If you haven’t seen the three “monsterverse” films preceding Godzilla vs. Kong leads a group of human scientists to uncover a power source in the Earth's core. But it is also the kind of cinematic assault that delivers just the right jolt to the most base sensibilities hiding within our lizard brains.
Kong is a ridiculous movie made even more ridiculous by a distinct lack of care in its conception and execution. Kong looking for some refined, purposeful artistic experience, you are just as foolish as anyone who decides to own oceanfront property in a world where a giant radioactive lizard is swimming around the Pacific, footloose and Ghidorah-free. Who wins each one of those melees? Eh, who cares. While the giant lizard thingy and the giant ape thingy do indeed get down and dirty with each other – on land, at sea and briefly in the anti-gravity airspace of the Earth’s hollow core – there are several other, more pressing head-to-head battles being waged in Adam Wingard’s monster mash.
Kong is not strictly a one-on-one affair. Starring Godzilla, King Kong, and a bunch of humans who don’t matterĭon’t let its title fool you: Godzilla vs.
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