Run time: 115 mins

Director Adam Wingard teams up the titans for carnage galore as they do battle against an even deadlier world threat.

Let’s be honest. This was never going to be a quiet little indie movie. But even though chaos is always to be anticipated from Warner Bros’ MonsterVerse movies, there’s still an absolutely astonishing amount of gleeful creature-bashing action to witness. Like an over-excited child smashing his favourite toys together, Wingard is lord and overseer of this mayhem. And it seems he’s going even further into the knowingly oversized onslaught he keyed into last time.

We get gigantic teeth knocked out of gigantic mouths, bone-whips used to slice buildings in half and a shiny new B.E.A.S.T gauntlet for Mr. Kong’s mighty paw. There’s plenty of glowy Godzilla here too. Not just satisfied in his Barbie-tastic new pink incarnation, he’s also rippling with blue atomic energy, even seeming to emanate lightning at one point. But that guy’s always got new tricks up his scaly sleeves. On the human side of things, back from the previous film are the likes of Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry and Kaylee Hottle who get to enjoy all of this first-hand. All hail the monster kings.