Review: ‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is a worthy ‘When Hairy Met Scaly II’
Guy behind the concession counter the other night asks me which movie I’m seeing. “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” I tell him. He puts down the popcorn and heaves a nearly convulsive sigh of relief. Gratitude? Hope? All of it. A mashup of emotions, to go with the movie’s mashup of species.
“Oh, man,” the concession worker says. “We really need that one.”
“Dune II” notwithstanding, it has been a difficult year at the average movie theater. Now comes the new Godzilla/Kong smackdown — the marketing materials, for the record, tell us that the “x” in “Godzilla x Kong” is silent, which is a confusing waste of a perfectly
