We all get to ride that ship to Skull Island and find out how dark and horrifying things get (or don’t get) when the movie opens in March.
You certainly can have a monster movie with lots of humor and lightness, as Jurassic World proved, but the question is how light you want that tone to get.
Some were disappointed that Jurassic World tended toward the schlocky and arguably wasn’t as intense as earlier Jurassic Park movies, while others (many others, judging by the movie’s box office) were more-than-happy to be treated to a relatively non-terrifying dino-experience.
Thanks to this week’s big toy reveal we have a better sense of what Skull Island will look like, especially the monsters that live there, but we still don’t know what kind of overall tone the movie will have. The first trailer certainly made it seem like Skull Island will be mostly a dark, scary affair, but then the second trailer came along and suggested maybe the tone isn’t so relentlessly heavy after all.