GODZILLA (1999-2004)

GODZILLA 2000: MILLENNIUM (1999) featured a new, more reptilian-style Godzilla with huge, jagged dorsal fins and a dark green body. The six films from GODZILLA 2000 to GODZILLA: FINAL WARS (2004) are referred to as the Millennium Godzilla series. These films are notable for their variety of approaches to both plot and Godzilla lookings. For example, in the series’ third film, GODZILLA, MOTHRA, KING GHIDORAH LARGE MONSTERS TOTAL ATTACK (2001), Godzilla is larger and more frightening, with a black-toned body, a bigger head and the soulless white eyes of a demon. Only a year later, it is back to a slimmer, lighter design with smaller dorsal fins in GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA (2002). By the end of the Millennium series the star of GODZILLA: FINAL WARS has another new design, this one a slimmed down, more muscular looking monster.