Ross Karmen – Google

It is not as bad as I expected but not as good as I hoped for. The fighting scenes feel lacking, and the cgi is wonky at times, especially with Aang's airbending. The acting is subpar, making it hard to empathize with the characters or see them as their original cartoon versions. The final kicker was making Zuko's sfar so much less prominent. In the cartoon, his scar looks more intense and he doesnt have an eyebrow left. In this, his scar is simply different colored skin that looks more like a birthmark than a burn. I feel like it takes away from how severely his father wounded him, both emotionally and physically.

I am glad to see all of the good reviews on Google because reading some of the reviews on IMDB felt redundant. People complained that this movie was a rip-off of James Bond, had too much profanity, and was unrealistic. IT IS LITERALLY A COMEDY!!! I mean, seriously, some people really need to lighten up. I honestly love this movie. Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham were amazing every time their characters interacted. This is one of those movies you watch that you can tell was a lot of fun to film. It is great to see the diverse cast and fun characters!

I wanted to like this movie, but honestly, it is horrible. First off, the voice acting is horrible. The characters sound nothing like they have sounded for decades. The worst thing about this movie is that it didnt even feel like I was watching a Scooby Doo movie. In Scooby Doo movies, there is supposed to be a big mystery to solve, but there is none in this movie. The villain is revealed from almost the beginning. There are a bunch of cameos to other cartoons by Hannah Barbera, but they feel redundant to the plot. Like, it isnt the first time that a Scooby Doo movie has had scifi aspects as well as dinosaurs in the same movie, but this movie feels so disconnected. Not only that, instead of focusing on the Mystery Inc gang, they focus on Scooby and Shaggy as well as a few other characters. The superhero aspect didnt add anything to the plot. In fact, I think it took away from it. I understand that this is a kid's movie, but I have seen so many Scooby Doo movies that easily are better than this one. This one was just lazy.

It wasnt a horrible movie, but it definitely is over-hyped. The plot was pretty predictable, the fight scenes were short and not well choreographed, the special effects were often odd looking, and the characters were so cliche. It focused so much on trying to be a feel good morally correct story that it forgot to have any originality. Many scenes just felt awkward or just plain unnecessary. The character of Barbara was especially bad and cliche. The main villain was not much better in that they tried to make you feel sorry for him. Overall, it was fine to watch once, but I will definitely not sit for another 2 and a half hours to watch it again.

I will start this off by admitting that I am a little biased in that I have never been a fan of King Kong. Irregardless, I will try to be unbiased in my review. Overall, the movie was entertaining. It lacked the amazing cinematography of the 2014 Godzilla movie but still outshined King of the Monsters in that aspect. That being said, there were many points I felt it was lacking. Spoilers Ahead: In King of the Monsters, we learn that Godzilla travels using subterranean pathways. In this movie, it is revealed that there is an entire subterranean world. Within this world, the gravity is altered, there are new monsters, and there are ruins left by King Kong's ancestors. The ruins were honestly predictable because up until that point they were heavily hinted at. Also, it was extremely cliche that there are axes at these ruins that seem to be perfectly constructed to wield against Godzilla since they absorb his beam attacks. It was super cliche. It was also never revealed how this subterranean world might relate to Godzilla with how he uses subterranean tunnels to travel. Another confusing aspect is when they say that Godzilla's ancestors have historically fought with King Kong's ancestors. If this were the case, why wasnt this mentioned in King of the Monsters when they found records of Godzilla fighting Ghidora? Also, did Ghirdora battle both the Kongs and the Godzillas or just the Godzillas? How old does this make Godzilla and Kong? Another question is where the other titans from King of the Monsters went to after the movie and where they were during Godzilla vs. Kong. Another issue with the movie is the lackluster appearance of Mechagodzilla. The amount of screen time that Mechagodzilla got made it feel like such an underwhelming threat. In the 2014 Godzilla, the Mutos collectively damage areas in Japan, Hawaii, Nevada, and California. In King of the Monsters, Ghidora travels thousands of miles in a hurricane of it's own creation and proceeds to beat down a huge fire bird before heading to the U.S. and causing havoc there. Mehcagodzilla barely made it out from underground and into Hong Kong to beat up Godzilla a bit before getting beaten down by Kong after Godzilla helps Kong charge his axe. It was pretty obvious throughout the movie that Godzilla and King would team up, but the overarching villain of Mechagodzilla seemed like such a mediocre threat. Especially after being hinted at for so long after the extra scene in King of the Monsters. There were also characters in the movie that felt redundant to the plot and overall unnecessary. The movie was definitely centered around King Kong rather than Godzilla, and it was disappointing that they didnt get even amounts of story within the movie. Instead, they focus on 2 new characters and Maddie as they break into the Apex headquarters (on accident). I know it is a movie, but the security for Apex is horrendous. Doors are left open and unlocked and hardly any guards or real security. They easily discover secrets about Apex and move around the headquarters before finally getting caught. Yet another cliche aspect of the movie. Overall, it was an entertaining movie, but it was very cliche and predictable. The villains seemed laughable, and there are many questions that go unanswered.

It wasnt as bad as the Nick Cage knock-off movie, but I still think it fell short. It just wasnt scary. The tense ambiance from the games was not translated into the movie. In the original game, you sit there dreading seeing one of them come on to the cameras or in the corridors. The movie wasnt tense at all. It was more story-driven than anything else. There is nothing wrong with that, but it didnt feel like a scary movie based on a scary game. I was hoping for more of the creepiness from the games rather than campiness.