I haven't seen this since it first came out. I was very excited about it at the time, but felt let down by it. It was a bit too close to the "King Kong" remake a few years earlier, for me. A lot of hype about the state of the art SFX, and I don't think they were used (or lighted) effectively. I also thought the story was pretty thin.

Raymond Burr was only in the American version, and again, it was to get the "free publicity" out of places like TV guide and such, that actually helped this movie make a profit.

It's one of the Godzilla movies that I keep putting off getting in its original Japanese incarnation. I'd like to see it that way. It has to be better. But, how much better?

This begins the period in Godzilla's film career that I enjoyed the least. The SFX tend to be very impressive (One shot that particularly stands out is in "G vs Space Godzilla" which shows Godzilla in long shot striding towards the beach of the island the scientists are on. It is an amazing blending of the suit with a background plate and really gives a good depiction of his size) but the movies themselves are boring. The monsters mostly stand around discharging beams at each other while the uninteresting human characters watch them on big screen tvs.