Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

The script, there is a plot but it's preposterous tosh and it makes no sense, and it doesn't even try to make sense... Stuff. Stuff. Stuff. ROAR.

While Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire did on occasion test my patience, the overall ride does remain a fun one, and because of that, I’m still willing to remain seated on the Monsterverse’s bandwagon — for now.

This is great fun. A big, dumb movie that tries to explain with scientific language how we get to a place called "Hollow Earth."

Godzilla and King Kong use to have a beef. Now that they’ve kissed and made up, there’s no real meat in this generic big creature smackdown.

These films may be empty, but they can be strangely stimulating. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, however, is the MonsterVerse at its weakest: Its spectacle is even duller than its story, which is already nonsensical.

If you want to see massive creatures leveling cities, that’s exactly what you’ll get. If you’re looking for anything more than that, well, you should know by now that you’re in the wrong place.

...I’m [...] very aware that there is a lot of chatter online about The New Empire and how it’s just a WWE smackdown but with monsters and I’m like…so? I know what I came here for.

The two most famous kaijus in history are forced to join forces against a common enemy in what is one of the most fun film of the year so far

Vast parts of the film flash by without anything but guttural noises and explosions in the soundscape. It’s like listening to a metal garbage can filled with farm animals topple down the stairs.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is one big, bright, dumb, expensive Saturday morning cartoon, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.