Redfern opened this issue on Apr 08, 2014 · 30 posts
Redfern posted Wed, 23 April 2014 at 5:00 PM
I understand what you mean, but forgive me for being a pedantic schmuck if you will.
Godzooky was the name of the infantile creature with armpit wings from the Hanna-Babera animated series. In the movies, the humonculus looking "thing" was called Minilla (sometimes spelled Minya) in the original Japanese cuts of films like "Son of Godzilla". The character was heavily redesigned for the films of the 80s, finally looking like something reptilian rather than an aborted gorilla fetus.
Strangely enough, the original Minilla deign was brought back for "Final Wars", the last Godzilla film Toho has produced. The scenes appear rather "tagged on", as though it was footage made for another movie and just awkwardly spliced into the larger narrative.
of course, by the time Minilla was introduced, Toho was targeting ever younger audiences, as the "Gamera" films produced by a rival studio were doing.
Thankfully, it looks like the Legendary Pictures film will be trying to recapture the "uncertainty" and "dread" of the original Japanese cut of "Gojira", so I think there is very little chance we'll see a "baby" Godzilla comic relief character.
Sincerely,
Bill
Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!