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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 more

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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...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. Extended edition.





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Review of King Kong (Deluxe Extended Edition) by afy9mab

Advantages: An old-fashioned epic that meshes great performances with cutting-edge technology
Disadvantages: It's very long

...on a T-Rex. Jackson is king of the bum-numbing running time and clocking in at over three hours Kong is a monster of a movie. Though you may shift in your seat as your buttocks take a nap, the film doesn't feel that long. Everything in it is there for a reason. It's over an hour before we get to the mysterious island, but that time is filled with establishing relationships and character development. There may be a few incidents that aren't strictly ... Read review

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Extra! Extra! Big ape falls for bird!
Review of King Kong (Deluxe Extended Edition) by david_1967

Advantages: Wonderful special effects and over six hours of extras
Disadvantages: Disc 1 probably obsolete apart from extras

...depicting the whole 'making of King Kong' thing and numerous conceptual designs. All in all the set has over SIX hours of bonus features. Considering the film lasts 3 hrs and 12 mins and has a commentary you are looking at over twelve hours of King Kong fun. Also, did you know that the insect scene was going to be in the original film but due to constraints was never included? Learn this and more! The acting in the film is not the greatest but ... Read review

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