Godzilla vs. Kong

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Once scheduled for release on May 29, 2020, the film was then moved back to March 13, 2020, before being pushed back again to November 20th and finally May 21st, 2021. It was subsequently postponed until March 26th, 2021, before being released on March 31st, 2021, in American cinemas. The film was also available on HBO Max until April 30, 2021, simultaneously.

Legends clash in "Godzilla vs. Kong" as two legendary rivals engage in a dramatic fight for the destiny of the planet. Kong and his guards go on a risky trip in search of his rightful home, accompanied by Jia, a little orphaned girl with whom he has developed an extraordinary and intense attachment. However, they find themselves suddenly in the way of an infuriated Godzilla, who is wreaking havoc around the globe. The epic confrontation between the two titans, sparked by hidden powers, is merely the beginning of the mystery that lurks deep under the Earth's core.

When Jia comes to see Kong and offers him a toy, the Titan, realizing that he is stuck within the biodome, tosses a tree at it.

Meanwhile, Bernie Hayes, an employee of the Apex Cybernetics business and presenter of the Titan Truth Podcast, exfiltrates material indicating ominous activity at an Apex facility in Pensacola, but just as he finishes downloading the data, Godzilla appears and strikes unexpectedly. Bernie finds an odd piece of equipment like a huge robotic eye amid the facility's debris during Godzilla's assault.

After the assault, Godzilla was no longer considered as humanity's savior. Madison Russell, a teen who listens to Bernie's podcast, is anxious about the recent Godzilla assault at her school. When she attempts to reason with her widower father Mark (who is also the Monarch's director) about the source of Godzilla's rampage, he ignores everything she says, merely stating that animals, like humans, may evolve. Madison later enlists her closest friend Josh Valentine to assist her investigate Godzilla's rampage and uncover Apex's secrets.

Nathan travels to Skull Island and meets his colleague, Monarch anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother Ilene Andrews, with the idea of using Kong as their navigator to lead them to the energy source because Skull Island can no longer contain him and allow him to survive (because Kong has grown too large). Though Ilene first refuses, explaining that Godzilla would come for Kong as soon as he was transferred off Skull Island, she eventually agrees when Nathan convinces her that they must undertake this mission in order to end Godzilla's rampage and to find Kong a new home.

At this juncture, Jia detects Godzilla's presence via the ship's vibrations as the Titan approaches and strikes the soldiers, almost drowning Kong and the others on board. Fortunately, Nathan frees Kong by releasing his shackles, enabling him to fight Godzilla underwater long enough for him to swim to the surface and tip the barge back on its head, therefore rescuing the party from drowning. Kong rushes onto a neighboring aircraft copyright in order to confront Godzilla, who hops onboard to do battle with Kong. The two Titans trade vicious punches until Kong is able to shove Godzilla back into the water due to a distraction provided by fighter planes. Godzilla unleashes his atomic breath from under the copyright, but Kong leaps off to avoid the explosion, only for Godzilla to wrap his tail around Kong and pull him into the ocean's depths, aiming to drown the Titan.

However, when Godzilla is stunned by depth charges, the combat is split up, allowing Kong to surface for air and re-engage the fight.

Nathan has no option except to stop all of the ships' power in order to deceive Godzilla into thinking he has destroyed them and Kong has been defeated. After seeing the shattered fleet, he swims away, delighted with his win. The team chooses to fly Kong to an Antarctica entry point for the Hollow Earth, where Godzilla was first frozen, as they prepare to reactivate the ships. Kong is told that his home is beyond the door, but Jia refuses to step through it.

Knowing Kong won't survive in the cold and that they won't be able to return him to Skull Island, Nathan asks Ilene if Kong will go if he thinks there are others like him down there, and she tells Jia to ask Kong about his family, prompting the Titan to enter the tunnel and the teams to follow him in their HEAVs.

There, the three disembark and discover Apex's ultimate weapon "Mechagodzilla" a mechanized counterpart of Godzilla being controlled by the late Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's son and Walter's chief technology officer Ren Serizawa. To put Mechagodzilla's strength to the test against the Titans, Walter summons a huge adult Skullcrawler designated "Number 10" into the room as soon as the mecha is ignited. The beast is on the point of attacking Madison, Josh, and Bernie when it is captured and detained by Mechagodzilla, who cleaves the Skullcrawler in two with a tremendous red energy beam, enabling Madison, Josh, and Bernie to take refuge in a tiny hatch. However, the test is cut short as the mecha instantly turns down owing to power supply limits.

