Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT I've watched Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and it makes me confident that this upcoming live-action reboot of a classic 1980s cartoon will be good. As a fan of cartoons from the 1980s, I have been burned over and over again when it comes to bad live-action remakes, with many of them not able to capture the tone of the originals.
Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire didn't pretend to be anything that they weren't, with them dropping all of the baggage of the previous MonsterVerse films and leaning into the wacky fun that viewers are there for. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was all about showing off massive monster action, with the film's tone and sense of humor allowing it to fully focus on the antics of Godzilla and Kong.
The tone of the original ThunderCats series is a hard one to balance, as it feels as if the show takes itself seriously, but nobody outside the show takes itself seriously. Much like many of the other action cartoons of the 1980s, the creators knew that they were making something silly, but they treated it seriously, giving it the campy tone that it is known for.