King Kong vs Godzilla
Which is better? Godzilla or King Kong? The notorious Japanese low-budget originals or their hyped Hollywood counterparts?Now is your chance to decide once and for all as the two monster heavyweights fight it out for ultimate abhomination domination!
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King Kong Escapes
Godzilla (1998)
King Kong (2005)
King Kong Vs. Godzilla
Our Creature Features Week just wouldn't be complete without the inclusion of Japanese actors wrestling each other whilst adorned in rubber suits.
Adapted from the 1966 cartoon series, this sees King Kong face his robotic counterpart, Mechani-Kong, who was invented by evil genius Dr. Who (no relation to the Timelord) to dig for a radioactive element called "Element X".
After Mechani-Kong fails this task, Dr. Who kidnaps the real Kong and hypnotises him to dig for Element X. Kong eventually snaps out of it and swims to Tokyo to deal with his mechanical enemy.
"How could a car drive out of Godzilla's jaws?" you may ponder. "How could a lizard the size of Godzilla get down to the subway to lay eggs, and why doesn't it choose somewhere safer, like the bottom of the ocean?" we hear you ask...
Though the film drips with illogicalities, it's also packed with excitement and nail-biting chases, plus a traditional climax in which Godzilla pays homage to King Kong by flailing at one of the aircraft attacking it on Brooklyn Bridge.
Most nine-year-olds know what they want to do when they grow up. Fly a plane, be a train driver or - at a push - join the police.
Peter Jackson wanted to remake King Kong.
Now the Lord of the Rings director has had his chance...and he's grabbed it with both hands, twirled it around his head and delivered the most adrenalin-fuelled escapist fantasy you're ever likely to see.
Of all the monsters portrayed in Japanese cinema, Kong is suggested to be among the most powerful in terms of raw physical force, possessing strength and durability to rival Godzilla himself.
To make Kong more of a match for his Japanese debut in King Kong Vs. Godzilla, he was made considerably larger than the original version and was granted the ability to draw power from electric energy.
When fully charged, Kong could even direct this power against his opponents by means of an electric touch attack.
Not all sentimentality for Kong's classic origins were lost, however. During the final fight, Kong tries to shove a tree down Godzilla's throat in a tribute to the fight with the T-Rex in the original King Kong.
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