The Legendary MonsterVerse is arguably the most successful cinematic universe behind the MCU and, as we tie up the first quarter of 2024, we have another entry in the franchise. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, apart from sounding like a collaborative clothing brand or a Fortnite-esque crossover, continues the tradition of smashing the big lizard and the big monke together after Godzilla vs. Kong in 2021.
We won’t talk much more about the setting and the plot for two reasons: we don’t do spoilers in our reviews and, well, it doesn’t matter that much. As long as Titans are bashing each other the plot is not just taking a back seat, but it could be shoved in the boot. Well The New Empire pulls a real curveball on us because you do spend more time with the Titans, but much of that is Kong discovering the other apes. It’s hilarious that large chunks of this movie are these building-sized monkeys beating their chests, roaring and doing animal stuff but, you know, bigger.
Also good is Dan Stevens as the “Titan vet” character Trapper who plays the “I wear a Hawaiian shirt and nothing phases me, man” archetype, but does it so well and so naturally that we can’t complain. We still think more could have been done, and should have been done, to sell these apocalyptically large brawls as the world-ending spectacles they are, but we will say that the CGI managed to hold up for the most part which can’t also be said for these projects that rely so heavily on effects.
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