Spoiler Alert! Godzilla King of the Monsters wasn't a perfect film, worthy of awards, or a shoo-in for an oscars but it did have multiple gigantic monsters in an insane Boston destroying battle royal. After all, why would you go to the theater to watch a Godzilla movie, or any other CGI heavy summer block-buster for that matter, other than the exciting spectacle. The latest entry in Warner Brother's Monsterverse has a low 39% on the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing, mainly because I feel the critics have forgotten that. Pointing out the short-comings of the writing, or the effortless plot and those issues do persist but who cares.
As in the original Toho films from the 50s, Godzilla King of the Monsters as well as the Monterverse itself includes a not-so-subtle environmentalist message, a cautionary tale about disrupting the delicate balance of nature. Expressing that message is why the humans are in the film and to set up the fight between Godzilla and King Ghidorah. When the epic slug-fest began it felt like a WWE Wrestlemania main event with the momentum shifting back and forth. It was a hell of a slobberknocker as WWE commentating legend Jim Ross would say. When reviewing a Godzilla film the critics main concern should have been the fight not the exposition. This is something Warner Brothers understands; after the 2012 Godzilla film did not showcase the titular titan as much as fans would have liked the studio more than doubled the amount of Godzilla's screen time for the sequel.
Reportedly, the next installment in the Monsterverse will pit Godzilla against King Kong, and I for one can not wait. Not because I anticipate what shenanigans the human characters will get into but because I want to watch Godzilla and King Kong kick each others ass. You know that inevitably the two monsters will decide to work together to defeat a greater threat, and what could possibly be so powerful and so deadly it requires the teamwork of Godzilla and King Kong to take them out?
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