Production Year: 2005 - Action/Adventure - Director: Peter Jackson - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Andy Serkis, Thomas Kretschmann, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts
KING KONG is director Peter Jackson's sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it sees a film crew travel to the... more
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Action/Adventure - Director: Peter Jackson - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Andy Serkis
Production Year: 2000 - Action/Adventure - Director: Joseph McGinty - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Kelly Lynch, Tim Curry, Sam Rockwell, Crispin Glover
Actor(s): Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Colin Hanks, Kyle Chandler, Thomas Kretschmann, Andy Serkis
Director(s): Peter Jackson
Genre: Action & Adventure
Classification: 12 years and over
Production Year: 2005
Video Category: Feature Film
Country Of Origin: United States of America
Plot: A film crew travels to the mysterious Skull Island, find a giant gorilla named King Kong, and bring him back to 1930s New York City.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Languages
Main Language: English
Dubbed Language: Russian
Subtitle Language: Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Hearing Impaired Language: English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 English Russian
Award information
BAFTA: Best Achievement In Special Effects 2005 (Brian Van't Hul, Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers)
OSCAR: Best Visual Effects 2005 (Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hul)
Professional reviews
Review: A witty comment on the darkness at the heart of adventure stories, a bazillion-dollar spectacle that reserves the right to question the morality of spectacles, and, mostly, a tender love story about a melancholy girl and her tragically misunderstood monkey (Los Angeles Times, )
Jackson succeeds through a combination of modesty and reckless glee, topping himself at every turn and reveling in his own showmanship (New York Times, )
Once in the lost world, Jackson reproduces the breathless pacing of the 1933 film, tipping from one huge set-piece to the next (Sight And Sound, )
DVD Description
KING KONG is director Peter Jackson's sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it sees a film crew travel to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up giant gorilla King Kong, and bring him back to 1930s New York City. Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavoury side of life, Peter Jackson has turned into an event filmmaker someone who can conjure up a movie on a scale unlike anything we've seen before. Jackson expands on this basic premise by drawing on the jaw-dropping talents of his special effects team to satisfy his thirst for the grand spectacle. The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham, a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll, a hack playwright who battles Kong both physically and for Darrow's heart. As the men struggle against Kong and the lumbering dinosaurs of Skull Island, Andy Serkis, who made the character of Gollum so believable in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, steps in to form the facial features of the mighty gorilla, lending a real emotional sucker-punch to the scenes between Darrow and Kong. But it's the final third of the movie where Jackson really delivers; his 1930s New York is stunning, and when Kong breaks free from his shackles and stampedes on a lovelorn trek through the city, then iconically climbs the Empire State Building with his sweetheart, it's impossible to not be swept away by the sheer beauty and sadness of the moment. While its three-hour length may prove daunting to some, the payoff in Jackson's KING KONG is ultimately worth it, proving once again that he is a director of breathtaking vision.
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King Kong Review ofKingKong (Special Edition)by
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Advantages: Great Film Disadvantages: None really
...Director: Merian C Cooper, Ernest B Schoedsack
Writer: James A Creelman, Ruth Rose
Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot
Length: 104 minutes
There is Two-Disc Special Edition:-
Contents of DVD1 include:
The newly restored and digitally remastered original 1933 film.
Optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish
The documentary: I'm Kong: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper 2005
Commentaries by stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston, Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Ruth Rose, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
Merian C. Cooper Movies Trailer Gallery
Contents of DVD2 include:
RKO Production 601: The Making of Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World: Multi Part Documentary containing:-
The Origins of "KingKong"
Willis O'Brien and "Creation"
Cameras Roll on Kong, The Eighth Wonder
A Milestone in Visual Effects...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful
Advantages: Fantastic action scenes and special effects Disadvantages: Some missing bits
...“KingKong” is a great DVD, aimed at all ages 12 and over. It is an amazing film to watch for anyone who watches it, but can be scary at moments. There are lots of scenes in KingKong that can be funny and hilarious (seeing KingKong, the giant ape, jumping through the sky, demolishing everything in its way,) but at the same time it also achieves terrible horror, seeing KingKong destroying and rampaging through towns and streets, destroying everything and anything. It never gets boring—Kong’s dramatic style and episodes makes every part of the film intriguing and exciting.
Kong is a huge giant ape. He rampages through cities destroying everything in his path. He is very tall, wide and looks menacing. He wipes the tops off houses and brings aeroplanes down to the ground in anger. He is a man-eating beast, making the movie what it is...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful
Advantages: Another Toho movie on dvd Disadvantages: No bonus features
...Takarada
U.S. Screenplay by William J. Keenan
US Producer Arthur Rankin Jr
Production Toho Co LTD.
Soundtrack The Late AKIRA IFUKUBE
Features
English Mono
Subtitles none
Color
Run time 1hr 32 mins
Contains mild violence.
Overall this is a priceless DVD to add to your collection provided that you are into any of the following .........................
sci-fi
comedy
Dai Kaiju (Japanese for big monster)
Akira Ifukube
Godzilla
Toho studios
KingKong
Robots
I myself love this movie for a few reasons.....................
I am a big Akira Ifukube music fan
I am a big fan of the TOHO GODZILLA movies
I am also a big Dai Kaiju fan as well
I had all the 8 inch Bandai Dai Kaiju Godzilla
vinyl figures from 1992 - 1995
Sadly my house was broken into back in 1995 and
everything was stolen & can't be replaced....
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helpful 29.04.2008
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