GODZILLA vs. KONG and Suspending your Disbelief

Some spoilers ahead.

Godzilla Vs. Kong was a monstrous movie extravaganza with two mighty Titans destroying cities while trying to destroy each other.  Despite its convoluted narrative, GVK was a fun movie to behold.  It had all the explosions, carnage, and silly one-liners we have all come to expect from American blockbuster movies in the 21st century.  It also had an incredibly twisted, and ridiculously hard-to-believe plot.  Not that we should expect great story writing and well-thought-out plot points but here, you are required to suspend your disbelief a lot further than usual.

 GVK starts off with King Kong on Skull Island in some sort of outlandish dome to hide him from Godzilla, who basically swims around a lot, but would kill Kong if he should sense him or something like that.  Anyway, turns out they (the one-dimensional humans) need Kong to go to the Hollow Earth to find an energy source to help power a massive Godzilla-sized robot to kill any monsters that attack people.  I’m not making this up.

The Hollow Earth is a massive cavity in the center of our Earth where Kong, Godzilla, and several other gigantic creatures originate.  The inner core, the outer core, that we all learned in science class is thrown out with all the other logic this movie wanted nothing to do with.  But that's.... okay.

On the way to the Hollow Earth, lol, Kong and Godzilla battle it out on a U.S. military Aircraft carriers at sea, this is why we are watching this movie in the first place.  We want to see these two mammoth creatures go toe-to-toe in the ring, and I got to say, they delivered.  The fight was quite a match to behold in all its competent CGI deliciousness.

Godzilla eventually makes his way to Hong Kong wreaking havoc while Kong makes his way to the Hollow Earth to acquire the energy source.  Sorry, I’m laughing as I write this. Lol.  Kong and Godzilla eventually have it out in Hong Kong, knocking skyscrapers over like they were in a pinball machine.  Then, big shocker, like no one saw this coming, after they damn near kill each other, they join forces to destroy the evil human-made Godzilla robot and save humanity, not from Kong or Godzilla but by humanity????????  What the fuck!  The moral here is nature wins and humans lose – I guess.  I’m not really sure.  But that's...... okay.

Now don’t get me wrong, I might be a little over critical....... 

Good suspension of disbelief is Marty going back in time or John Wick shooting up a bar and killing a hundred trained killers.  Bad suspension of disbelief is Vin Diesel driving a sports car off the hundredth floor of a skyscraper and smashing through another skyscraper and surviving.

..........With that aside, this movie was silly but more importantly, this movie was fun.  Despite all the curve-ball mental-gymnastics, you might be required to perform, at the end of the day, this movie is a good time.