Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - It Is What It Is

I respect the fact they went 100% goofy with it instead of trying to make it serious/silly. I laughed out loud at Godzilla and Kong fighting at the pyramids

It’s a dumb fun movie. Want something more complex? Minus One. Don’t? This film. Like both? Great to be a Godzilla fan.

Honestly, I can respect when a studio decides to make an over-the-top campy popcorn flick, and just commits to it 100%. It knows what it wants to be. It knows who it's trying to please, and it delivers.

Godzilla is an amazing actor, he did an entire transformation from minus one to this.

Kong acts better than entire 99% actors of Hollywood

The contrast of Minus One and New Empire show how much of a versatile character Godzilla is.

The important thing to remember is that the majority of Godzilla movies are whimsical family films. It's these movies that entertain children when they're 3 or 4 and keep them fans into their 40s, like my brother and me. We learned to appreciate the serious dramas like the original film and Minus One as we matured, but we hold a great love in our hearts for the goofy ones. There wouldn't be a 70 year old enduring franchise if they were all serious dramas.

Finally. A critic who actually likes the movie who just wants to have fun and be wild.

A movie with giant monster battles, that can be enjoyed by adults AND kids, that doesn’t have “check boxes”, “politics” and not “preachy”… I call that a win. 7/10.

"Will Giant Monkey and Giant Lizard be able to put aside their differences?" This question has plagued Earth's greatest philosophers since the days of Socrates.

I respect that they were smart enough to know they were making a dumb movie and went all in on it. When I walked out the theatre, we all laughed about how dumb it was - the good kind of dumb that doesn't think it actually did anything special - then we talked about other things. It made me think of someone giving a guy making a made-for-tv movie for late 90's SciFi Channel a huge budget and access to future effects tech. This is what you'd get, and I like that for what it is. My favorite line was, "The shockwave took out the power, battery thing." I had to think that was a writer winking at us.

The writer and the director of Godzilla Minus One saw Godzilla x Kong and had a blast with it and said it was fun and gorgeous and people should see it on the biggest screen possible. If he can find a place for this film? I think every Monsterverse or Kaiju fan can do the same. There's an equal place for serious dramatic Godzilla films like Minus One and for over the top popcorn Godzilla films like The New Empire. And I love that there is so much variety when it comes to Godzilla movies now.

I took my 5 year old son as he’s obsessed with Godzilla. He didn’t look away from the screen and was reenacting the fights as they happened. Absolutely loved it

Godzilla x kong is classic turn your brain of and have fun at the cinema, its the ideal movie to watch when you just wanna have a good time. Big monke and lizard fight, RRRAAAAHHHHHH

It’s a 60s Godzilla movie brought back to life. I had more fun with it than I expected. No Minus One by any means, but still don’t regret seeing it.

This is what I like to call "the plurality of markets" - two films that play to different audiences and don't question eachother's right to exist. If only everyone could get what they want, rather that people wanting everything to be 'for everyone'

The 25 minute segment of Kong interacting with the other great apes was amazing. There is no dialog or spoken words, yet both Kong and Surprisingly Scar King oozes with personality.

The beauty of Godzilla as a franchise is that you're allowed to have a serious and mature take on the character and a goofy action figure film. Both can and have coexisted within the franchise with neither feeling alien to one another.

All other monsterverse movies: "We want less human drama!" Godzilla and Kong new empire : "We want more human drama!" Honestly it is hard to make everyone happy.

godzilla x king kong movies are the rare class of movies that genuinely deserve the "let people enjoy things" seal of approval