Any Godzilla film that gets rid of his son, Monster Island, the cute and cuddly earth-saving Godzilla and too-many-monsters is (and was) quite OK with me!

I very much like GODZILLA 1985 for all those reasons, in addition to some very good special effects that retained the guy-in-a-Godzilla-suit but added, for then, state of the art special effects. The miniature Tokyo is like an anime version of a real city and though the anti-Godzilla battle cruiser slows things down, it recalls some of Toho's coolest anti-Mysterian weapons of the past.

Better acting, better production values and Raymond Burr, too! (Although the never-found-a-body bit was an eye-roller for sure).