What were some of the things that set Godzilla vs Destroyer apart?
• Monsters vs Humans. One of the few kaiju movies to provide direct human interaction with monsters at the same scale. In this case, it was the police fighting the human-sized Destroyers, which later attacked Yukari. • More fisticuffs. Other than Godzilla’s fight with Rodan in vs MechaGodzilla, the final fight with Destroyer featured more physical battling: punching, biting, headbutting, and tail-flinging. While still a far cry from King Kong vs Godzilla, I still enjoyed seeing some good ol’ fashioned monster bashing. • Godzilla appeared early in the movie during his Hong Kong attack in the opening credits. I liked this change rather than waiting halfway through the movie to see the title character. In some movies, like Godzilla (1954), waiting built suspense. In others like vs Mothra (1992), it just made me impatient! • It did not follow the typical two-round battle formula: bad monster meets and beats the good monster; good monster returns with help (either a new form, a new weapon,
