Godzilla vs King Kong

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Godzilla vs. Kong had a rocky development, first scheduled for May 29, 2020, then being moved up to March 13, 2020, only to be postponed again to November 20, 2020, and finally May 21, 2021. It was then pushed back to March 26, 2021, before finally arriving in American theaters on March 31, 2021. The film was also available to watch on HBO Max until April 30, 2021.

A sequel to the film is currently in the works.

Immediately after the assault, popular opinion began to change against Godzilla, and the monster was no longer seen as humanity's redeemed hero. After hearing the news of Godzilla's latest assault on her school, Madison Russell, now an adult and a listener of Bernie's podcast, is alarmed and calls Bernie to express her concern. After school, she attempts unsuccessfully to reason with her widowed father Mark (who is serving as Monarch's director) about a potential lead on the cause of Godzilla's rampage, but he ignores everything she says, stating merely that beasts, like humans, may evolve, which she finds absurd. Later, Madison enlists the assistance of her closest friend Josh Valentine in order to track down the person responsible for Godzilla's rampage and uncover the mysteries of Apex.

Nathan, Ilene, Jia, and an Apex crew lead by Walter's daughter Maia board a customized boat with a barely drugged Kong locked up to keep him from escaping. On a rainy night, Kong grows unhappy and begins to tug on the shackles that restrict him, but Jia calms him down by allowing her and Kong to hold fingers in solidarity as Kong signs the word "home" much to Ilene's surprise. The following day, Ilene tells Nathan about raising Jia as her adopted daughter when violent and unpredictable storms wiped away most of the Iwi and her parents, but Jia was the sole survivor since Kong was the one who protected her, which led to the two forging a relationship.

At this moment, Jia detects Godzilla's arrival by detecting vibrations throughout the ship as the Titan approaches and assaults the troops before capsizing the barge, almost drowning Kong and the others on board. Fortunately, Nathan frees Kong by releasing him from his shackles, enabling him to fight Godzilla beneath long enough to swim to the surface and tip the barge back on its head, sparing the passengers from drowning. Kong gets onboard a neighboring aircraft carrier to confront Godzilla, who climbs aboard to confront Kong. The two Titans trade vicious punches until fighter aircraft distract Godzilla enough for Kong to force him back into the sea. Godzilla unleashes his atomic breath from under the carrier, but Kong leaps to avoid the explosion, only for Godzilla to wrap his tail around Kong and take him into the depths of the ocean, aiming to drown the Titan.

Nathan sees no other alternative and determines that the gang should turn down all of the ships' engines to fool Godzilla into believing he destroyed them and Kong was vanquished, which they do. Godzilla looks at the shattered fleet with interest and then swims away, knowing he has triumphed. After realizing that reactivating the ships could allow Godzilla to return, the group decides to fly Kong to a Hollow Earth entry point in Antarctica, where Ghidorah was first frozen. Jia tells Kong that his house is via the front door, but he refuses to leave.

They come face to face with Apex's ultimate weapon, "Mechagodzilla" a mechanical Godzilla led by the late Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's son, Ren Serizawa. Once the mecha is fired up, Walter sends in a massive adult Skullcrawler codenamed "Number 10" to put Mechagodzilla's Titan-fighting powers to the test. As the Skullcrawler approaches Madison, Josh, and Bernie, Mechagodzilla captures and restrains it before severing it with a massive red energy beam. The mecha immediately shuts down due to power supply constraints.

Kong and Nathan's crew discover a similar habitat to Skull Island in the bowels of the Earth. One of the HEAVs is wiped out by a pair of Warbats while they're out in the open. When Kong killed the first Warbat, he swung its body into the second one, knocking it out, but the monster regains consciousness and tries to ensnare him in a tight embrace. Nathan's squad in their HEAV launches missiles at the Warbat before Kong can smother it, allowing him to break free and pummel the beast to death before devouring its intestines.

