Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Godzilla would return in this movie again as a force of destruction, but this time to attack Osaka. He isn't alone in this one as he faces a monster known as Anguirus and thus the monster match was born as a new tradition to carry throughout the series. The film was made only a year after the original but the mood and tone of grim despair are already gone. Godzilla and Anguirus beat the living crap out of each other and it gets pretty fast paced. Now, the Godzilla suit was trimmed down because it was so heavy that having to fight another monster would be a suicide mission. The fighting is decent, Godzilla fights like a boxer and Anguirus just gets his butt whipped. He's a worthy foe, but it's the King of the Monsters here.   Another tradition was started in this movie as well, when the pagoda gets destroyed in numerous monster battles in Osaka. The ending is really cool with the army shooting at the ice caps on mountains burying him for the next 7 years in frozen sleep. But he would return yet again in the best monster battle ever. Overall, this movie has some decent monster action, but not without it's flaws. Its an average sequel that doesn't impact the series a very large amount but did establish the importance of the monster battle.