Gojira wrote:
Universal did keep the humour of the Japanese version - plus some of their own. It's just those bloody UN scenes!
Well, sorta. The dubbed scenes in the American version are comedic, but it's all clownish buffoonery to be laughed AT rather than zany satire to be laughed WITH as in the Japanese version- it's liked editing down BLAZING SADDLES to just the slapstick and goofy reaction shots. I have a lot of nostalgia for the American version of KKvG, but it's obvious the producers didn't "get" Honda's film at all and the ongoing non-availability of the Japanese version in the West is some kind of tragedy.

And I like the Kong suit! Doesn't look anything like an actual animal, but as a goofy berry juice wino monster ape-god, it works. And he's got that great roar.