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0:00 Plot Setup
3:41 Positives
10:52 Negatives
12:17 Light Spoiler Section
15:31 Ending Thoughts
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These films sound like a fever dream
My guess is that the next film will involve Space Godzilla, with a big focus on Godzilla, as this film's focus was on King-Kong…Heck they might even let Godzilla team up with Rodan and Anguirus.
Scar king should either be bigger, of which they could have explained his earlier defeat against Godzilla that he was not fully grown or that they gave Scar king some enchant power that give him some new way to fight.
I don't know if I'll catch this one, I just can't but a big monkey as a threat to Godzilla. Hell it's a lazy enemy for Kong, it's just Kong but bigger and evil.
I really really enojoyed the movie! Just 2 hours of entertainment and giant monsters kicking the sh!t out of each other! Oh and yes, @jaguarformonsterverse
What ever happened to Charles Dance in the monsterverse?
I think scar king needed a “yamcha” to beat and look tough with. Maybe a flashback to when he takes shimo or just a random monster. I mean Godzilla and kong got some yamchas to fodder
Had the fight gone on longer, imagine Godzilla pulls out a Swanton Bomb or Frog Splash from the top ropes of the pyramids
I was really expecting them to just reveal that there was one or a pair of Mothra eggs in the crystal pyramid place and maybe at the end of the film they start to hatch as a hint for the next film. Cus like… I have no clue where they are going after this lol alien stuff I assume/hope?
Hahaha 😂 Steven 😅😋🤤
I've seen it twice now, and I had a lot of fun watching this movie. This was truly a modern day Shõws Era movie. It perfect by any means? No. But I had a great time with it. If we get movies like Minus One and GxK, I'm fine with that. I want more kaiju movies in the future. And yes, put Jet Jaguar in the next Monsterverse movie.
I just hate how godzilla is such a bully and kills whoever he needs to get more powerful….and at the same time i love it haha.
its good to actually see you in person
I found the villains to be underwhelming too. I think the issue is he’s not in it much, and his introduction saw him fighting an already weak Kong. If they showed Kong in his prime early on instead of being chased by monsters and suffering a toothache, it would’ve made Skar King more threatening when Kong was forced to retreat. I also feel Godzilla was made way too powerful. I adore Godzilla so I’m fine with that, but was that “20x” power boost really necessary? I feel Godzilla might’ve been able to take on Skar King and Shimu single-handedly; the second Godzilla destroyed destroyed the whip, it was over for Skar King. Call me a Kong hater, but I feel he was out of his depth, needing two upgrades (the axe and gauntlet) just to stand a chance. I also thought the fight scenes were cool, but short-lived, especially the final fight; it felt like it was over before it had begun.
Scar King turning out to be a jobber… is actually set up in the movie. Even though the characters claim he "almost" killed Godzilla in the distant past, the actual lore and cave art they're going by suggests THE ONLY REASON THAT HAPPENED is because Scar King had an entire army of similarly sized apes at his command at the time, while Godzilla was fighting solo. Scar King not being that big a deal is also established when we see Kong challenge him: Scar King is nowhere as big and bulky as Kong is, and spends most of their battle fighting from a distance while using his superior agility and experience to avoid getting hit. Once Kong actually lands a blow during this battle, though, he quickly takes control of the fight and dominates Scar King until the latter's able to put a gap between them again. Kong had been able to fight against Godzilla in the previous movie – until Godzilla finally lost patience and stopped holding back, and then promptly cubstomped him, so there was really no way Scar King was actually going to stand a chance against Godzilla.
It wasn't just the writers who knew this, though; Scar King seemed to understand this massive power disparity between himself and Godzilla as well, which is why he had Shimo as his secret weapon. They call attention to this, as well: During the final battle, Scar King is cocky until he realizes he has Godzilla's undivided attention, at which point he quickly and visibly panics. Further, Scar King may be faster and more agile, and able to dodge Godzilla's atomic breath, but nothing Scar King does harms Godzilla in any way – and Godzilla even breaks his whip with one bite, after catching it in his mouth. Scar King ends up spending the latter half of the fight trying to get his controller for Shimo back, because he knows he's screwed without it.
Scar King was more of a Kong villain, with Shimo being there to slightly even the odds. I actually greatly respect that they kept his power level low, rather than try to outdo King Ghidorah or Mechagodzilla; not just because constant escalation is terrible for a work's longevity, but because there was no way to go "he's stronger than Monster Zero" without it feeling forced. Likewise, I really enjoyed what we did get of Scar King; they made every second of screentime he had count, with you learning everything you needed in his introduction with Kong, and the MonsterVerse continues to show excellent creature design.
