsterverse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.Borenstein credits Legendary Entertainment's founder and then CEO Thomas Tull as the one responsible for the Monsterverse, having acquired the rights to Godzilla and negotiated the complicated rights to King Kong.
[16] Richard Eisenbeis from Anime News Network awarded the film an overall B-rating, praising the anime's version of Ghidorah is "an incredible take on an iconic character" but criticized the battle between Godzilla and Ghidorah, calling it "the most boring part of the film". He also praised the film's themes of nihilism, hope, and harmony with ...
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Its critical consensus states, "Without compelling characters or heart, Godzilla stomps on everything that made the original (or any monster movie worth its salt) a classic." [ 73 ] Metacritic (which uses a weighted average) assigned Godzilla a score of 32 out of 100 based on 23 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [ 74 ]