Americans Hate Tingle: Yongary, for the rest of the world, is just "another kaiju movie of the past". In its native Korea, it's popular enough to be a mascot for Korean food company Harim with their "Yongary chicken tenders", complete with chibi-Yongary and his pals Yongyongi and Yongnali as their spokesperson!
Yongary starts dancing after Icho wakes him up with the "Itch-Ray", apropos of absolutely nothing. As such, it makes his subsequent bloody death even more jarring.
The brief scene of civilians who decide to party it up, rather than flee is already a bit strange. But the weirdest part is a shot of a man praying in front of a cross—while the guy behind pours beer over his head.
Cliché Storm: Checks off every box in the Kaiju playbook in a downright slavish fashion.
Ending Fatigue: Happens in two ways; firstly, Yongary's death is dragged out for much longer than it needs to be, and secondly, the ending keeps hammering in the Humans Are the Real Monsters message to the point where it becomes extremely repetitive.
Awesome Music: Surprisingly, yes. The film has an official piece of music named "Tokusatsu" that goes hard.Take a listen.
Broken Base: Fans are rather split about the change in Yonggary’s appearance; some prefer the old design and feel the change was unnecessary, but others like the change and think his original design was too generic.
Fan-Preferred Cut Content: The monsters were originally depicted using suitmation, only for the practical effects to be largely replaced with CGI in post. Fans generally consider the behind the scenes pictures of the suits and practical effects footage that made it into the film looks better than the CGI models.
Hilarious in Hindsight: The Galaxions teleporting the monsters under their control would predict a similar occurrence in Godzilla: Final Wars where the Xiliens used the same method to recall and unleash their monsters.
Values Resonance: Professor Campbell's threats of having his excavation deported if they don’t knuckle under to the decidedly deadly work conditions can be more pointed in today’s more heated political climate regarding immigration.