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| Plot Summary Carl Denham (Black) needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow (Watts). No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now ...( show more  ) |
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| Directed By Peter Jackson | Produced By Carolynne Cunningham Eileen Moran Peter Jackson Fran Walsh Philippa Boyens Jan Blenkin Annette Wullems | |
| Runtime 187 min |
Language/Color English / C |
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| Release Year 2005 |
Genre Adventure,Drama,Romance |
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Review from ./hoopla.nu
Okay so here we go with Peter Jackson's first film since the Lord of the Rings phenomenon. King Kong has a much less distinguished pedigree than that extraordinary trilogy, and it probably pays to keep this in mind. Once things get going, however, it's one helluva rollercoaster ride. Spielberg's big action work seems rather meek and unassuming by comparison, but his is probably the more effective. Kong feels rather unbalanced, with huge chunks of action pieces clumped together, making the calmer moments all the more mundane. Unfortunately one of the first things that struck me was the special effects - in...more
Okay so here we go with Peter Jackson's first film since the Lord of the Rings phenomenon. King Kong has a much less distinguished pedigree than that extraordinary trilogy, and it probably pays to keep this in mind. Once things get going, however, it's one helluva rollercoaster ride. Spielberg's big action work seems rather meek and unassuming by comparison, but his is probably the more effective. Kong feels rather unbalanced, with huge chunks of action pieces clumped together, making the calmer moments all the more mundane. Unfortunately one of the first things that struck me was the special effects - in...more
Review from imdb
Truly A Masterpiece!
Truly A Masterpiece!
Let me just say that with all of the remakes that have been coming out, King Kong may have been the most deserving and the most in need of being remade. I could not think of a better director for this type of film than Peter Jackson.
King Kong stays pretty true to the original. Naomi Watts plays Fay Wray's Ann Darrow perfectly. Right down to her emotional connection with Kong, which is helped by the fact that Kong is pretty darn lovable when he is not ripping apart dinosaurs.
Adrien Brody plays a great Jack Driscoll...more
Review from christiananswers.net
ChristianSpotlight.com — See home page for links to our index pages. Searching for answers? 3 hr. “The world’s largest and most elaborate dinosaur site†where you’ll discover a mountain of knowledge and amazing discoveries. How do dinosaurs fit into the Bible? You’ll find the answer to this and many more of your questions. Play games, browse and learn. eter Jackson’s King Kong is big-budget, blow-your-mind, blockbuster-style Hollywood entertainment at its best! No one makes movies that even approach his level of vision, style, and inventiveness. When Jackson announced, following his success with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, that he...more
ChristianSpotlight.com — See home page for links to our index pages. Searching for answers? 3 hr. “The world’s largest and most elaborate dinosaur site†where you’ll discover a mountain of knowledge and amazing discoveries. How do dinosaurs fit into the Bible? You’ll find the answer to this and many more of your questions. Play games, browse and learn. eter Jackson’s King Kong is big-budget, blow-your-mind, blockbuster-style Hollywood entertainment at its best! No one makes movies that even approach his level of vision, style, and inventiveness. When Jackson announced, following his success with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, that he...more
Review from filmblather.com
Starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Adrien Brody, Kyle Chandler, Thomas Kretschmann. Directed by Peter Jackson. Rated PG-13. It is almost hard to know how to react to King Kong. My immediate physical response went beyond astonishment and into confusion. When I call the film "astonishing," I mean that quite literally. Watching King Kong roughly approximates what I imagine would be the sensation of actually seeing a 25-foot ape battle dinosaurs and ravage the streets of New York City. I say that not because the movie "makes you feel like you're there," or anything silly like that;...more
Starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Adrien Brody, Kyle Chandler, Thomas Kretschmann. Directed by Peter Jackson. Rated PG-13. It is almost hard to know how to react to King Kong. My immediate physical response went beyond astonishment and into confusion. When I call the film "astonishing," I mean that quite literally. Watching King Kong roughly approximates what I imagine would be the sensation of actually seeing a 25-foot ape battle dinosaurs and ravage the streets of New York City. I say that not because the movie "makes you feel like you're there," or anything silly like that;...more
Review from filmjerk.com
