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| Director
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Peter Jackson
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| Starring
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Naomi Watts, Jack Black,
Adrien Brody |
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| The plot of
King Kong |
A filmmaking crew searches for a mythic monster
on a far-away island. |
King Kong
Review
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Review by Todd
McCarthy:
It's the Return of the
King all over again, and he's got a dazzling Queen.
Almost too much of a good thing, Peter Jackson's remake
of the film that made him want to make movies is a super-sized
version of a yarn that was big to begin with, a stupendous
adventure that maximizes, and sometimes oversells, its
dazzling wares; but, no matter how spectacular the action,
"King Kong" is never more captivating than
when the giant ape and his blond captive are looking
into each others' eyes. Universal and Jackson's B.O.
haul in all markets is destined to be huge -- "Rings"
or even "Titanic" huge.Merian C. Cooper and
Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 "Kong" was one
of the sensations of its era, and Willis O'Brien's stop-motion
special effects set a standard that went unsurpassed
for decades. The 1976 Dino De Laurentiis remake wasn't
as bad as its current reputation would have it, although
the pic never took hold of the public imagination as
the first one did and this one is likely to..more..
Review By Matt
Adcock:
"And lo, the beast
looked upon the face of beauty. And from that day, he
was as one dead..."
And lo, after three hours of awesome, jaw dropping monkey
madness, I have to tell you, I was still hungry for
more. Yes, prepare yourselves because things are going
to get seriously hairy in a cinema near you this week!
You may not be surprised that Peter ‘Lord of the
Rings’ Jackson’s new version of the classic
monster movie King Kong looks the business. Kong himself
is excellent, pushing the CGI effects envelope to a
new level and bringing real character and heart to the
screen thanks in no small part to the work done by Andy
Serkis. After spending months studying real gorillas,
he was motion captured by computer in a similar way
to how he ‘acted’ the part of Gollum in
Lord of the Rings, and it works a treat.
Everything on offer here is pure quality, Naomi Watts
is absolutely ravishing as the blonde who steals the
heart of the great hairy backed beast (no, I didn’t
mean Peter Jackson but then he did seem quite taken
with her when I met them both at the London press conference
last week). Actually, the cast as whole work well, and
Jack Black proves that he can deliver more than just
laughs as the slimy but intrepid filmmaker Carl Denham..More..
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