Sensing Kong's presence in the Hollow Earth, Godzilla drills an atomic breath shaft into the environment, causing the temple to collapse. Kong and Nathan's team fight off a flock of Hellhawks while Maia and her team try to flee in their HEAV, only for Kong to grab it on their way out and, despite Maia attempting to shoot him in order to escape, he instantly crushes the aircraft in his hand after peeking inside to make sure that Jia, Ilene and Nathan aren't in there, killing Maia and her personnel inside.

Hearing Godzilla's scream as he gives him with another challenge, Kong accepts and begins to make his way to Hong Kong with his axe in hand through the hole caused by Godzilla's atomic breath, as Ilene, Nathan, and Jia follow him in their HEAV. When Kong confronts Godzilla in Hong Kong, he battles him again, this time getting the upper hand and shoving his axe down Godzilla's throat to prevent him from launching his atomic breath. Kong realizes that his axe is capable of not only blocking Godzilla's atomic breath, but also absorbing it, and uses his weapon to harm the Titan in the thigh, however Godzilla immediately removes and discards the axe. After evading and dodging Godzilla's assaults with the help of Hong Kong's structures and greater agility, Kong recovers his axe and brings it down on Godzilla, causing an explosion that pushes both Titans back, convincing Nathan that Kong has won the second round.

While Josh and Bernie try in vain to disable the ravaging robot remotely and Madison calls on Mark for assistance, Godzilla and Mechagodzilla fight, with Godzilla tiring from his earlier battle against Kong, but Mechagodzilla eventually gets the better of the fight, knocking Godzilla over and burning him to death. Nathan, Ilene, and Jia approach an unconscious Kong, where Jia detects that his pulse is decreasing, while Mechagodzilla proceeds to overrun and seriously beat Godzilla. In order to restart Kong's heart, Ilene tells Nathan that they can't produce a charge large enough to do so, but Nathan, remembering what Maia said earlier about the HEAVs producing a charge big enough to power Las Vegas for seven days, detonates the craft and releases a huge electrical charge, which instantly revives Kong.

Kong wakes to see Godzilla and Mechagodzilla battling before encountering Jia, who attempts to persuade him that Godzilla isn't truly his opponent. Though Kong doesn't believe her at first as he continues to witness Godzilla being overrun by Mechagodzilla, Jia explains the reality to him that the robot is the "real" adversary, not Godzilla. After a while, Kong ultimately accepts and sets aside his hatred before marching into combat to aid Godzilla while repairing his dislocated arm.

As Mechagodzilla prepares to fire its crimson energy beam into Godzilla's throat, Kong jumps atop the robot and deflect the beam into the air, thereby sparing Godzilla's life. Godzilla assists Kong in his struggle against Mechagodzilla after realizing Kong saved his life and recognizing an ally in him after witnessing that he is not an opponent.

Despite the titanic efforts of the two Titans, the robot ultimately triumphs. Mechagodzilla attempts to impale Kong with its tail drill, but Kong's axe has lost its charge and he manages to escape. There is nothing Bernie and the others can do for Kong or Godzilla, so he proposes that they drink. Bernie's flask is stolen by Josh, who has an epiphany, and he spills the contents of the flask over Mechagodzilla's control panel, forcing the creature to halt and enabling Godzilla and Kong to regain control of the battle.

Monarch built an observation station in the Hollow Earth later on. Ilene, Nathan, and Jia see Kong on his morning stroll one day. In his roaring declaration of himself as King of the Hollow Earth, Kong leaps atop a cliff, pounding his chest and welcoming Jia as his new home and domain

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Godzilla vs. Kong has received mostly good reviews. As of April 16, 2021, the film has 341 reviews on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 254 of which were fresh, with a "Tomatometer" rating of 74% certified Fresh. According to the site's critics' consensus, "Delivering squarely on its title, Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out."

At 113 minutes, Godzilla vs. Kong is the MonsterVerse's shortest film.

Godzilla vs. Kong is the shortest MonsterVerse film with a running duration of 113 minutes.