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King Kong

2005

Peter Jackson

Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Thomas Kretschmann ...

6.2

73,051

Adventure. Fantasy. Action 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, ... [+]

	Author	Review
Spain	Pablo Kurt FilmAffinity	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".	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"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."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"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)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Here is the jaw-dropping, eye-popping, heart-stopping movie epic we’ve been waiting for all year (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"[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."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"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."	POS

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