Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire fully leans into the silliness but becomes a surprisingly dry affair whenever the two titular titans aren’t on screen.

10 years after Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla kickstarted Hollywood’s answer to decades of Japanese cult classics starring the iconic giant reptile, the Legendary ‘Monsterverse’ is beginning to buckle under its own weight.

Featuring a bevy of forgettable human characters, including Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry returning from 2021’s…