Wrestle, King Kong! Run, Godzilla! Fight, monsters!

The movie "Godzilla vs. Kong: Rise of an Empire" (hereinafter referred to as "Godzilla vs. Kong 2") is a "brainless" enjoyable movie from beginning to end.

"Godzilla vs. Kong 2" poster

To say that this film has no plot and no logic at all, the film's creative team will probably complain. Since the release of "Godzilla" in 2014, the "MonsterVerse" (MonsterVerse, abbreviated as MV) has built the main universe through 5 movies, 1 TV series and several comics and novels.

Godzilla, due to absorbing too much gamma ray energy in Tiamat Cave, appeared in the film as a limited edition "Pink Godzilla", also jokingly called "Kenzilla"

In short, in the current "Monster Movie Universe", Godzilla is the monster brother of the earth. He will fight with anyone who competes with him for the boss position. If he wants to destroy the earth's environment, he will destroy him. .

King Kong

The Godzilla clan and the King Kong clan have an ancestral feud, and today's King Kong is considered the only child of their "Old Jin family". Starting from 2017's "Kong: Skull Island", King Kong has also developed, from more than thirty meters when he first appeared. , soared to a height of more than 100 meters.

In the last episode of "Godzilla vs. Kong" (2021), Godzilla and King Kong fought from Antarctica to Hong Kong. It can be said that the fight was dark and the earth was dark, and true feelings were created. In order to prevent the two happy enemies from fighting each other as soon as they met, the Emperor Organization sent King Kong into the inner world of the earth. Therefore, as long as the king does not see the king, the earth should, probably, probably will not be destroyed by these two brothers.

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The accident happened anyway, and this is the plot of "Godzilla vs. Kong 2". Previously, the film crew solemnly changed "VS" in the previous episode to "X" in this episode, which indicates that Godzilla and King Kong have changed from rivals to teammates, because "X" has "together" ( together) meaning. In the movie, Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra and Suko battled Scar King and Snow Demon, a 4 versus 2 situation between good and evil. As for humans...

The good thing about "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" is that it has relatively few people. This is not to say that there are no human roles in the film, but that humans do not steal the spotlight in a monster movie.

For many years, Hollywood has always been unable to avoid the creation of "giant" themes - humans (especially the US military) and good "giants" fighting against evil "giants" - this creative model, such as transformation The King Kong series is also like the previous "Monster Movie Universe". Although humans are basically used as cannon fodder when fighting monsters/giants, and ultimately they have to rely on their big men to resolve the battle, humans jump around when monsters fight. This leads to some embarrassing phenomenon in these movies, which is equivalent to Liu Chan saying that he and Zhao Yun once killed seven in and seven out in Changban Slope.

"Godzilla vs. Kong 2" basically solves the problem of humans stealing the show. The role of humans is limited to threading threads. They become teleprompters for the mute monster in the film, used for scenes and gags. At the end of the film, the little girl Ji Ya showed up at the final battle scene with Mothra, just to provide support. It can be said that the monsters still have to deal with the monsters themselves.

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Of course, although "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" solved the old problem of humans stealing the show, it also fell into the new problem of anthropomorphism. This sign has started to appear since the last episode. In "Godzilla vs. King Kong", although Godzilla and King Kong fight each other when they meet, the author always feels that the two monsters are "fighting at the end of the bed and at the end of the bed." You may wish to read the Douban short reviews of "Godzilla vs. Kong", and you will find comments such as "The biggest CP in history" and "Eating it, eating it".

In "Godzilla vs. Kong 2", since one of the two monsters is on the surface and the other is in the center of the earth, there are not many interactive scenes, leaving CP parties with basically no sugar to eat, but when Godzilla curls up to sleep At that moment in the Colosseum, were you sure you were seeing Godzilla, or the giant orange sleeping in a cat's nest?

Pets at home will show human childlike behavior to gain the attention of their owners. So, why are the monsters in the "Monster Movie Universe" getting more and more silly and cute?

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