'He's gone Supersize!' Japanese fans accuse the new 'American' Godzilla of being too fat

The new trailer for impending summer blockbuster Godzilla finally gives fans a glimpse of the monster in all his glory and some fans have been quick to point out that he is looking a little on the hefty side.



The character was originally created for a 1954 Japanese sci-fi movie and it is fans in that country that has been quick to voice that alarm at the bulkier version on display in the latest Hollywood re-imagination.

Fans on internet forum 2ch had comments such as 'Did he get fat?' and 'That's what happens when all you do is eat and lay around.'

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'Pudgy and cute'?: The new Godzilla has been branded 'fat' by viewers in Japan after the release of a new trailer

Others commenting described him as 'out of shape', with either 'no neck' or one 'like an American football athlete's.'



One user said simply: 'He's gone Supersize Me,' while another was more forgiving and described him as 'pudgy and cute'.

Some viewers thought he looked like 'a komodo dragon', as another asked if he was 'Sin from Final Fantasy X', and someone explained that he must have become 'beefed up from the radiation at Fukushima.'

Fuller figure?: Users of a Japanese internet forum described him as having 'no neck' and eating too much and not doing enough exercise Not quite the desired effect: Godzilla's big reveal was supposed to show him as scary rather than chubby Unleashed: The new Godzilla trailer gives a better look at the titular monster and a first look at the Mutos Previous trailers for the new Go dzilla movie took a Jaws-like approach to igniting terror in viewers, showing just quick glimpses of the monster. But now not only has Godzilla been revealed in all his plump glory, but we have been offered a look at the other monsters in the movie. The newly released trailer depicts Mutos, winged creatures wreaking havoc on the city which Godzilla was previously blamed for. Weight gain: The monster looked slimmer in the original 1954 movie of the same name

Prehistoric: The new Godzilla bears a closer resemblance to the original. In the 1998 movie (pictured) he looked a lot like a T-Rex

The latest look at the movie gives us some idea into how Godzilla came to be and will in turn become the hero, as he fights off the real danger that is the Mutos.

The audience learns that the genetically modified Mutos, of which it seems there are several, were the result of Japanese experiments that escaped.

It seems that in fact these creatures came to be amid excess radiation following 1950s atomic bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean, designed to kill Godzilla.

The real danger: We learn in the latest trailer that it is the Mutos that are wreaking havoc, although it was thought Godzilla was responsible

'God help us all': Bryan Cranston provides some terror as he talks about Japanese experiments that escaped



Round one: Godzilla and one of the Muto Kaijus are seen squaring up to fight at the end of the trailer

The trailer, for release in Asia, of course provides audiences with plenty of powerful words from Bryan Cranston, which have dominated previous clips.



'Whatever it is, it's in there. Whatever it is they're guarding so carefully,' he says. 'It's real. God help us all.'

Godzilla is referred to as 'a monster - no, a God,' in the trailer, as we see him preparing to fight the Mutos.

'A monster, no - a God': Ken Watanabe and Aaron Taylor-Johnson's characters get to the bottom of Godzilla's story

In fear: Elizabeth Olsen is seen looking shocked as she lays eyes on Godzilla for the first time

Leading man: Bryan plays Joe Brody, the father of Aaron's character, Lieutenant Ford Brody

There are of course plenty of images of people screaming and running from the devastation and destruction including floods and damage to the Statue of Liberty.

Ken Watanabe says: 'The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in its control, and not the other way around. Let them fight.'

As many will already know, the movie is a reboot of the 1954 Ishiro Honda movie of the same name, which was then reimagined by Roland Emmerich in 1998.

Run for your lives: There are many images of the widespread destruction caused by the Mutos in the trailer

Jaws style: Previous trailers for the new movie only gave quick glimpses of Godzilla to make him seem scarier

Destruction: Las Vegas is destroyed in this scene from the upcoming movie And Welsh director Gareth Edwards, who helms the latest installation, has said he wants to keep elements of the original film. 'There’s definitely a nuclear element to the movie and my Godzilla is definitely a representation of the wrath of nature and its vengeance upon man,' he revealed.

Godzilla hits cinemas in the UK on May 15 and the US on May 16.

In pieces: One spine-tingling shot shows the Statue of Liberty destroyed as helicopters swarm and a fire burns in the distance

A creature of their own making: It seems the Mutos were designed by humans but then escaped confinement