The 2014 Godzilla was enjoyable but not great. The most common criticism was the habit of cutting away from the monster action as soon as it became interesting, but that wasn't the issue. The real issue, which has been expanded on with every theatrical follow-up film, is the fact when they cut away it's to underdeveloped characters that either have no personality or an exaggerated, trope-filled personality, aka "Look at me! I'm an interesting character because I'm flamboyant and loud and kooky!".
Godzilla x King: The Stupidest Title Yet takes that to a new level. The human characters are cartoons with no resemblance to real people that I might care about. Unfortunately I also don't believe any of the monsters are real because the CG and animation are also cartoonish and therefore not good enough to sell the suspension, unlike the 1/10th budget Godzilla Minus One and unique Shin Godzilla. Those films also illustrate another problem with the Hollywood versions: the monsters are way too big. They clearly subscribed to the "Bigger is better" mindset, but it makes them even more difficult to take seriously as living organisms since our brains default to basic grade school science that tells us such things couldn't exist due to their own mass. The monsters in the others are already on the cusp of that suspension, so going bigger is definitely not better.
The only interesting and engaging characters in the Legendary Monsterverse are in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
Godzilla x King: The Stupidest Title Yet takes that to a new level. The human characters are cartoons with no resemblance to real people that I might care about. Unfortunately I also don't believe any of the monsters are real because the CG and animation are also cartoonish and therefore not good enough to sell the suspension, unlike the 1/10th budget Godzilla Minus One and unique Shin Godzilla. Those films also illustrate another problem with the Hollywood versions: the monsters are way too big. They clearly subscribed to the "Bigger is better" mindset, but it makes them even more difficult to take seriously as living organisms since our brains default to basic grade school science that tells us such things couldn't exist due to their own mass. The monsters in the others are already on the cusp of that suspension, so going bigger is definitely not better.
The only interesting and engaging characters in the Legendary Monsterverse are in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
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