“Now he is back. And he’s more magnificent, more glamorous, more devastating than ever. Prepare yourself. The greatest star of all has returned,” proclaimed the television promo for Godzilla 1985. The last time movie audiences had seen the giant lizard in action was in Terror of Mechagodzilla . In the original movie, Godzilla was a metaphor for the atomic bomb, but by the time Terror of Mechagodzilla has rolled around, he had become a defender of the Earth. His adventures became increasingly sillier throughout the decades. Return of Godzilla was Toho’s attempt to bring the monster backs to his roots; as a result, the movie is a direct sequel to the original movie and ignores that more kid friendly movies of the 60s and 70s. New World Pictures acquired the rights and distributed it in the states as Godzilla 1985. In order to “Americanize” the movie, over twenty minutes of footage was cut, and new scenes with Raymond Burr (reprising his role as reporter Steve Martin from G
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