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‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ Review: The Titans Of The Monsterverse Join Forces Against Evil But It Is All Still Just More Of The Same Stomp Fest
A review of 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire' in which the monsterverse titans must team up to defeat a greater world threat than battling each other.
Returning from the 2021 film is Kong expert Dr. Ilene Andrews ( Rebecca Hall) , and the orphaned Iwi girl Jia (Kaylee Hottle) who speaks only in sign language but in this edition is presented as the last survivor of her people – or is she? Joining them is a confident new character, Monarch veternarian and creature keeper, Trapper (a lively Dan Stevens) who is ready to rock and roll, especially in one fun scene where he swoops in on his motorized modern contraption in order to equip the seemingly mortally injured Kong with a new metal arm after he lost his own. That little Japanese film which became the first Godzilla movie of any kind to win an Oscar (Best Visual Effects) probably cost less to make than the crafts service budget on any of these studio Monsterverse epics, but still delivered three dimensional human beings in a story that stands apart.
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