Godzilla vs. Kong

I have been uncharacteristically excited for Godzilla vs. Kong (I like action movies as much as the next person but, for some reason, I have have been obsessively anticipating this for months) and I had the chance to see it last night with my nephew Sean.  We both had an absolute blast watching it on an IMAX screen with Dolby Atmos sound!  Sean knows a lot more about the mythology of these creatures (my knowledge is limited to what was portrayed in Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters) so I think he enjoyed it even more than I did!  After Godzilla inexplicably attacks the Apex Cybernetics Headquarters, CEO Walter Simmons (Demian Bichir) requests the help of Nathan Lind (Alexander Skarsgard), a Hollow Earth (the homeworld of the Titans) specialist, to lead a dangerous expedition there to locate a power source to use against Godzilla.  Lind believes that Kong can lead them to the power source so he enlists the help of Ilene Andrews (Rebecca Hall), a scientist who has studied Kong for years, and Jia (Kaylee Hottle), an Iwi native from Skull Island who has formed a bond with him, to get Kong to Hollow Earth.  Meanwhile, Madison Russell (Millie Bobby Brown) believes that Godzilla's attack was provoked and, when her father, Monarch scientist Mark Russell (Kyle Chandler), doesn't believe her, she joins with her friend Josh (Julian Dennison) and Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry), a Titan conspiracy theory podcaster, to infiltrate Apex Headquarters.  They discover a threat even more dangerous than the Titans.  The story is incredibly convoluted and the human characters pale in comparison to the monsters (although I did enjoy the fact that both Kong and Godzilla have someone young trying to vindicate them to the world) but that hardly matters because the battles between the two Titans are exhilarating.  The images on the screen are absolutely epic, especially when Kong and Godzilla team up to defeat another monster, and both Sean and I loved the use of neon as the monsters fight in the streets of Hong Kong!  The creature design for the monsters is absolutely brilliant, particularly Godzilla's dorsal plates and Kong's fur, but I also found the monsters (one in particular) to be incredibly sympathetic.  The ending is satisfying (to me but not to Sean) while still leaving an opening for more movies in the MonsterVerse.  I had so much fun watching this with Sean (at one point we turned to each other with huge grins on our faces) and I highly recommend it to fans of action movies!