The audience score, however, is a nearly perfect 93 percent, a full 39 percent higher than the critic score. Audience member A four-star review of the movie on Lettboxd demonstrates the very different perspective casual viewers bring to Godzilla x Kong, with Joel Hilke writing, “Taken as a film for intellectual film snobs, it’s trash. Taken as a film that inhabits exactly what the kid in me who raced home after school to watch Monster Week on local tv felt, it’s perfection.”
These quotes spell out the inherently different perspective on the movie that critics and fans bring to these movies. It’s not that casual fans don’t the flaws in the storytelling, it’s that they want the pure skeptical of CGI monsters fighting each other. While it’s a critic’s job to think deeply about storytelling choices, most movie-going audiences are just along for the ride for movies like Godzilla x Kong.
