Film Review Godzilla VS King Kong

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I celebrated getting my second Covid Vaccine Jab on Saturday with my first cinema trip since lockdown started – settled on Godzilla Vs Kong which is dumb fun. The monster fights (and unlike Superman V Batman there is a lot of action here) are well staged, and no, neither creature has a mum called Martha. It should be utter rubbish, but it is rather enjoyable hokum. Maybe it was partly the joy in being in a cinema again for the first time since about February last year. Spoilers It does get rather silly in the purely human scenes. Why would anyone let a child get so freely close to a dangerous wild animal as the quite cute mute girl gets to do. Three characters break into the villain's Apex bunker HQ really easily and wander round quite openly seeing pretty much the whole operation before finally getting caught and even then only get a bit of a telling off. The whole Hollow Earth conspiracy is ludicrous. While the 60’s showdown film with the two monsters had alternate endings, allowing each to win depending if you watched in the US or in Japan, this Rumble in the jungle, sea and city has a best out of three set up with Godzilla as clear ultimate winner but their fight is then interrupted by a third contestant as Mechagodzilla turns up and he is really well presented - Some silliness – Kong has a battle axe made from the backbone of a previous Godzilla and wields it like Thor’s Hammer. Humans fly round in futuristic flying cars worthy of Star Wars /Trek, and though the monsters do some damage to Tokyo, most of the city seems to get off relatively unscathed. It may be the loudest film ever - the music is loud and over-dramatic even when nothing big is happening, and characters often yell rather than talk Great fun though. Arthur Chappell