FILM REVIEW
'Godzilla vs Kong': Duel of the Titans
In 'Kong: Skull Island' (2017) , the second title in the saga that continues today with the recently released 'Godzilla vs. Kong ' , full canonization of the so - called MonsterVerse (the cinematic universe shared by both characters), King Kong had them monsters such large proportions as yours, digital fights lacking the craft poetry of the first ' King Kong ' of 1933, in which the supernatural-sized ape fought piecemeal with the usual dinosaurs and reptiles of the prehistoric repertoire.

For his part, Godzilla , the creature generated in fiction by real nuclear terror, the reaction and metaphor of Japanese cinema to the bombs on Hiroshijma and Nagasaki, has already been involved in various troubles with other gigantic radioactive mutations. In 'Godzilla Strikes Back (The King of the Monsters)' (1955) he dealt with Anguilas, an armored quadruped, in addition to destroying the city of Osaka.

The collision between the Japanese mutant lizard and the American King Kong would not be long in coming. The creator of Godzilla, Ishiro Honda, faced them on Mount Fuji itself in 'King Kong vs. Godzilla' (1962). Despite being a Japanese production, it was Kong who protected humanity from the radioactive entity: taken prisoner on an island during a scientific expedition, Kong became Tokyo's savior from the threat of the creature with a stony body and lethal breath. Counting this film, Godzilla has appeared in more than 30 films, including the Japanese series and Hollywood variations, while Kong has appeared in a dozen. There is no color.

The absolute festival came in 'Godzilla: King of the Monsters' (2019), a North American production built from Godzilla's confrontations with three great 'kaiju' (the name given to the giant monsters of Japanese fiction in popular culture): Ghidorah, Rodan and Mothra. These three ancestral creatures had already had their leading role in Japanese films: Godzilla faced Ghidorah, the three-headed 'kaiju' in 1964, with the collaboration of the other two - it seemed the Japanese replica of the Hollywood films that crowded in the same footage Dracula, Frankenstein and the Werewolf–, but in another film of the same year he had as a rival Mothra, the colossus in the shape of a butterfly.

In 'Monsters Invade Earth' (1965), Godzilla and Rodan are sent to Jupiter to kill Ghidorah, who has the Jupiterians dominated. And in the following 'The monsters of the sea' (1966), Godzilla fights against Ebirah, a kind of giant lobster used by a communist group to protect the island where they carry out atomic tests. He would also face off with the mutant Megalon beetle and other nightmare hybrids. Imagination was not lacking in the creators of the saga.