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Perhaps the role of Raymond Burr, as the only American who survived Godzilla's last whirlwind tour of Tokyo, is meant to show us that Godzilla has entered the modern world. But all Burr does is offer the American military tidbits of information every few minutes, assault us full-force with his huge carcass, and do absolutely nothing in terms of real action. His presence is really nothing but a huge farce to attract crowds...
...ONLY VALID DIFFERENCE between this Godzilla and the past ones is the special effects used to depict the monster itself. We see Godzilla from a multitude of angles and destroying a multitude of objects, and it looks reasonably real--much more real than in the old movies in which an animated Godzilla struck down model airplanes and we knew...
...course, this realism works against this Godzilla-as-a-force-of-nature theme. He looks like a huge monster; he acts like a real monster. What else can we conclude but that he is a real monster? He is not some force that has sprung up to teach mankind a lesson (that man's buildings need more reinforced steel?) and then disappear when the message has been sent...
...Godzilla '85 is really nothing more than a sequel to the old Godzilla movies. And as sequels go, it's not very good. Every director knows that a follow-up movie must be bigger and better than the its predecessors. But Godzilla just isn't any bigger and better. The creature has no new powers. It doesn't destroy anything more than it did in the past (in fact it was pretty lenient on Toyko this time). It doesn't travel in space, threaten the moon, or try to stop the Earth from rotating...
Directors Hashimoto and Kizer tried to created a tragic figure out of Godzilla. He tried to tell us that we shouldn't blame Godzilla for its actions since it was created by nature for a specific purpose. But modern audiences are just too sophisticated to fall for that crap. When a 100-ton monster squashes us out of existence, we just have to blame something more than nature...