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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 3 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 28, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Black, Naomi Watts, Colin Hanks, Kyle Chandler & Adrien Brody | |
Performer: | Thomas Kretschmann & Andy Serkis | |
Directed by | Peter Jackson | |
Edited by | Jamie Selkirk & Jabez Olssen | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens & Fran Walsh | |
Composition by | James Newton Howard | |
Story by | Merian C. Cooper & Edgar Wallace | |
Produced by | Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson | |
Director of Photography: | Andrew Lesnie |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
The then unknown Jessica Lange plays the Fay Wray role with a valiant attempt at empathy, while Charles Grodin brings comic glee to the exploitative oilman. It's colourful, noisy and fun.
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Radio Times
[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
Faithful in substantial degree not only to the letter but also the spirit of the 1933 classic for RKO, this $22 million-plus version neatly balances superb special effects with solid dramatic credibility.
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Variety
What sort, exactly, is this movie?
New York Times
It's madness to try to remake a myth, but even so, John Guillermin's jokey, low-camp film seems awfully inadequate.
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Chicago Reader
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
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- [I]t has a marvelous fairy-tale kinetic grandeur....KING KONG attains a primal-pop romantic glory...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavory 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. KING KONG is his sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it is as big as the gorilla that runs riot through Jackson's rendering of Depression-era New York. Keeping the simple yet effective plot intact--a film crew travels to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up Kong, and brings him back to New York City--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.
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.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Classic
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Fantasy
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Science-Fiction
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Thriller
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Jungle
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Dinosaurs
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Sci-Fi / Horror / Fantasy
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Remake
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New York City
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1930s
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Adventurers
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Based On A Novel
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