'Godzilla vs. Kong' Is Colossal Fun

Godzilla vs. Kong is the main event that the MonsterVerse franchise has been leading toward to.   A sequel to Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island, the film depicts the long-anticipated showdown between the two iconic cinematic titans (for the record, this isn’t actually the first time this happened.  There was a King Kong vs. Godzilla Japanese film released back in 1962).

'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' Offers Very Little Beyond Soulless Spectacles

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the sequel to 2014’s Godzilla, and the third entry in Legendary’s MonsterVerse shared universe franchise.  Set five years after the colossal battle between Godzilla and MUTO revealed to the world the existence of “Titans” (see Godzilla), the plot pits Monarch – the organization that has been studying these massive creatures for many years (as revealed in Kong: Skull Island) – against an eco-terrorist group who wishes to unleash the slumbering Titans into the world, so that it may be purged of humans and jumpstart the recovery of the environment.  As the Titans begin waking up and causing tremendous destruction all over the globe, Godzilla and Ghidorah engage in a battle of supremacy. 

'Kong: Skull Island' Is No Epic, but Still a Decent Monster Romp

Kong: Skull Island is the latest reboot of the King Kong franchise and the second installment in Legendary’s “MonsterVerse” shared cinematic universe (the first of which was 2014’s Godzilla reboot).  The movie follows an expedition – composed of tracker/adventurer ex-British SAS Captain James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), U.S government agent Bill Randa (John Goodman), photojournalist Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), U.S. Army helicopter squadron leader Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), and other scientists and soldiers – into an unexplored, fabled island in the Pacific called “Skull Island”, which they soon discover is the dominion of a gargantuan ape named “Kong” (probably the largest incarnation of the iconic film monster yet.  The same thing was done with Godzilla in Godzilla Resurgence.  I guess the trend is “bigger is better”).  As their undertaking unceremoniously becomes a struggle for survival, they meet World War II pilot Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly), who has been stranded in the island for nearly three decades, and encounter various strange, deadly creatures never before seen by men – chief of which are Kong’s mortal foes, the reptilian subterranean monsters called “Skullcrawlers.”