“Godzilla vs. Kong” Review | One Helluva Chest-Beating Slobber-Knocker
Spoilers beware.
If you ask me, Godzilla vs. Kong is the movie that proved the movie-going experience was not dead, despite this fourth Monsterverse entry being released at a time when the world was only just beginning to re-cooperate from the pandemic. Spider-Man: No Way Home may have been the first $1 billion+ movie to come out during the 2020s, but the long-awaited battle between a giant ape and a giant monkey was the one that initiated the widespread return to theaters. As for Adam Wingard’s film itself…it’s another banger. With Monarch: Legacy of Monsters coming after the release of this movie, the Monsterverse is, to me, 5 for 5 and not showing any signs of slowing down.
It’s been five years since Ghidorah’s defeat at the hands of the king of the monsters, Godzilla, and Apex Cybernetics is working on something to offer humanity a chance at protecting themselves from any future Titan threat. In order to achieve their grand ambition, Apex brings on Hollow Earth theorist Nathan Lind to convince Dr. Ilene Andrews — the world’s leading expert on Kong and surrogate mother to deaf Iwi girl Jia — to bring Kong to Antarctica so that he can lead them into the Hollow Earth, home to the energy needed to power Apex’s new weapon. This, coupled with Skull Island becoming increasingly unfit for Kong to live…
