Godzilla Vs. Kong Review: 6 Ups & 4 Downs

5. It Doesn't Take Itself Seriously

The prior MonsterVerse movies have been balanced on something of a tonal razor's edge, attempting to take their destructive shenanigans seriously while introducing small slivers of humour which, more often than not, didn't really work.

King of the Monsters in particular felt like a miserable, self-serious slog with some ill-placed "comedy" that fell totally flat, but Godzilla vs. Kong's mood couldn't feel much more different.

For starters, it's decidedly less-tethered to reality than any previous MonsterVerse film, revelling in its inherent ridiculousness and occasionally winking at the audience that it knows how gloriously dumb this nonsense is.

The humour is pretty hit-and-miss overall, but there's little attempt to hold its own mythology in any sort of sacred or pretentious regard: you paid to see giant animals smacking each other around, and that's what you get.