A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

For the amount of money spent on this fiasco, you'd think there would be some quality movie making involved...but no, this turned out to be the cheap way out.The producers got the cheapest actors they could find, spent little on special effects, and modernized the story to include an Oil Company AND a super tanker, heh heh...Oh, they must have searched a long time to get a high school screen writer too, there's a line in there, "Holy Smoke", that had me laughing when they saw the huge stockade...This one is the bottom of the barrel for entertainment...

We so fondly remember the classic 1931 film with Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray. This is pretty much the same movie, in color, with different motivations, using modern iconic structures (the World Trade Centers). But it all gets down to the invasion of an island by outsiders where a primitive tribe continues to sacrifice young women to a god (King Kong). Unfortunately, the gorgeous young Jessica Lange, who has been picked up on the open sea (certainly one of the great cinematic contrivances), is captured and about to become a snack for the big monkey. Along the way, Kong falls in love with her. Maybe he saw the original movie and Fay was a bit long in the tooth. Lange is rescued and the big gorillas strapped to an empty oil tanker and brought to New York where he is going to be exhibited for big bucks. Well, hope many horror stories have you seen. I'm not going to spoil the fun, but nature takes its course. It's not a bad movie. It just doesn't have any surprises.

Oil executive Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin) leads an expedition to a cloud shrouded island in the Indian Ocean. He thinks the cloud is from huge deposits of hydrocarbons. Primate paleontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) stowaway on the ship and tells them that the cloud is caused by an unseen creature. On the way to lock up Prescott, they rescue unconscious starlet wannabe Dwan (Jessica Lange) on a life raft. Wilson brings Prescott and Dwan on shore. They are confronted by a primitive tribe who then kidnaps Dwan to be sacrificed to the great ape.I like the change of the expedition to oil exploration. However they kept Dwan as a flaky starlet. Jessica Lange is absolutely beautiful and she's funny at times. However she's way too flighty and I can see criticism of her acting. I guess it's impossible back in the day to have her be a scientist. Nevertheless it's stupid to have her be literally the damsel in distress. The special effects are basically an ape suit and well shoot cinematography. The giant ape hand looks way too mechanical. The best part is King Kong rolling the tree. While it's great to have the World Trade Center, the movie doesn't take full advantage of its height to instill fear. This is a passable light weight remake at best. It just has too many problems to be great.

As we all know, there are three versions of King Kong. The 1933 version, this version, and the 2005 version by peter Jackson. Jackson's Kong was amazing, 1933 King Kong was meh, and this King Kong is just utter trash. First of all, the story. Boy, does it stink. First of all, the villain is somebody working to drill oil on skull island. What? What did the other king kongs have to do with oil? They didn't! Plus, (my biggest problem in this film) there are no dinosaurs! Dinosaurs are what made the other 2 movies so entertaining. The director of this piece of garbage removed the dinosaurs because "they interfered with the love story". Well, King Kong is not supposed to be a love story! It's an adventure story! Plus, the characters are very weak. Dwan was just a stupid ditz whose attitude got pretty annoying, and the other characters aren't even remotely interesting. Also, the effects stink! Kong is obviously someone in a gorilla suit. I don't even know what more to say. It just stinks. If you want to see a remake of King Kong, see Jackson's version. This is a King Kong you can definitely skip.