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The New World version of the film was almost universally criticized by North American critics.

Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.

So they have deliberately gone after the same inept feeling in Godzilla 1985.

Examples: Dialogue: Is so consistently bad that the entire screenplay could be submitted as an example.

My favorite moment occurs when the hero and heroine are clutching each other on a top floor of a skyscraper being torn apart by Godzilla and the professor leaps into the shot, says " What has happened here?

" and leaps out again without waiting for an answer.

Lip-synching: Especially in the opening shots, there seems to be a subtle effort to exaggerate the bad coordination between what we see and what we hear.

All lip-synch is a little off, of course, but this movie seems to be going for condescending laughs from knowledgable filmgoers.

Special effects: When Godzilla marches on Tokyo, the buildings are the usual fake miniature models, made out of paint and cardboard.

The tipoff is when he rips a wall off a high-rise, and nothing falls out.

That's because there is nothing inside.