King Kong details
| Formats: | 12 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Jack Black, Andy Serkis, Kyle Chandler, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts |
| Director: | Peter Jackson |
| Genre: | Action/Adventure - Comedy |
| Studio: | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Collections: | Top 400 All-Time Rentals |
| Name | Discs | |
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King Kong |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 59 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 10 Apr 2006 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Arabic, Icelandic |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMPeter Jackson remakes 1933?s King Kong with his love for the original version shining through in this epic blockbuster starring Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody.
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It Wasn't the Planes...
By RJTaylor (31 reviews) from Manchester , 04 Jan 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
Greenery, and green-screenery, abound in Peter Jackson't latest offering. It's good - great, even - but if it's the best film you've ever seen you need to stay in more.
I was amazed that after the relatively seamless LotR trilogy, that it was easy to spot some of the joins in the SFX, and the lack of detail in the storyline had me a bit frustrated. The answer to just how they got Kong on that boat all the way back to New York remains a mystery. And towards the end I was a little tired of the CGI-spectacular and wished just get up that damned building so we could get on to the foregone conclusion.
But despite my above whinges, I actually really enjoyed Kong. Well worth spending 3 hours of your life on, but I'd strongly recommend you try and see it in a cinema with good sound, or at the very least wait for the DVD release to watch it on a rich mate's great big sound system - certainly the pirates from the pub could never do this movie justice.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(597)Love this film.
By bruich (3 reviews) , 06 Jan 2013I think this film is utterly amazing - in fact i'm surprised it only has 3 stars on here from a lot of people. Everything from the cast (jack black does a remarkable job) to the scenery and the special effects is spot on. A classic.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Fantastic movie
By Chunky_Monkey (2 reviews) , 24 Apr 2012THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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a film you'll either love or hate
By cheesekake (1282 reviews) from uk , 17 Mar 2012i loved this film not necessarily because of the fact it was king kong, i loved it becaues of the special effects, which sometimes seemed a little sily but didn't defract from the brilliant storyline- Was this review helpful to you?
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not bad
By a customer , 21 Jan 2012was ok but just think im to young 4 this film even know it a remake did like how jack black was in it lol- Was this review helpful to you?
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KONG KO'D BY TECHNOLOGY
By a customer , 29 Dec 2011I saw this again on the ITV network over Christmas (2011) and was, for the first time, actually hooked by the opening 90-or-so minutes where the back story is nicely built up and, until the unnecessarily badly handled arrival on Skull Island and the over use of slow-motion photography, the remake was going very well indeed.
The bonus was that the extra time allowed many of the minor characters to be fleshed-out and when they inevitably died on Skull Island, you actually felt for them.
The storm prior to the arrival at the midway point of the film is very well done and the entire scene where the ship is almost crushed against the rocks in quite effective and brilliant.
Oh dear, though! it's then that the film hits the rocks and becomes a rather glorified lesson in the over use of CGI. And some of it surprisingly quite bad. (This becomes more apparent on the blu ray) Especially, the scene where the dinosaurs stampede and the group of heroes are running with them atop of some impressive digital cliffs. But, can't you tell that they are superimposed onto the cliff top.
This really is one film that, had it benefited from any new home technology, should have been left at the DVD stage as the blu ray totally wrecks some of the less impressive SPFX work.
Kong is not a masterpiece. But, neither is it a bad film. It's very reminiscent of 'Avatar' (Or rather 'Avatar' of it) An over-abundance of style over solid entertaining content.- Was this review helpful to you?
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