Skull Island

Filled with huge tentacled beasts in the sea and monster-sized land creatures on the infamous home of King Kong, “Skull Island” makes you feel like a kid who just discovered the best comic book ever.

King Kong meets Jonny Quest in Netflix’s Skull Island, an animated MonsterVerse series without any original ideas.

It’s going to be a reluctant STREAM IT from us. The series has a lot left to accomplish to roll the tide, but if Netflix invests time in the show to establish the characters and build on the storyline, it can easily build towards something bigger and scarier, and less mismatched.

“Skull Island” charitably offers a streaming distraction to tide fans over until then, albeit with a series that has the Eighth Wonder of the World in its corner and merely leaves one wondering what they were thinking.

Skull Island seems to attempt a formula similar to Jurassic Park's Camp Cretaceous in its animated spin-off, but it falls short in terms of animation quality and narrative refinement. Only a handful of episodes manage to captivate, while the rest unfold as unremarkable and routine storytelling.