{"id":21076,"date":"2021-06-15T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21076"},"modified":"2021-05-20T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:25:00","slug":"nics-flicks-godzilla-vs-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/06\/15\/nics-flicks-godzilla-vs-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic\u2019s Flicks<\/em>: Godzilla vs. Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> (2021)
\n2.5\/4<\/p>\n

Throughout its seven-year history, MonsterVerse has been one of the weirdest movie franchises out there. 2014\u2019s Godzilla<\/em>\u2014its first movie\u2014and 2017\u2019s Kong: Skull Island<\/em> were both fun rides but were also criticized for giving Godzilla and King Kong supporting roles instead of the lead roles that the movies advertised.<\/p>\n

After their laughable failed attempt to course correct with 2019\u2019s Godzilla: King of the Monsters<\/em>, we\u2019ve been given the follow-up film, Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>, which, as the title suggests, takes the franchise\u2019s two title characters and pins them against each other for our entertainment. I will admit that this does make for a fun movie experience that\u2019s fuelled by spectacular monkey-versus-monster fights and eye-popping special effects, but this film also is extremely lacking when it comes to well-structured characters and a consistent plot.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Shakespeare it’s not, but Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> is at least fun (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of the human characters in the film are ridiculously underdeveloped in more ways than one. Every actor portrays their character as the highest life form around, and they spend the bulk of their screen time desperately searching for a reason why there are relevant (and they wind up never finding that reason).<\/p>\n

The characters from the previous movie that show up don\u2019t do this movie any favours and end up sinking the film rather than keeping it afloat. The actors play their exact same characters from the previous film, and no one has changed. For example, the rebellious teenager played by Millie Bobby Brown from Godzilla: King of Monsters<\/em> still spends the whole movie being rebellious. The concerned father played by Kyle Chandler from Godzilla: King of Monsters<\/em> is still very concerned about his daughter. The characters haven\u2019t shown growth between movies, never mind during them.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing really new or even remotely interesting with these cut-and-paste characters. In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say that the movie would have been much better off just featuring Godzilla and Kong and having no humans in it at all.<\/p>\n

In short, if you want Shakespeare, go look somewhere else, but if you want a fun and nonsensical action monster bash, then Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> will deliver what you\u2019re after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) 2.5\/4 Throughout its seven-year history, MonsterVerse has been one of the weirdest movie franchises out there. 2014\u2019s Godzilla\u2014its first movie\u2014and 2017\u2019s Kong: Skull Island were both fun rides but were also criticized for giving Godzilla and King Kong supporting roles instead of the lead roles that the movies advertised. After their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21080,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions\/21080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}