Ah, spring is in the air, so let’s jump ahead about a decade from our last riveting issue of “Godzilla Movie Poster” and visit Son of Godzilla.  This is the heart-wrenching 1967 coming-of-age tale about an illegitimate child trying to build a relationship with his giant, radioactive father.  Minilla will do anything to win his daddy’s approval, but will Godzilla even acknowledge his abandoned love-child?

Who cares!  This movie blows chunks.  Actually, I’ve never seen it, but really, who wants to see a family drama when you could be watching Ninja Terminators?  And besides, we both know that you’re only here to see the art of Son of Godzilla anyway.  Well, it’s after the jump, ese.

The Japanese release for this movie went with a nice blue scheme.  Apparently, there are also giant praying mantises in this movie.  I’m down with that.

Godzilla seems to be pretty half-heartedly breathing radiation while Minilla opted with barfing a line of Spaghetti-Os instead.

So, this movie never got a theatrical release here in the US, but it was shown on late-night cable and eventually released on video.  And, as a result, we do get this nice little piece of “art” to promote the film.

I’m thinking they didn’t even try with this one.  Word captions?  Roar?  Eek?  What kind of lame-o monsters are these?  And how about that tag line?  I can only assume that they inserted a laugh track into this as well…ugh

Now, Poland really hit this one out of the park.  Of course, it doesn’t look like they bothered watching the movie before commissioning this piece.  It’s kind of a Tyranosaurus/Count Dracula fusion…and that’s not a complaint.  I would pay big bucks to see that movie!

Or maybe the Polish version was more concerned with the side story about Minilla getting drunk and turning into a zombie; I think that scene was cut in the US version, though.

Winner of Round 2: Poland