4 1/2 out of 5
I fucking love monsters, especially big monsters. I don’t know why but I always have, ever since I was little. Monsters of one sort or another have existed on the periphery of my consciousness for my whole life. I was just at the coast and while taking in one beautiful rocky vista all I could imagine was a giant crab crawling up from the depths. That’s just who I am.
So I’m the target audience here. I could be critical but I’m an easy lay for this, and unlike the prior two Godzilla films that think we want human characters and human drama (we don’t, by the way) this gives us big monsters doing big monster stuff in places that are silly. It’s the best of these Monsterverse movies second only to Kongs first outing in Skull Island and much better than the prior Godzilla films.
It’s hard to imagine the ground level serious Godzilla of 2014 being connected to all this soft science fiction silliness (hollow earth flying snake monster reverse gravity gobbledygook) but it’s a monumental improvement. If you thought the family drama of King of The Monsters was lame you’ll love the simplistic characters here. Most importantly if you love the monsters you’ll enjoy this.
Godzilla is mostly cast as an antagonist but Kong is expressive and strangely relatable; alternately exhausted and driven. As a father of three I felt every time he flopped down with the look of “do I really have to keep doing this?” on his face. They did a great job giving the monsters personality.
I get why some people will balk at this and if you do then go watch fucking Nomadland and pat yourself on the back. I don’t know why you’d watch this if this is the kind of movie you know you don’t like. I like big monsters. I like this movie.
If you like big monsters you’ll like it too.
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