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Godzilla vs Kong reawakens the franchise and injects some of the Japanese films’ spirit, without the substance – ABC News
The skirmishes are rollicking fun and visually spectacular — but this latest match-up never quite escapes the feeling of pixels pummeling each other.
It’s a rumble for the ages or at least the last 60 years, ever since Japan’s most famous radioactive reptile first squared off against Hollywood’s ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’, the Empire State Building-scaling simian with a bad temper but a big heart.
Complete with an actor in a wonderfully ropey ape suit, Ishiro Honda’s King Kong vs Godzilla (1962) jumpstarted Toho Studios’ classic Shwa era of kaiju (or: “monster”) showdowns films that drew as much on professional wrestling as they did the studio’s…
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