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Rating:  -
Great special effects but most big movies do these days. Nothing special about the story and there's really nothing to recommend it over the original but it is a good evening's entertainment.
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Merian Cooper directed the original 1933 King Kong, and if he were alive to see Peter Jackson's version, I guarantee he'd say:
"Boy do I wish we could have done it this way."
Interestingly tho, the idea of Ann Darrow eventually warming to and becoming attached to Kong seems to be a creation of the 1976 version. I've watched the original many times, and although there is an obvious obsession in Kong for Ann Darrow, it appears to be one way. Everyone in the original seems to pretty much regard Kong as a monster to be feared, battled, or exploited. In the 30s, and long afterward, sentiment towards the preservation of irreplaceable creatures had not developed much, if at all.
In Jackson's version, I highly enjoyed the relaxed intro in New York. I was dazzled by every sequence on the island, and felt the full effect of the emotional hammer he brought down on us for the ending sequences.
This movie is absolutely true to the spirit of the original, showing an unusual reverence in a remake for its predecessor. If you liked the original Kong, and especially if you first saw it as a child, you will love this one.
There is no need to over analyze this movie. It was not made for depth of art, altho that is not ignored in the film. It was made as a flat out "watch me and enjoy", with a bit of "try to keep your jaw up" thrown in.
Just as an afterthought, to dispute a few other posts I have read, Jack Black was great in this film, and COMPLETELY on top of his role. Altho the character itself is undeniably shallow, Black's depth of performance is far superior to either Robert Armstrong in the original, or Charles Grodin's in the '76 release.
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...for my mother actually.
And the more you watch it the less it dazzles you. King Kong was a great character: He was humorous, smart, silly, and very caring.
As far as the story goes though, King Kong loved the dame in this and fell in love with picking her up after a fall to knock her down over and over again. That was the funniest part in the movie! :^)
The actors did a fairly decent job of bringing the characters to live and the action kept you glued but you won't wanna watch this one over and over again.
The action is mostly in the jungle where all of these sick creatures live and call it home.
Cover Art: B-
Story: C+
Dialogue: C+
Characters: B-
Length: C-
Overall: C
Rating: -
I bought this edition only for the gift, and I was really really satisfied with this edition the art of King Kong on the top of the Empire State building is awesome.
About the movie only in the first disc I appreciate the extended edition movie, it was a great effects with more creatures on the island, but nothing relevant to the story.
Rating:  -
Okay, the film is not absolutely terrible. The basic story is intact, and there's lots of color and action. Great. But owning it on DVD, repeat viewings for me are going to be few and far between.
First, there's a lot of character development and backdrop that goes nowhere. The movie takes forever to get going, but you're thinking there must be a reason for all this character introduction. Well, there isn't really. It goes nowhere and is completely superfluous. Beyond that, Anne's affection for the ape is nonsensical. I think maybe its a veiled attempt to project some late 20th-century environmental/animal protection sensibilities into an era where they make no sense, or perhaps the writers didn't even realize they were doing it. The 1930s probably had much the same exploitive attitudes as the Victorian era. The movie also had a darker more foreboding atmosphere than the original, which eventually seemed pointless and gave way to the cartoony NY scenes at the end. Maybe it was also related to the weak and undeveloped morality-play aspect of the film. In the middle of all this, Jack Black sticks out like a sore thumb. I think he was meant to pull off the reassuring confidence of the original Denham character, since he's certainly not a dramatic character, but he falls short and just seems comical where its inappropriate.
And CG in general is really tired and is a big turnoff to me. I almost loathe it. In this particular movie some CG was okay, and a lot was borderline to just plain bad, which was surprising. I find older movies that predate CG to be more enjoyable to watch often times, not because the effects are more believable (although in a sense they are because you know you're still seeing a real "thing" on screen), but because they had to be more creative and work within limitations and were also more constrained to simpler "within-the-realm-of-possibilities" type scenes. Now instead you get some fat nerd on a workstation somewhere going berserk with the unlimited use of models and crashing and explosions and noise and digitally-created indistinct "crap" flying everywhere in some scenes. Gimme O'Brian, Harryhausen, and even Lucas' 70s puppets any day. I hate watching a CG action scene where you can't keep track of what's going on because its just tons of flip-flopping stuff flying and crashing everywhere action. To be asked to believe the absurd aerial acrobatics the characters are routinely flung through like rag dolls, escaping unscathed, begs incredulity. A more recent example is the disorienting urban fight scene in Transformers, an otherwise superior movie. Get real. Note to Hollywood: less is more. Concentrate on story and characters (and have a point to each), use limited effects to enhance -- not bowl over. But given that those of non-discriminating tastes eat this stuff up, I don't expect any changes any time soon.
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