History YMMV / GodzillaFinalWars

** The fact that we didn't get more world cities in the final film, such as Los Angeles [[note]]which is the second most populated city in the US next to New York City[[/note]], San Francisco [[note]]originally planned to be in the script for ''Destroy All Monsters'' where it would have been attacked by Variant[[/note]], Phoenix, Las Vegas [[note]]the later two were heavily implied to have been the initial targets for Kumonga but due to the cities' close proximity to each other the Xillians just dumped the poor spider in the Monument Valley desert in Arizona[[/note]], Washington DC [[note]]which are just begging to get smashed up by Godzilla Kaiju[[/note]], Moscow, Beijing, London [[note]]seeing as all 3 were in ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters'' which would have made up for it's mention by actually showing the latter two cities on-screen, though Shanghai's appearance makes up for the Beijing mention[[/note]], Berlin, Seoul [[note]]which has been only smashed up once by a forgotten Kaiju named [[Film/{{Yonggary}} Yonggary]] and is South Korea's answer to Tokyo[[/note]], Bangkok, Cairo, Bueno Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

** Of course, we can't forget Godzilla either, perhaps the most dominant incarnation of the character to date.

** The CGI in the film also suffers from being dated and obvious. While the terrible CGI Zilla and Manda are especially notable as entirely CGI characters, there are scenes featuring Rodan, Kamacuras and Kaiser Ghidorah that also stand out as sub-par.

** The fact that we didn't get more world cities in the final film, such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas (the later two were heavily implied to have been the initial targets for Kumonga but due to the cities' close proximity the Xillians just dumped the poor spider in the Monument Valley desert in Arizona), Washington DC (which are just begging to get smashed up by Godzilla Kaiju), Moscow, Beijing, London (seeing as all 3 were in ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters'' which would have made up for it's mention by actually showing the latter two cities on-screen, though Shanghai's appearance makes up for the Beijing mention), Berlin, Seoul (which has been only smashed up once by a forgotten Kaiju named Yonggary), Bangkok, Cairo, Bueno Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

** Ozaki brutally beating the ever living shit out of X is an immense feeling of satisfaction after seeing how much of a real [[AliensAreBastards bastard]] X is and all the actions he did against Earth in the name of his sick conquest.

** Considered the best by some for its cast of kaiju and nonstop action. Considered the worst by some for its focus on the humans instead of the kaiju and the action instead of the story. It doesn't help that many of the scenes with the human characters are taken wholecloth from other famous films such ''Film/TheMatrix'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/IndependenceDay'' and ''Film/XMen1'', sometimes frame by frame. One notable example is the character of Shinichi Ozaki who strongly resembles actor Creator/KeanuReeves and at one point in the film stops laser blasts in mid-air in a manner very similar to Neo's most famous scene in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''.

* CommonKnowledge: While it's widely believed that the CurbStompBattle between Godzilla and Zilla is an intentional TakeThatScrappy response to the unpopular American version (just look at this page), [[WordOfGod the director has explained in interviews]] that the original intent was to have a proper East-versus-West faceoff between the two that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen had to be truncated for time]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230407232423/https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2019/01/02/godzillas-final-cut-director-ryuhei-kitamura-on-crafting-godzillas-50th-anniversary-film-godzilla-final-wars/]]. Accordingly, since they could only spare a small time for the fight, they instead played it for comedy. Similarly, the dated CG wasn't intentionally low-quality compared to the Kaiju suits of the other monsters - the other uses of CG in the Millenium films are of comparable quality, and it was obviously not worth the cost of commissioning an all-new Kaiju suit for the All-CG character for what amounted to a [[TheCameo cameo]].

** The CGI in the film also suffers from being dated and obvious. While the terrible CGI Zilla was especially notable as an entirely CGI character, there are scenes featuring Manda, Rodan and Kaiser Ghidorah that also stand out as sub-par.

* TakeThatScrappy: There's a reason that Zilla is the first kaiju to get a complete smackdown, and it's to establish that the character doesn't hold a candle to the "real" Godzilla.

* CommonKnowledge: While it's widely believed that the CurbStompBattle between Godzilla and Zilla is an intentional TakeThatScrappy response to the unpopular American version (just look at this page), [[WordOfGod the director has explained in interviews]] that the original intent was to have a proper East-versus-West faceoff between the two that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen had to be truncated for time]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20230407232423/https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2019/01/02/godzillas-final-cut-director-ryuhei-kitamura-on-crafting-godzillas-50th-anniversary-film-godzilla-final-wars/]]. Accordingly, since they could only spare a small time for the fight, they instead played it for comedy. Similarly, the dated CG wasn't intentionally low-quality compared to the Kaiju suits of the other monsters - the other uses of CG in the Millenium films are of comparable quality, and it was obviously not worth the cost of commissioning an all-new Kaiju suit for what amounted to a [[TheCameo cameo]].