King Kong (2005)

"Monsters belong in B movies.", 25 May 2007

I saw the remake King Kong the other night for the first time and have to say I was disappointed. I had recently read some positive things about the movie from some people I trust, so my hopes of discovering a good and enjoyable movie were up. But in the end I had way too many problems with the movie. I could make a rather long list, but I'll stick to highlighting a few things that really bugged me -

1. If I had to watch one more scene of Ann Darrow making googly eyes with a gorilla, I think I might have hurled.

2. Good idea, sport. Close your eyes and shoot bugs off your friend with a machine gun.

3. Ann Darrow certainly can take a licking and keep on ticking. I mean how was she not seriously injured, let alone killed, after the handling she received during the T-Rex fight.

4. The CGI in the dinosaur stampede scene was dreadful.

5. Jack Black!

It's not that the whole movie was a complete waste. There were some very nice things about King Kong to enjoy (the CGI Kong, Naomi Watts, some of the opening sequence). I suppose the biggest fault I find with King Kong relates directly to the director, Peter Jackson. How in the world he thought he could take 60 or so minutes of material and stretch it to fill a 3+ hour movie is beyond me. Sometimes less is more.

4/10