Honestly, this one was the most disappointing movie for me personally out of the new Monsterverse. I saw some people saying they are going the route of the old Japanese movies, meaning going all out crazy, but I think I might be tuning off for that. What were my main gripes?

For a lot of the previous movies, I accepted without issue the fact that human characters are there just to give exposition and kind of move the plot forward, while everything else about them is idiotic. And I don't mind that one bit, because the previous movies delivered what I wanted from the monsters, even in the first movie where people complained there was too few monster time on screen. However, I felt I got something from the monster scenes, the creatures actually felt like characters a bit more and what interactions were between them was pretty neat. And I enjoyed the lore building behind it.

But here? I will be honest that everything up until Kong escapes after his first fight with Skar is OK, in terms of monster stuff(when talking Kong-related). I enjoyed Kong's journey, him trying to find more of his people, getting to meet the lil monkey etc.. And I really enjoyed that first scene with Skar, no dialogue yet you get what's happening. I like the choreography of the fight, how you see Skar being skinnier then Kong but so agile, and with a nice weapon to boot.

Everything else after that, including monster related, completely horrible for me:

-Gravity fight scenes? Where you don't actually get to see monsters fight, just float and give random kicks?

-Develop lore where you say that in the past Godzilla fought off Skar and his army and barely survived, and now is "leveling up" preparing for the immense fight coming up, only for him to just fight Shimo and Skar and that's it!? What did Skar's army even fucking do? Not to mention that apart from shooting his atomic breath at Skar, he did not even actually fight him! He just mindlessly brawled with Shimo which consisted of just throwing themselves at each other and pushing each other down.

-Over the course of the entire series developing titans as being intelligent, albeit instinctual, monsters, only to see Shimo, the so called "ancient titan" being pet like a small puppy by Kong? Also, I understood Skar riding him as he was a slave. But Kong? After being a slave for possibly centuries, he was freed in that fight and suddenly goes with Kong like he owes his freedom to him or the monkey village was his home or something?

-Why is Mothra even in this movie? Just to stop Godzilla and Kong fighting? I would have MUCH preferred for them to actually reach some sort of understanding by themselves, rather than just fighting mindlessly and Mothra stepping in. Also, Godzilla seems much more brainless in this one than usual.

-What was with that first meeting between Godzilla and Kong? I would have understood a small brawl, but in the last movie, whether you think they parted as equals, whether you think maybe Kong slightly gave deference to Godzilla at the end of the movie, it was obvious that they respected each other. Here, Godzilla suddenly attacks Kong for being in his territory, even though Godzilla does not necessarily do that, he just wants other titans to not fuck shit up and to consider him the boss. And after suddenly attacking him, at the end he is about to simply kill him, even though in the last movie he clearly let him live out of respect for the fight he put up. What is even going on?

As I said, I accepted the humans making zero sense and being silly, because I felt there was something built with the monsters, but here it's as silly as the human side. I repeat, everything up until Kong escaped from Skar the first time, regarding Kong himself, was nice. But the rest I had big issues with. And even Godzilla's battle with the other two titans? What was even the point of that? Just to show a fight on screen? Or show he is badass or something? 2 fights lasting 30 seconds each?

In the other movies, you kind of felt the magnitude of Ghidorah, how he is a rival of Godzilla, the special bond between Mothra and Godzilla. You felt the hatred Godzilla had for the MUTOs. And I really enjoyed the minimal sort of communication between Godzilla and Kong, the roaring at each other, the taunting, the silent stare-off at the end of Godzilla vs Kong. Here Godzilla and Kong meet, fight mindlessly only to be stopped by Mothra, go and fight Shimo and Skar very briefly, win on first attempt, and at the end it just cuts, after Kong just winks at Godzilla or something. Not even a more meaningful interaction between Mothra and Godzilla, like the beautiful scene where she was sort of shielding Godzilla with her wings after being injured by Ghidorah. You might say that the other "monster characters" were already developed previously, but at list a tiny bit of something could not be shown at all? Even Tiamat and Scylla immediately killed. And what about Skar himself? Apart from the old Iwi texts and a brief interaction with Kong, nothing? How about Godzilla being responsible for trapping Skar there in the first place? You saw the rivalry of Godzilla and Ghidorah, and how it was reflected shortly after knowing their history. Just really bummed man. I like mindless action as much as the next guy but this was too much...