Movie Analysis: Godzilla - King of the Monsters (2019)

The MonsterVerse of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. goes on and the King of the Monsters is back with exactly that movie title. We had to wait five years for the continuation of the first Godzilla movie, although we also got to see King Kong in the meantime. Both belong to the movie franchise that started in 2014 and will probably end (?) with a mega confrontation in Godzilla vs Kong next year, in 2020.

But before Godzilla can fight his upcoming final battle, he must defeat King Ghidorah.

The Story:

After Godzilla had saved the world against the two monsters named Muto five years ago and disappeared in the open sea, a lot has happened. In the meantime, the organization Monarch has found countless more monsters all over the world, which they call Titans and which are all still in hibernation. Various crypto-zoological scientists of the organization monitor and try to study these Titans. Dr. Ishiro Serizawa and Dr. Vivienne Graham are trying to convince the US politicians that the monsters are not a danger, although the politicians have long ago decided to bring Monarch and their research under command and wipe out all the monsters.

Along the way while Dr. Emma Russell is examining the monster Mothra in a secret base, she and her daughter Madison is kidnapped by eco-terrorists and taken to the Antarctic to wake up the zero monster Ghidora. Monarch is informed of the events and recruits Dr. Emma Russell's husband to help with the search and rescue them. But when they find her it is already late and nothing seems to be what it looked like...

My Opinion:

After Roland Emmerich's strange Godzilla interpretation was a giant fail, Godzilla from the cooperation between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros was again the monster everyone loved. As a huge fan of Godzilla I had already celebrated the first film and waited with full suspense for the second part. Although the first movie had offered too less Godzilla and even less monster fights, the second movie makes up for that. Where the first film still put the people in the foreground, the second film does it with the monsters. The creators seem to have learned from their mistakes, and that's great, because we get a monster movie how it must be!

The human figures in the movie are still mostly involved in what's happening, but the focus of the whole film lies on the monsters. Sure, there are many well-known faces like Millie Bobby Brown from the Netflix series Stranger Things, Vera Farmiga from Bates Motel and the Conjouring movies, or Charles Dance from Game of Thrones, but their roles and the whole story of the movie are only secondary, so that the movie can at least offer some story.