1: The special effects: It was so cool to see the monsters from the past Godzilla movies updated for a Hollywood movie. They did a great job bringing these creatures to life and giving them an updated look to them. The way that the monsters move and interact with one another, an example would be the three headed dragon named Ghidorah (each head has its own personality) Or seeing the fire bird Rodan take out a squadron of fighter jets, to Mothra emerging from a waterfall. The special effects are great.
A Better Soundtrack: I like it a lot more than 2014 Godzilla soundtrack. The Walking Dead composer (Bear McCreary) recreates the original Akira Ifukube and Yuji Koseki themes for Godzilla and Mothra, but he also puts his own twist to it. I couldn't help but grin when I heard the soundtrack.
More shots of Godzilla and more monster fights.
1: Nonsensical story and awful human characters:
I absolutely hated the human characters in this movie! To me, the human characters dragged the whole movie down Sure, the actors do a great job with their performance... But the characters are so poorly written and very few are interesting. If they are somewhat interesting they're either killed off or not given any depth to them. Or like most of them, They're just really dumb or unlikable. They don't act like real people they just seem like cartoon characters. it doesn't help the fact that 70 percent of the movie is spent on these characters just spouting off technobabble, boring information, weird jokes or morality preaching. I thought the humor was fine for the most part, (some of the jokes I thought was funny) but the problem is that they overdo it and use the humor in weird moments (like moments that are meant to be serious)
2: Not a very good sequel to the 2014 Godzilla movie:
If you watch both of these movies, it looks like two different films. Gareth Edward's 2014 Godzilla did a good job setting up its world as a more realistic take on Godzilla. King of The Monsters just feels like its own seperate movie. It doesn't build upon the last movie, it just puts you into a new story and doesn't give you any explinations or answers that it throws at you. All throughout the movie I was questioning what was happening.
When did all these monsters start appearing and where did they come from?
Why are the monsters suddenly called Titans and not MUTO?
Who are the eco-terroists and why do they want to awaken the monsters?
Why were nukes considered bad in the last film but now all of a sudden it's considered a good thing? None of it is ever explained. Instead, this movie reads like an episode of a cartoon show.
I personally don't like this movie upon second viewing of it. Sure, it's a pretty film to look at with it's special effects and music, but it lack any substance and depth to it, the human characters end up dragging the whole film down that I found myself losing interest in what was happening. The monster fights were entertaining, but that wasn't enough to save the film. Final thoughts... It's a good Godzilla movie, but it's a lackluster film in the long run. Rent it if you're interested, but I don't think there's a need to buy it.