The plan of Walter to defeat Mechagodzilla by using the energy of the Hollow Earth is then revealed. After seeing that Mechagodzilla is the actual culprit, Madison understands that Apex is using Godzilla as a pawn to replace him and all of the Titans so that humans may take their rightful position as the planet's dominant race. While searching for a way out, Madison and the others stumble upon a room where Ren is controlling Mechagodzilla via radio waves using the severed head of Ghidorah, which has been turned into a biological supercomputer and cockpit by Apex after Alan Jonah acquired it because it had previously been bitten off by Godzilla during his battle with Ghidorah five years earlier.

The Hollow Earth has a biosphere comparable to Skull Island. Two Warbats attack them, one of which destroys one of the HEAVs while scouting the area. Kong rescues the group by killing the first Warbat and flinging its corpse onto the second, knocking it down, but it recovers and constricts itself around him, forcing him to collapse. Before smothering Kong, Nathan's team's HEAV assaulted the Warbat, enabling Kong to escape and pound the creature to death before eating its guts.

There, Godzilla enters the center of the city and, recognizing Kong's presence in the Hollow Earth, uses his atomic breath to bore a tunnel through the biosphere, collapsing the temple. Kong and Nathan's team fight off a flock of Hellhawks while Maia and her team attempt to flee in their HEAV, but Kong grabs it on their way out and, despite Maia's attempts to shoot him in order to escape, instantly crushes the aircraft in his hand after peeking inside to ensure Jia, Ilene, and Nathan are not inside, killing Maia and her personnel.

Walter orders Ren to send Mechagodzilla to Apex HQ to destroy Godzilla. Despite Ren's warnings not to use the new Hollow Earth energy source without testing, the mecha is activated. Bernie, Madison, and Josh are also apprehended by security guards and brought to Walter. While Walter denies stirring Godzilla's war and causing the whole situation, Madison accuses him of admitting responsibility for allowing mankind to face Godzilla and the Titans.

While Walter is being blindfolded, Mechagodzilla goes berserk, slaying Walter with a single sweep of its hand and electrocuting Ren simultaneously. Mechagodzilla, controlled by Ghidorah's mind and freed from the Apex facility under Victoria Peak Mountain, flees from Godzilla's reach. Before the two engage head-to-head, Mechagodzilla fires a rocket barrage at Godzilla.

Meanwhile, Josh and Bernie try to remotely deactivate the renegade robot, and Madison summons Mark for aid, while Godzilla and Mechagodzilla battle, with Godzilla getting the upper hand and burning Mechagodzilla. Jia observes Kong's pulse diminishing as the three approach him, while Mechagodzilla continues to batter Godzilla. They are unable to generate a large enough charge to restart Kong's heart, but Nathan recalls Maia's earlier remark about the HEAVs producing enough power to power Las Vegas for a week, so he flies the last HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and releasing a massive electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.

Kong watches Godzilla battle Mechagodzilla on his way to visit Jia. Kong first doubts Jia as he sees Godzilla smash Mechagodzilla, but Jia ultimately reveals that the robot is the "real" danger. Before joining the battle to help Godzilla with his dislocated leg, Kong accepts and puts his animosity aside.

The two Titans work together to stem the tide, but the robot proves to be more powerful than their combined force and defeats them. Kong reclaims his axe, which he had lost during his previous encounter with Godzilla, and strikes numerous hits on Mechagodzilla, but his weapon, having lost its charge, is worthless against the robot, which tries to kill Kong with its tail drill. All appears lost for Kong and Godzilla, while Bernie, recognizing he and the others have no choice but to drink, takes out a flask of bourbon and suggests they all have a drink. Josh, on the other hand, takes the flask from Bernie's grip and short-circuits Mechagodzilla's controls by dumping the contents of the drink all over the control panel, causing Mechagodzilla to halt for a brief while, allowing Godzilla and Kong to regroup and reclaim the upper hand.

After seeing Kong holding his axe, Godzilla charges it by blasting it with his atomic breath. This allows Kong to dismantle Mechagodzilla from head to toe and then sit down to relax after raising his trophy and letting out a great shout of victory.

Monarch has constructed an observation station in the Hollow Earth at some point in the future. Ilene, Nathan, and Jia are out on a morning stroll with Kong when they happen to see him pass by. After signing "home" to Jia, Kong leaps to the edge of a cliff, pounding his chest and roaring, proclaiming himself as the king of the Hollow Earth and joyfully accepting it as his new home and realm.

Following his unproduced script for the unmade 1994 feature, Terry Rossio's first Godzilla film is here.

Kyle Chandler has appeared in two King Kong films, the first of which being Peter Jackson's 2005 adaptation.

The sequence in which Kong slams his right shoulder against a building to reposition it (after it was dislocated previously) might be a nod to Martin Riggs' notorious ability in the Lethal Weapon series.

The film makes multiple allusions to NGE: