Skull Island

The show has jokes, but only within the banter between characters. Considering the violence is treated with more savagery here than in the films it makes sense the characters might rely on some amount of levity to help themselves survive.

The animation is pretty standard, nothing flashy, but reminds me of the 90s stuff I grew up with like the '98 Godzilla series.

There are monsters aplenty, of all shapes and sizes, and lots of redshirts to give them something to chow down on. Kong is his own thing in this but holds the same fundamental traits we are used to. And thanks to the humour (which for me mostly lands) the human characters are entertaining too.

Recommended for fans of King Kong films in general.

Skull Island, an animated adventure with annoying characters and repetitive episodes. The story is very basic with our protagonists landing on Skull Island after their ship is destroyed by a giant sea monster. Cue the large monsters, which on the whole, look amazing. However, the whole thing is let down by silly characters, who are annoying to the point you want them to get eaten by one of these giant beasts.

Granted there's some good battle sequences, but the overal story is so tedious many will never make it to episode 8.

King Kong (1933) did this 90 years ago, and it's still better than this.

I have to say, Skull Island is a good show, especially towards the end. The fights are good and shocking sometimes. The monster designs, even Kong's, fit greatly with what we've seen in the monsterverse and "Kong: Skull Island." The main monster villian, which I won't spoil, has a cool design that shows us that it's menacing. Despite that, I do have complaints.

Most of the episodes in the first half, excluding the first episode, are just monster chase scenes. I wish there were more character focused moments in this, which developed them further. Due to most of the episodes being about monster fights, it feels like we don't know much about the characters, besides their basic personalities. However, it's fixed for the most part in episode 6, which is why it's one of my favorite episodes.

In conclusion, the series is good when it is. I hope there'll be more of this show, because it does end on a cliffhanger. Because of it's flaws, I'll give it a 7/10.

When I read all the reviews trashing this, I believed them. I almost didn't even get it. But then I thought: "How bad can it really be?" Turns out, it's not bad. The reviewers are just very wrong.

This site is just really beginning to be useless. They don't even allow most of my reviews. Then the reviews they allow, are largely wrong. Don't get me wrong, may are good. But, it's getting hard to know which reviews to believe.

Anyways, the show is about a group of people, who end up stranded on Skull Island. There are some crypto-zoologists, their family, a strange girl, and another group, of mercenaries. They must deal with the monstrous inhabitants, while seeking an escape from the island.

Story wise, I'd definitely rank this among the best King Kong stories I've ever seen. It does a good job of showing a bit about Kong's history. And the new characters, their story is good, with converging story lines.

I'm on episode 8 right now. So, not quite finished. It's been really nothing but great so far. So, it would take a really bad ending, to drop my rating from a 10. The action is great. The story is great. The monsters are great. I recommend it for anyone.

There's nothing offensive to children, or adults. I don't get the low ratings, at all. Give it a shot. The longer you watch it the better it gets.

I think this was a decent show and fit well into the monsterverse. I feel like it may mess up a few things with the pre-existing lore that has been established for skull island but at the end of the day what franchise hasn't done that before.

I feel the ending was a smart choice but it feels like they made this show on the knowledge that there would be a season 2. I fell the show also could have benefited from longer episodes, maybe extending them to half an hour would have been enough, just to make a few things a bit more clear

It's refreshing to take a step back from the massive 300 foot monster fights, even in a franchise where that's the reason we show up. I think the characters are well done and the way they show the monsters is so unique. I don't think the monsters have been this way since Kong: Skull Island which makes sense because that is the only movie (besides a few in Godzilla vs Kong) that has smaller monsters that actually would care for the human characters because to the bigger monsters like say Rodan why should he come down to eat a single human whereas for these monsters it makes sense.

All round this show is pretty good and if a season 2 is on the way I will definitely sit down and watch, and hopefully it explains that ending.