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...meter-long body all over Japan in search of some decent breakfast (which in this case is a nuclear power plant). Even after we are told that Godzilla is impervious to any man-made weapon, we get to see the Japanese send their best weapons against the monster, naturally to no avail...
...sounds serious, it's not. Only a fool would believe that Godzilla, as he tackles another 30-floor skyscraper, is anything more than a sexually repressed monster who happens to be stronger than Arnold Schwarzenegger and taller than Manute...
...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 was always one of Dewitt's childhood faves, and this time, one can only hope that the big green monster is tired of fooling around. It all goes to prove that in the battle between human beings and their environment, it's not who wins the most rounds but who lands the final blow...