King Kong

2005 "The eighth wonder of the world."
7.2| 3h7m| PG-13| en
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In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

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Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Kenyae Kofi First of all this movie was longer than both Harry Potter first movies. Some of the acting was great in this movie, but I did not like the whole savages on Skull Island were people of black/African culture that really brought the movie down for me. There were scenes in this movie where slow motion was not at all necessary. When I saw this movie I was hoping for a really good action packed, full of destruction field, but it was just boring. I did like the fight scene of the T-Rex and King Kong so I won't bash that too much, but seriously so much more could have been done with this movie.
gullwing592003 I saw this remake in 2006 in England & it pays homage by tipping it's hat to the 1933 original even recreating some of the scenes of the original. Such as the natives ritual dance & it's entertaining but the film is overloaded with too much modern embellishments & overdone & overblown special effects which are unnecessary & stupid . I wish modern hollywood would just leave the golden age alone & stop remaking the classics. Once it's been done it's been done so turn the page. How can you top the 1933 original ? The original was a huge enormous box office smash in 1933 & talkies were still new & the horror monster movies were a new experience for audiences. They had never seen anything like it before. The great depression really triggered & inspired hollywood filmmakers. At a time when movies were at their most creative & innovative & groundbreaking. The original is still the enduring classic that I can always watch & comeback to. But this remake is good to see one time & then you forget it & it'll never be a classic & stand up to the 1933 original. When I saw this remake it only made me want to see the original again so it helps & keeps the original a memorable classic. The original is the only one you need to see it'll never be surpassed.
Pjtaylor-96-138044 The Kong stuff is convincing thanks to some excellently emotive motion-capture work and there are a number of stand-out sequences that are genuinely entertaining and well crafted to boot, but unfortunately this three-hour piece is so poorly paced and disjointed that it not only feels like three separate movies but also becomes bizarrely boring even during some of the supposedly more exciting scenes. The dialogue is also decidedly clunky at times and the green-screen work is so inconsistent that it sometimes seems as though the actors are still standing in that emerald room and staring blankly at a wall despite the spectacle around them. Ultimately, the relatively impressive visuals can't stop the fairly silly and sadly monotonous story from wearing thin. In the end, it was pacing that killed the beast. 5/10
rscott25 I am sure, there are a few jumping the shark moments ...Personally, I loved the movie. It was much better then the 1970s one. I totally recommend to any film buff. Stands much higher then the rest of the genre. Those that gave bad reviews...well, get a life as a producer. Good popcorn movie.SPOILERS ALERTbrontosaurus run , movie star vine roping in with machine gun to save the day.