The uneasy alliance forged between the kaiju big boys in 2021’s Godzilla vs. Kong is tapped again in returning director Adam Wingard’s gleeful, eye-saucering smackdown. Godzilla x Kong is loaded with even more colossal beasties, nods to the Showa-era Godzilla films, and a lot of goo. Just don’t expect the humans to match the monsters’ expressiveness.
Wingard’s film picks up after the destruction of Mechagodzilla and Kong’s departure to the subterranean Hollow Earth, leaving Godzilla battling city-stomping enemies on the surface. Trouble is, it takes a good hour to explain just how we’re going to get to the fur-flying, earth-shaking, atomic-blasting fisticuffs we’ve come for.
