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King Kong Reviews
It clocks in at over three hours, but Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic is gripping nonetheless.
| May 29, 2011
Kong is a showy, state-of-the-art popcorn movie, faithful to the spirit of the 1933 original but generously adrenalized with the best effects money can buy.
| Nov 1, 2007
Despite admirable chest thumping and Watts' wonderfully enhanced scream, there is still only one true king.
| Sep 28, 2006
As for Kong himself, although the computer has played a large part in his creation, he could never be considered as anything less than real.
| Jul 1, 2006
What could have been Jackson's folly is a triumph, the kind of romantic action spectacle that makes the big screen silver and provides box-office gold. Puts the prime in primate.
| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 1, 2006
The interplay between Watts' melancholy blond and the great ape is almost too real to be believed. It's touching and heartfelt in a way even modernistic, non-effects-driven films can't manage.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2005
Our response to the ape's doom, once touched by authentic tragedy, is now marked by relief that this wretchedly excessive movie is finally over.
| Dec 16, 2005
Packed with enough edge-of-your-seat/did-I-just-see-that/goose-bumpy popcorn pleasure for a year's worth of blockbusters.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 15, 2005
Somehow Jackson's overflowing passion for his favorite film has translated into the most rigorously entertaining and rousing adventure of the entire year.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2005
Jackson took a huge risk with King Kong. But the movie that no film lover wanted him to make is sure to become the blockbuster that everyone is going to want to see, and with good reason.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 14, 2005
One hundred eighty-seven minutes of mesmerization, astonishment, thrills, chills, spills, kills and ills, Peter Jackson's big monkey picture show is certainly the best popular entertainment of the year.
| Dec 14, 2005
The unrelenting computer-animated action suffocates what seems to have been the movie's main purpose, to expand on the Kong-Ann relationship.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 14, 2005
Although King Kong is spectacular, its power doesn't reside in its glittering vision of 1933 Manhattan, Jackson's virtuoso flourishes or his computer-generated effects. It's so much simpler: When the gorilla touches the girl, he touches our hearts.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 14, 2005
There are some dazzling moments and remarkably clunky ones, a stitched together mixture of old and new, a genre tour that jumps in tone from jaunty comedy to sci-fi horror to laboured social commentary.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 14, 2005
Good things do come in big packages. The trick for any filmmaker is to find the small movie within the big one, which is exactly what Peter Jackson does in King Kong.
Full Review | Dec 14, 2005
One of those mad movies, like Moulin Rouge! or Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that fully justifies and deserves all the best and worst that can be said for or against them.
| Original Score: B+ | Dec 14, 2005
In a word, Jackson's King Kong is spectacular, awesome, phenomenal and breathtaking. OK, so I can't boil it down to one word.
| Dec 13, 2005
At three hours, Jackson's Kong is too bloated and digressive to match the pure adrenaline of the first film, perhaps the finest B-movie ever made.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 13, 2005
Editor Jamie Selkirk has been with Jackson since he was making 85 minute zombie movies and really should have stepped up, not that fans will complain about the excess.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2005