Definetely a cool movie. As people have already mentioned, its so different from any other kaiju movie, it was like "Well lets do another giant monster movie but lets do it a defferent way this time", and they ended up with a classic. With all the vivid colors it has a bit of a storybook feel, and the simple but good story with the clear cut greedy bad guys getting their just desserts at the end made it like a modern day fairy tale.
The funny thing was me and my little sister were watching this a couple of months ago and I looked behind me to see my Mom smiling. I asked her what she was doing, and she said "I remember watching this with my family when I was little"
*and now for the awww factor*
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW...
Isn't that sweet.
PS-Wha?!? The old emoticons are back?!