Out to satisfy his childhood thirst to remake �King Kong,� Peter Jackson has gone overboard, creating an obnoxious visual slapfight, and one of the biggest disappointments of the year. Filmmaker Carl Denham (a miscast Jack Black) has found himself in a lot of hot water with his studio and business associates. Looking to complete his jungle epic, Carl recruits a starving actress, Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), and a slumming playwright (Adrien Brody) to board the Venture, a steam ship headed to the mysterious Skull Island. Upon arrival, Carl believes he�s found his perfect location, but the natives have other plans, and...more
Out to satisfy his childhood thirst to remake �King Kong,� Peter Jackson has gone overboard, creating an obnoxious visual slapfight, and one of the biggest disappointments of the year. Filmmaker Carl Denham (a miscast Jack Black) has found himself in a lot of hot water with his studio and business associates. Looking to complete his jungle epic, Carl recruits a starving actress, Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), and a slumming playwright (Adrien Brody) to board the Venture, a steam ship headed to the mysterious Skull Island. Upon arrival, Carl believes he�s found his perfect location, but the natives have other plans, and...more
Review from filmjerk.com
It comes with great sadness to report that Peter Jackson�s remake of �King Kong� is a lumbering, lugubrious and incoherent mess, clearly too much in awe of its source material. Jackson spent three hundred million making the three �Lord of the Rings� films, and audiences worldwide were overwhelmed by their epic scope. Here, Jackson has more than two hundred million to make a single film, and as they say, it is all up on the screen: the sets for Skull Island and New York City are grand and grandly intricate, reveling in their exacting detail; the leads and the thousands of...more
It comes with great sadness to report that Peter Jackson�s remake of �King Kong� is a lumbering, lugubrious and incoherent mess, clearly too much in awe of its source material. Jackson spent three hundred million making the three �Lord of the Rings� films, and audiences worldwide were overwhelmed by their epic scope. Here, Jackson has more than two hundred million to make a single film, and as they say, it is all up on the screen: the sets for Skull Island and New York City are grand and grandly intricate, reveling in their exacting detail; the leads and the thousands of...more
Review from filmjerk.com
Once in awhile a film comes along that reminds us why we even bother going to the theater. Given the advanced technology in home entertainment systems these days, it�s often better to avoid the ticket prices and crowds and wait for the DVD. Not this time, people. Forget the cheesy trailers, the huge budget, and the hype. The story is set in New York City in the 1930�s, where we meet struggling Vaudeville performer Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), starving for her first big break. She finds it with sleazily charismatic movie producer, Carl Denham (Jack Black) who, having just lost...more
Once in awhile a film comes along that reminds us why we even bother going to the theater. Given the advanced technology in home entertainment systems these days, it�s often better to avoid the ticket prices and crowds and wait for the DVD. Not this time, people. Forget the cheesy trailers, the huge budget, and the hype. The story is set in New York City in the 1930�s, where we meet struggling Vaudeville performer Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), starving for her first big break. She finds it with sleazily charismatic movie producer, Carl Denham (Jack Black) who, having just lost...more
Review from matchflick.com
cannot believe that I missed this movie on the big screen. I finally got to see it and I was wowed by the sound, the special effects, and the art of this film. It would have been something to see at the theater. Peter Jackson's direction was incredible, and I cannot say enough about the acting of Naomi Watts. The film is set in 1933, with overly ambitious, sleazy director Carl Denham (Jack Black), who runs into the depression laden young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) from the world of vaudeville. The brilliant mind that brought us...more
cannot believe that I missed this movie on the big screen. I finally got to see it and I was wowed by the sound, the special effects, and the art of this film. It would have been something to see at the theater. Peter Jackson's direction was incredible, and I cannot say enough about the acting of Naomi Watts. The film is set in 1933, with overly ambitious, sleazy director Carl Denham (Jack Black), who runs into the depression laden young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) from the world of vaudeville. The brilliant mind that brought us...more
Review from ./moviemaze.de
14. 13. In den 30er Jahren begibt sich eine Gruppe von Entdeckern und Dokumentarfilmern auf die mysteriöse Skull Island bei Sumatra, wo der Legende nach ein riesiger Gorilla leben soll. Zu ihrer großen Überraschung finden sie neben King Kong auch noch zahlreiche Dinosaurier und anderes Urgetier auf der Insel vor. Peter Jacksons Neuverfilmung des Klassikers von 1933 ist eines der Highlights des Jahres 2005. Das mit viel Liebe zum Detail inszenierte Werk glänzt durch eine leidenschaftlich erzählte und rührende Geschichte sowie durch Spezialeffekte aller erster Güte. Nach dem überwältigenden Erfolg seiner Der Herr der Ringe Trilogie hätte man Peter Jackson...more
