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“#Beast battles worthy of big screen<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The time is now. The day is here. After seven years,\u00a0 Legendary\u2019s MonsterVerse has finally reached the \u201cvs.\u201d stage. Remember how the old Japanese Godzilla films, with shoestring plots, had the lizard fight everyone but Apollo Creed? Now the reboot franchise is also kicking character development to the curb in favor of beast battles.<\/p>\n

The first round, \u201cGodzilla vs. King Kong,\u201d pits \u2018Zilla against his ultimate foe, and is far better than the tedious environmentalist screed that was \u201cGodzilla: King of the Monsters,\u201d a film darker than a Russian wake.<\/p>\n

I was a bit concerned at the start of the new one, though. Director Adam Wingard\u2019s movie \u2014 out Wednesday in theaters and streaming on HBO Max<\/a> \u2014\u00a0begins with a lazy Kong mulling about Skull Island and scratching his butt while the upbeat song \u201cOver the Mountain, Across the Sea\u201d plays. Pretty stupid. This franchise shouldn\u2019t take itself too seriously, but it shouldn\u2019t be a CBS sitcom pilot.<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 113 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of creature violence\/destruction and brief language).\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Worry not. The initial lightness serves as misdirection for an exciting sci-fi reveal \u2014\u00a0 that the island has been turned into a cage to keep Kong trapp<\/a>ed for his and humanity\u2019s protection. Otherwise, it\u2019s been three years since anybody has seen a so-called titan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The honeymoon ends when Godzilla emerges from the sea and, like a mask-less Miami reveler, attacks Florida with his deadly breath \u2014 specifically the Apex Cybernetics company in Pensacola.<\/p>\n

Scientists from Monarch, the secretive group that studies the titans, decide the only way to vanquish \u2018Zilla is with Kong\u2019s ka-pow, so the furball is freed from captivity. <\/p>\n

Yes, there are also some humans scurrying about. Millie Bobby Brown is back as the titan-obsessed Madison, the daughter of Monarch workers. She speculates Apex must have provoked Godzilla somehow for him to attack, so she goes into full \u201cStranger Things\u201d mode and investigates the disaster zone with her pal Josh (Julian Dennison) and a conspiracy podcaster, Bernie (Brian Tyree Henry). <\/p>\n

The more engaging people plot involves a deaf orphaned native girl on Skull Island, Jia (Kaylee Hottle), who happens to be Kong\u2019s tiny best friend. The pair have several sweet moments, because it\u2019s much easier for us to love a fuzzy monkey than a fire-breathing dinosaur.<\/p>\n

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King Kong surveys Hollow Earth, a rocky subterranean world where the titans originated, in \u201cGodzilla vs. Kong.\u201d <\/figcaption>
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Jia, the biologist who looks after Kong, Ilene (Rebecca Hall), and a geologist named Nathan (Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd) accompany the primate to an underground kingdom called Hollow Earth, where the titans originated, to recover a power source he can use to kill Godzilla. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s during their journey to the center of the earth that Wingard proves his visual panache. The last two Godzilla films were determined to make the monsters impossible to spot. \u201cOh, is Ghidorah on set? Slap a dust cloud in front of him!\u201d Hollow Earth, however, is a beautiful mountainous jungle with phosphorescent rocks and areas with no gravity at all. (OK, so they ripped off \u201cAvatar.\u201d That\u2019s what James Cameron deserves for taking 13 years to deliver a sequel.)<\/p>\n

Also better and brighter is the final battle. No offense to Boston, but when Godzilla leveled the city in \u201cKing of the Monsters,\u201d it wasn\u2019t the most difficult task. The tallest building in Beantown, 200 Clarendon Street, is the 292nd tallest building in the world. Meh. This time, \u2018Zilla and Kong face off in ginormous Hong Kong \u2014 a destruction junkie\u2019s dream battlefield. Neon, chrome and oversize animals clobbering each other. Also around is another adversary whose reveal will have fans drooling. See \u201cGodzilla vs. Kong\u201d on the big screen if you can.<\/p>\n

So, what will Legendary\u2019s next monster match-up be? I vote \u201cCuomo vs. de Blasio\u201d! <\/p>\n

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