Who was bigger, Son of Kong (1933) or the original Mighty Joe Young (1949)?
Son of Kong
Mighty Joe Young
The perspective is not very good, but I am guessing Son of Kong was a bit larger.
My monkey ain’t got a chance.
I going with Joe. He looks more adult.
I loved Mighty Joe Young when I was a kid. I bet I watched that movie 4 or 5 times. I wonder if it holds up for an adult.
Anyway, I vote Joe.
Maintaining proportions wasn’t a refined art back then. Mighty Joe Young’s size varies greatly, Son of Kong also. My recollection is Joe in his largest depiction was much larger than Kong Jr… Watching Mighty Joe Young used to be my Thanksgiving tradition but haven’t seen it for a while.
Are they really Great Apes? Or merely pretty-good-but-damn-big Apes?
They ok. I guess
But if one gets out, you’ll have a Great Ape Escape.
As noted above, they weren’t careful to keep things consistent in height in Willis O’Brien’s Giant Ape movies. King Kong changed size throughout the film. But Wikipedia articles say that both Son of Kong and the 1q949 Mighty Joe Young were about 12 feet high. This appears consistent with a lot of the images.
Just to be difficult, Mighty Joe Young in the 1998 Disney remake was supposed to be 15 feet high.
As long as we’re mentioning Hanna-Barbera, I’m curious about the intro to The New Scooby-Doo Movies, which included a clip of the Mystery Mobile being chased by a giant ape (https://youtu.be/FeRm2esVSdY?t=39), which afaik didn’t actually reference any Scooby-Doo episode. It wasn’t the Grape Ape either.
Hey, Scary Movie 4 had a giant ape on its poster, and there was no ape in the movie. It’s just that Jackson’s King Kong came out the previous year, and they wanted people to think they were parodying that film, too.
They weren’t
Urgh! Mystery Machine (smack).