It was not bad. The polar opposite in tone from Godzilla Minus One (which is fine) and it reminded me of when I watched Godzilla movies as a kid in that the People stuff was dumb and boring and you just kept waiting for the Monster action.
I will say I think they made Kong too smart for lack of a better word. I get that he always was more than a mindless monster but I think they go a little far here and he is basically a human without the speech.
I never saw the Apple TV show set in this world. Did it connect to the movie in anyway?
I thought it was awful. And I say that as a huge fan of the 2014 Godzilla. I had high hopes for the MonsterVerse but each film has gotten goofier and more cartoony.
Usually movies with multiple giant monsters have them fighting each other, but the posters for this one make it look a lot more like they’re teaming up. Which is it? And if teaming up, against whom or what?
I was willing to go along with the sign language in the previous flick. I thought it was clever!
But they might as well just have had Kong and Godzilla speaking to each other in this latest movie. It would only have made a terrible movie just a little bit worse.
He’s a Primate and they have basic intelligence and that’s fine but here he was basically a person along with the entire Kong tribe. It was more Planet of the Giant Apes in those scenes and that was a little off for me.
I also didn’t quite understand the Portals. Hollow Earth was supposed to be inside our planet but the Portals looked and seemed more like Wormholes to Somewhere Else.
Possibly influenced by Dwayne Johnson’s Rampage. Which was a movie that knew just how campy it was, and therefore managed to be So Bad It’s Good. There, the giant monsters started off as normal animals before being exposed to technobabble gene-tech stuff, and the Rock’s character was the chief primatologist at the zoo that George (the giant ape) came from, and had already taught him sign language.
Saw it over the weekend. The plot was dumb and made zero sense - there’s a Subterranean Realm inside Hollow Earth? Is it just more levels down to the core? The visuals and monster fights were pretty good, but honestly if it comes on TV I’ll sit and watch those and skip the rest. The high point honestly was realizing Matthew from Downton Abbey was playing the Ace Ventura wannabe titan veterinarian.
I describe it as a “hoot.”
Pure dumb fun–straight faced so not coming off as insulting. “Kong needs a bionic arm…oh we have one back at the listening station!” Sure, why not!
Scaling seemed strange though. Like Godzilla got shrunk down? Using the Collosseum as a dog bed was cute but shouldn’t he be way too big.
Also Kong being “human-y” intelligent but Godzilla just being a “clever girl” works so well. The pyramid fight is hilarious because Kong is trying to communicate to Godzilla who does not get it.
Big dumb fun… I’m assuming if we get ANOTHER we’ll finally get aliens and maybe modern versions of Gigan and Megalon.