A lot of fun

No Woke

Childish

"Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" is a wildly zany film that might entertain kids, but it annoyed me. The childish, predictable plot was unappealing, and my wife was able to foresee events consistently. While a Godzilla movie should be fun, I prefer a more semi-serious approach like "Godzilla Minus One."

This was my first (and likely last) experience with this "universe," which apparently includes four previous movies. It was initially confusing. Kong is on our side? Okay. The Earth is hollow? Sure.

The film shares many elements with "Stargate SG-1"—pyramids, "alien" technology/ESP, ancient pictograms our hero can instantly read, and portals to another world. While I love "Stargate," this movie is no "Stargate."

The production staff seems influenced by woke ideology, evidenced by the diverse cast, a special sign language girl, the girl's adoptive single mother of another race, and the anthropomorphizing of the monsters. However, the writers didn't cross any clear lines. [Edit: I'll bump it up to a 1/5 woke rating based on Pha-Q's review.]

If you're looking for monster fights, there are some, mostly involving apes. However, you'd have to endure the dull human side plots. Keep in mind that the lowest score on this site is 0/5, so my score of 1/5 is not the lowest possible. Am I not merciful? Remember, "Godzilla Minus One" isn't part of this series and it's fantastic!

Why Is This Nonsense So Popular

How is this getting woke free ratings? Large amount of DEI. Multiple girl bosses. Only 1 white main male character surrounded by DEI casting. This in not counting the white pilot who is of course unlikable and killed quickly for being an idiot. Actually all male characters not just the white ones, are nothing more than comedy relief sidekicks. All positions of leadership and power are held by females. The acting is ok but the dialog is terrible. This entire movie is 1 giant corny, cheesy, eye rolling disaster. The story is cobbled together nonsense with inconsistencies
everywhere. The highlight of this should be giant monster action and great visuals. Sadly if fails there as well. Everything looks just
so fake, like a video game. It's too bright, glossy, shiny and clean. Nothing looks real. Kong acts too human in mannerisms and thought
process. They all do actually, this supposed to be a giant monster movie, you know animals. Not giant monsters acting like humans
The human integration looks like it was all done on a giant empty set with nothing but green screen. This weird effect was used
with blurring around the edges and backgrounds of shots that looks awful and makes it look even more fake. The characters are unlikable and the humor doesn't work and isn't funny, just bad. What was the point of the Kong sore tooth gag? Why the hell would you replace it with an implant? What's the point? It's ridiculous. Why does everything have to be some stupid joke now, nothing is serious. Giant monster movies shouldn't be a dumb comedy as a priority. So there are giant monsters on the surface causing death and hundreds of million of dollars in destruction regularly and everyone is fine with it? Constant rebuilding and money aren't a problem? Why would life continue as normal with no concerns about this at all? It's stupid. Kong is now some kind of survivalist Rambo type setting traps and leading his enemies
into them? WTF was that? Kong gets augmented with a transformers/Hellboy hand and Godzilla gets....the power of Pink. Sigh. This movie desperately wants to be a Marvel superhero movie and it just doesn't work. Godzilla 2014, skull island and King of the monsters are way better movies and understood what these movies are supposed to be. They were dark and more serious with a constant hint of dread, as it should be. This is just bright, shiny silly garbage for kids. Go watch Godzilla Minus One instead, that movie destroys this nonsense.

aparently theres alot of wokeness