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King Kong

1976

John Guillermin

Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, Charles Grodin, John Randolph ...

5.4

6,674

Fantasy The owner of the oil company Petrox Corporation, Fred Wilson, invests all his possessions searching oil in an unexplored island. The vessel leaves Surubaya, in Indonesia, with the stowaway Jack Prescott, who wants to protect an ape called Kong. While traveling, they find the castaway Dwan in the middle of nowhere in a rescue boat in the ocean and bring her on board. The group finds that the island is inhabited and the local natives ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The movie is a romantic adventure fantasy--colossal, silly, touching"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"The lamest of the three versions but the performances are bearable (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Reducing one of the most compelling cultural icons of the century to a comic book character, this $22 million project makes a passable kiddie show, and not much else."	NEU
United States	Jim Knipfel Den of Geek	"Almost 40 years later, it's not as bad as everyone thought. Not close to the original, better than the Peter Jackson fiasco, it holds up pretty well (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It's a series of big, foolish but entertaining spectacle scenes"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Whatever the failings of its ape effects, they have a tangible quality that even Jackson’s great CGI work couldn’t fake"	POS
United States	Scott G. Mignola Common Sense Media	"Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange do what they can to keep this film afloat, but a hokey script and uneven effects nearly sink the boat they rode in on (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Vinnie Mancuso Collider	"[It] remains the best iteration of the big guy"	POS

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