How to Watch All the MonsterVerse Movies In Order

One might assume, given the consensus about the simplistic plots of movies with giant monsters smashing cities, that you don’t need a list of what order to watch all the MonsterVerse movies in. However, that’s not the case. Here’s how to watch all the MonsterVerse movies in order.

How to Watch the MonsterVerse Movies by Release Date

1. Godzilla (2014)
2. Kong: Skull Island (2017)
3. Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019)
4. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
5. Skull Island (2023)
6. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023)
7. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Your best bet for watching the series is probably by release date. This order is how the series planned for audiences to experience it in the first place, while the stories themselves jump around the MonsterVerse’s overarching timeline. While you can pretty much watch all the films on their own and still have fun, the way the universe has been built up is best experienced by watching everything in the order it was released. This order is key for also establishing recurring characters and their roles in multiple MonsterVerse projects as Titans surface around the Earth.

How to Watch the MonsterVerse Movies in Chronological Order

1. Kong: Skull Island (1973)
2. Skull Island (1990s)
3. Godzilla (2014)
4. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (1950s-1980s, 2015)
5. Godzilla: King of Monsters (2019)
6. Godzilla vs. Kong (2024)
7. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (TBD)

By the MonsterVerse’s second release, Kong: Skull Island, the shared cinematic universe was already playing with its own timeline by moving decades before the events of 2014’s Godzilla. The timeline became a bit more twisted with the introduction of the Skull Island series and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, with the latter series flitting at different points in the 20th century while maintaining a concurrent narrative in 2015. For those who want to experience the MonsterVerse saga as it unfolded chronologically, the list above lays out the shared timeline.

Note: Monarch: Legacy of Monsters takes place both in the 2010s and the mid-1900s but is listed as the former time period as its primary narrative takes place in the immediate aftermath of Godzilla.

And that’s how to watch the MonsterVerse movies in both release and chronological order. If you’re stumped on which to choose, we’d recommend going by release date, but it’s up to you.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire his theaters Mar. 29.

The above article was updated on 3/26/2024 by Sam Stone to clarify information about the MonsterVerse.