It is… interesting that Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. has two “five-years-later” sequels to two of their big “new” franchises from way back in 2014. Okay, it’s a little more complicated than that, but The LEGO Movie 2 and Godzilla: King of the Monsters are explicitly sequels to The LEGO Movie and Godzilla. And now we have a trailer for Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla sequel.
After being bounced around the release schedule, it’s opening on May 31, 2019, more than five years after the last movie. While it was a big hit ($529 million worldwide and $200m domestic on a $160m budget), it was super-duper frontloaded (it opened with $93m just before Memorial Day weekend). The Gareth Edwards film had a mixed reception from audiences.
Equal parts “It looks stunning and has incredible scale!” and “Godzilla is barely in it and the human characters are thin” going around as critical consensus. I’ll be curious to see if this Godzilla movie is closer in spirit to Godzilla or Kong:
Skull Island, which was a brighter, more action-packed and character-driven monster adventure flick. That one earned $166m domestic and $566m worldwide, so they were both about as successful.
Equal parts “It looks stunning and has incredible scale!” and “Godzilla is barely in it and the human characters are thin” going around as critical consensus. I’ll be curious to see if this Godzilla movie is closer in spirit to Godzilla or Kong:
Skull Island, which was a brighter, more action-packed and character-driven monster adventure flick. That one earned $166m domestic and $566m worldwide, so they were both about as successful.
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