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Did We Really Need Kaiju to Get All Cute?
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire doesn’t deliver the giant-monster goods, but it does make its creatures disconcertingly adorable.
He’s supercharging himself for a coming battle, though instead of emerging from his efforts looking more formidable, the result — fuchsia dorsal spines, eyes, and an overall glow — is disconcertingly adorable, like someone tried to dye a very angry cat. In the Japanese movie, which won an Oscar earlier this month for its visual effects, Godzilla is a disaster arriving on the shores of an already broken Japan at the end of World War II — a compounded nightmare mutated by nuclear tests carried out by an indifferent U.S. but also a symbol of despair. While the 2021 movie at least had its Day-Glo disco showdown in a neon-lit Hong Kong, the new one’s big idea is a zero-gravity fight in the Hollow Earth that renders the earth-shaking scale of its participants incidental.
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