My biggest complaint with the movie, to not spoil anything else, was the soundtrack. Tom Holkenborg's score is completely soulless, just like it was in Godzilla vs. Kong – not a single track sticks with you, with one exception, and that one exception is because it's a generically overblown, borderline insulting rendition of a previous theme. A theme that wasn't even going to originally be in the movie, going by one reputable leaker's reports.
*angsty teen phase
"I AM GROOT"
"Whoa! Language!"
I'm going to see it in 3D…again lol
I wish it was just donkey Kong and diddy Kong fighting the evil monkeys.
Thanks!
@5:00 good lord 🤣
ENTER THE GODZILLA X KONGA-THONG THAT IS MY MIND
Definitely agree Skar King and Shimo needed more screen time and buildup, preferably with either Skar or Shimo being the only main antagonist to emphasize the threat.
I hope they bring back ghidora
I saw it on Sunday with my Dad, it was a belated birthday present. I LOVED that there were more Kaiju. I like that it was more brutal but it also felt off too. I laughed when Kong used Suko as a weapon it was HILARIOUS 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I LOVED that they beought back Mothra. I think they built up Skar King pretty well but maybe a few more scenes with him being brutal would have been nice. I also think that the ending fight with Skar and Shimo should have been longer at least 5 to 7 minutes longer. They were built up to be heavy hitters but the fight only lasted like 7 minutes.
From what I heard they always wanted mothra but were not sure if they’d get the rights so they made a placeholder. They then got the rights before the screening but not in enough time to make the swap.
Who has Scott Hall engery? Godzilla or Kong?
KotM is one of my favorite Goji films period, but I loved this one possibly beyond that one even. It was a ton of fun and I cheered at so many parts
What's weird is suko is the same size as kong in kong skull Island… that is trippy
Godzilla with his best impression of BROCK LESNAR.
Whens monster maulers
I feel like this movie is Kong's equivalent to 2019's King of the Monsters.
Godzilla x Kong: aka Rebecca Hall Explains It All 😅
I'm surprised my wife invited me to watch this movie. I heard about the reviews but went in with low expectation. I ended enjoying the movie and kept mini clapping when epic stuff came around lol. It's a fun movie but yes, I wish they fleshed the villains out more.
Mortha is a assisted trophy in the monster verse but you all act like she a powerful monster when she sucks in battle.
It was an overall fun movie, I enjoyed the fight scenes. I agree that the Skar King should've had a little more screen time.
I thought the human characters were not THAT annoying. At least Jia was the best one of the group. The tribal people were cool to.
I don't completely feel how you feel about the movie, but over all am with you. Our opinions can change as we learn more from others and see the film again of course. It's like you said any Godzilla and Kaiju films are a good thing. I loved the Showa era inspiration Adam Wingard put into this movie. There is so much to love about it! I will be looking forward to a more in depth review of the movie in the future. I really enjoyed your review and thank you for contributing to the Godzilla and Kong community!
Anyonez in here .plzzzz…can u tell me pleaz ….HOW MUCH GODZILLA…will i get as a mega ultra super duper 1954 loyal GODZILLA fan ?!? I even LIKED the the 1998 film cuz i was like 8! (I keep getting diffrent answers)…..if he gets shadowed(again like G vs K)2021 …with more KONG … ill wait…. at most take my nephew to see it if he wants too(i dont wanna let him down tho either hes a Godzilla fan now….. cuz uncles are the best! And i raised him well) ❤❤
You NEED to do a what happened with suicide squad game. It was the biggest flop in a long time for a game that was supposed to be good.
The Kong-athon was great and would love to see it brought back and I support calling it another "Kong-athon" regardless of context
I loved it ❤
It was a mixture of Showa, Heisei and Final Wars.
BUT THAT SUPLEX THO!
I did really love when godzilla was walking and a helicopter was buzzing around him like an annoying fly and he essentially yelled at it lol. Also mothra 😊
Havent had so much fun in the cinema for years!
Is it fair for me to call the Pink form Godzilla gets is Super Sayin Rosé Godzilla?
What I like about this and the last movie is the movie is mostly about Kong and monarch having a plot while Godzilla is treated as a force of nature and is just here to wreck shit.
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i think they shoulda paired megalon, hedorah, or maybe even gigan with scar king to make things more hype along with more overall screen time for the kaiju instead of the human side of the story, and tbh given how it came out to the cinemas I'd give it a 7.5/10
Monsterverse Gigan and Megalon vs Godzilla and Jet Jaguar. DO IT YOU COWARDS
Next movie should be an adoptation of the Monsterverse vs Justice League comic. #WhyNot