14. 13. In den 30er Jahren begibt sich eine Gruppe von Entdeckern und Dokumentarfilmern auf die mysteriöse Skull Island bei Sumatra, wo der Legende nach ein riesiger Gorilla leben soll. Zu ihrer großen Überraschung finden sie neben King Kong auch noch zahlreiche Dinosaurier und anderes Urgetier auf der Insel vor. Peter Jacksons Neuverfilmung des Klassikers von 1933 ist eines der Highlights des Jahres 2005. Das mit viel Liebe zum Detail inszenierte Werk glänzt durch eine leidenschaftlich erzählte und rührende Geschichte sowie durch Spezialeffekte aller erster Güte. Nach dem überwältigenden Erfolg seiner Der Herr der Ringe Trilogie hätte man Peter Jackson...more
Review from ./reel.com
A documentary film crew and a group of explorers travel to Skull Island in search of a mythic monster, King Kong. When they find the beast, he's monkeying around in an untouched-by-humans oasis where he lives in almost constant battle with the last prehistoric creatures on Earth. His temper is fierce, but his rage is eventually allayed by the sight of the beautiful Ann Darrow. As in the original, the 25-foot gorilla is brought to America and put on display for public viewing, but only until (spoiler—not!) Peter Jackson's unabashed love for cinema infuses every spectacular frame of King Kong, an...more
A documentary film crew and a group of explorers travel to Skull Island in search of a mythic monster, King Kong. When they find the beast, he's monkeying around in an untouched-by-humans oasis where he lives in almost constant battle with the last prehistoric creatures on Earth. His temper is fierce, but his rage is eventually allayed by the sight of the beautiful Ann Darrow. As in the original, the 25-foot gorilla is brought to America and put on display for public viewing, but only until (spoiler—not!) Peter Jackson's unabashed love for cinema infuses every spectacular frame of King Kong, an...more
Review from rollingstone.com
Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year. Peter Jackson follows up his Lord of the Rings trifecta with a stupendously entertaining redo of the 1933 classic that made him want to make movies. The director may be working off a borrowed dream, but he utilizes every technical advance of the last seventy-two years to reimagine the 100-minute black-and-white original as a three-hour explosion of color and FX miracles. What you see will spin your head six ways from Sunday. I've heard gripes from jolt junkies about the hour it takes for the tall, dark...more
Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we've been waiting for all year. Peter Jackson follows up his Lord of the Rings trifecta with a stupendously entertaining redo of the 1933 classic that made him want to make movies. The director may be working off a borrowed dream, but he utilizes every technical advance of the last seventy-two years to reimagine the 100-minute black-and-white original as a three-hour explosion of color and FX miracles. What you see will spin your head six ways from Sunday. I've heard gripes from jolt junkies about the hour it takes for the tall, dark...more
Review from themovieboy.com
With his auspicious, hugely popular "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy complete, all eyes are on director Peter Jackson to see if he can make a successful follow-up picture. The answer is yes and no, with an overall emphasis on the former. Jackson's "King Kong," the third film version of the classic tale of a giant ape and the woman he falls in love with (the other two were released in 1933 and 1976), is a state-of-the-art visual and technological triumph, awe-inspiring on several occasions and never short of picturesque. The action set-pieces are outstanding when they come, but are...more
With his auspicious, hugely popular "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy complete, all eyes are on director Peter Jackson to see if he can make a successful follow-up picture. The answer is yes and no, with an overall emphasis on the former. Jackson's "King Kong," the third film version of the classic tale of a giant ape and the woman he falls in love with (the other two were released in 1933 and 1976), is a state-of-the-art visual and technological triumph, awe-inspiring on several occasions and never short of picturesque. The action set-pieces are outstanding when they come, but are...more
Review from ./urbancinefile.com.au
The impact of Peter Jackson's King Kong is as massive as the gigantic gorilla itself, a spectacle to marvel at, but most importantly, a story with which we can connect emotionally. Set on a grand scale with extraordinary visuals and fantasy elements, the film's core sentiments about love, loyalty and betrayal remain simple. It could be said that Peter Jackson has been working on King Kong for the past 32 years, ever since as a 12 year old, he started working on his own low-tech version featuring a hand-painted bedsheet and a stop-motion gorilla figurine covered with fur from his mother's...more
The impact of Peter Jackson's King Kong is as massive as the gigantic gorilla itself, a spectacle to marvel at, but most importantly, a story with which we can connect emotionally. Set on a grand scale with extraordinary visuals and fantasy elements, the film's core sentiments about love, loyalty and betrayal remain simple. It could be said that Peter Jackson has been working on King Kong for the past 32 years, ever since as a 12 year old, he started working on his own low-tech version featuring a hand-painted bedsheet and a stop-motion gorilla figurine covered with fur from his mother's...more
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