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1985 | Fantasy
87 mins Japan United States
Re-cut Americanised version of the Japanese movie 'The Return of Godzilla' from 1984. In addition to re-ordering some scenes, the film is edited to make the USA appear more heroic and the Russians more explicitly bad guys. Raymond Burr reprises his role as Steve Martin from 1956's Godzilla, King of the Monsters (the Americanised version of the first Godzilla movie), in scenes mostly funded by the Dr Pepper company, judging from the product placement involved.
Godzilla (1998) 
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) | Produced by | Toho (in association with New World Pictures) |
| Director | Koji Hashimoto and RJ Kizer |
| Writer | Shuichi Nagahara, Lisa Tomei, Tony Randel and Straw Weisman |
| Cast | Raymond Burr, Ken Tanaka, Yasuko Sawaguchi and Keiju Kobayashi |
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The original movie was a laudable attempt to take Godzilla back to basics, let down by a sluggish plot, weak climax, and underwhelming monster (Godzilla appears to have had one martini too many and seems a bit unsteady on his feet). This one has all those problems too, which are only compounded by the way that all the film's interesting ideas kind of get lost in the re-edit. There are still a few decent sequences of Godzilla fighting the JSDF, including a sci-fi flying tank, but this is hard going for the most part.