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Kong: Skull Island

Original title

King Kong

Year

2005

Running time

187 min.

Country

United States

Director

Peter Jackson

Screenwriter

Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens. Story: Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace

Cast

Music

James Newton Howard

Cinematography

Andrew Lesnie

Producer

Co-production United States-New Zealand-Germany;

Universal Pictures, Wingnut Films, Big Primate Pictures, MFPV Film

Genre

Adventure. Fantasy. Action | Remake. Apes. Dinosaurs. Animals. 1930s

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Synopsis

Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is an actress who finds herself out of a job in Depression-era New York. Her luck changes when she meets Carl Denham (Jack Black), an entrepreneur, adventurer and filmmaker, who is struggling to make a name for himself. Adrien Brody plays Jack Driscoll, a New York playwright, who becomes an unlikely hero in a romantic adventure story that is set to test his physical courage and heart. Denham and his film crew, sail to the remote Skull Island to film his latest epic. The natives kidnap Ann and plan to use her as a sacrifice to the island's giant gorrila named King Kong. Carl decides to capture Kong and brings him back to New York City, but Kong escapes and is now out of control.

Rankings Position

#41 Best Movies about Animals

Awards: 2005: 3 Academy Awards: Best Visual Effects, Sound Editing, Sound. 5 Nominations

2005: 2 Nominations for Golden Globe: Best Director, Original Soundtrack

2005: BAFTA Awards: Best Visual Effects. 3 Nominations

2005: Special Award in el Festival Toronto: Andy Serkis

2005: American Film Institute (AFI): Top 10 - Movies of the Year

2005: 2 Nominations for Critics' Choice Awards: Best Picture, Director

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Critics' reviews

"A stupendous adventure (...) No matter how spectacular the action, 'King Kong' is never more captivating than when the giant ape and his blond captive are looking into each others’ eyes."

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"A magnificent entertainment. It is like the flowering of all the possibilities in the original classic film. Computers are used not merely to create special effects, but also to create style and beauty (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we’ve been waiting for all year (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"[It] is high-powered entertainment, but Jackson pushes too hard and loses momentum over the more than three hours of the movie. The story was always a goofy fable—that was its charm—and a well-told fable knows when to stop."

David Denby: The New Yorker
"Peter Jackson's remake is as much a tribute to the old, seat-of-the-pants spirit of early motion pictures as it is an exercise in technological bravura."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
It was so entertaining that I got an overdose of entertainment! But who cares? It is the latest picture from Peter Jackson, the director who received Oscars for ending "the Return of the King" six times. A remake of the classic 1933 film with sad eyes from the monkey and even sadder eyes from Adrien Brody. It is "King Too Long Kong".

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