Godzilla geeks up in arms over super-sized Hollywood incarnation
Life in Hollywood has expanded the physique of Japan's favourite monster and he has been accused in his latest movie outing of 'chowing down' and 'lacking exercise' by fans
Japanese film fans are up in arms at the latest Hollywood movie featuring the much-loved Godzilla after promotional shots showed that the lumbering lizard had put on a few kilos.
Avid fans of a creature that has earned icon status in the nation that first felt his full fury way back in 1954 were a little less gentle in their descriptions of the American film industry’s rendering of the King of Monsters.
Posters on online movie sites suggested that Hollywood has “super-sized” Godzilla, while others wondered if he had been chowing down on pizza and marshmallows since his previous appearance in the US in 1998. Another asked where the neck had gone.
Others put it down to “a lack of exercise” or the creature suffering from middle-age spread. Another online poster said it is going to be a lot more difficult for his human adversaries to vanquish this particular beast.
As well as filling out a little, the 2014 version of Godzilla has grown substantially taller. When the character first waded out of the Pacific in his big-screen debut, Godzilla was a mere 50 metres tall. He added a couple of metres in the Toho Millennium Series of films, between 1999 and 2004, and was slightly taller again when Toho made in 2004 – but the creature now towers more than 100 metres high, has massive thighs and a thick tail.
