recommended

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Better Late Then Never

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

As a tot in 1976, I remember seeing blurbs and photos from this in "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and "The Monster Times", and then hearing it had been suppressed by Dino DeLaurentiis. I grew up imagining a cheeky, raunchy, hip spoof and now, finally, over 32 years later, I feel compelled to report QUEEN KONG is the worst movie I've ever endured, and that includes MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (and JUNO). Smug, ghastly cheap (what the hell did they spend the 632K budget on, exactly?!), laugh-free, irritating to the point of nausea, its 84 minutes feel like hours. There's not enough material here to sustain a two-minute sketch in the worst KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE knock-off you could ever imagine, and I would like to personally test anyone who finds this entertaining for developmental disabilities. It makes Dino's KONG look like the 1933 original and should be avoided at any price. I would rather sit through two semesters of trigonometry, go without sex for six months, and endure a jalapeno enema than have to view this again. It's really that bad.

OK,I purchased this on a Dutch r2 DVD cheap,I heard a lot of comments about saying it had been forced out of circulation in the 70's and it wasn't very good.So i sat down and gave it a chance. Since this is British,the action takes place in London (fun) and also on "the island" (ok).First up having Robin Askwith in it helps a lot,he's one of my favorite British actors from around that time.He has that sort of hippie charm i guess.The lovely Rula Lenska (redheads rule) really does a good job here too and it includes a lot more beautiful girls (I know i'm a chauvinist pig!).After a short intro establishing the character Rule lenska plays (the director),the action starts in the streets of London (Portobello road) and swiftly moves to "the island" where the film slows down a bit,but quickly picks up again shortly after (Queenie fighting the monsters) and we actually get to see the transport to London (for a bit). As soon as Queenie arrives there the fun really starts and the action picks up considerably...AND we get a happy end for a change! Incredibly this movie is over the top feminist stuff (all firmly tongue in cheek) ... and I especially like the relationship between Queenie and the Robin Askwith character.Like i said the tone is very feminist and the strange character Robin plays in this has nothing of a "real man" with his girlie clothes and robes and gentle ways,really refreshing lol...The humor is typical British madness of that time,a bit hit and miss but generally not bad,I found myself laughing out loud several times.It's good trashy fun.Another thing...I really liked the songs in this movie,fun stuff! Overall a movie I'll cherish in my collection and that deserves and will be getting repeated viewing.I like! Oh I almost forgot,it also offers some good new ideas concerning Kong here (like having the 2 "lovers" get into a fight in the apartment building and Queenie coming to the rescue)! Final thoughts:I wonder if this was Italian,would it have more fans?

Hidden away for many years, Queen Kong is finally gained a DVD release, probably to the embarrassment of the stars, but also to the joy of fans of low budget seventies comedy. The film follows the 1933 King Kong remarkably closely and has fun poking fun at many films of the time. The film is clearly not to be taken seriously and has it's tongue firmly embedded in it's cheeky cheek and is by no means difficult to sit through. The women's lib overtones are quite laughable though as there are plenty of scantily clad (no nudity though) females exploiting the gender and prancing around for the men of the audience to have a right good ogle. A lot of the jokes may be of the 'groan' variety but in my book there's no such thing as a bad pun. One particular scene that gave me a hearty chortle was where a priest on a plane decks an annoying lady passenger because of her annoying laughter, and the singing nun on the plane raised a smile too. Of course film snobs will poo-poo it as film snobs are want to do and that's fine. It's not a film made for them, but for those who like ever-so-slightly risqué knockabout farces will get a lot from it. And from a strictly male point of view, any film that has Valerie Leon in a skimpy bikini for the entire length of it has to add a little something. It also looks better than it should do really, even if the white cliffs of Dover are now to be found on the African coast.

When they announced the first remake of King Kong in 1975, other Countries scrambled to make they're own Kongs. There was China's Mighty Piking Man and Thailand's APE, both sucked to high Heaven. But one of these Kong wanna-be's stand out and that was Queen Kong. While the rest of the world went out of there way to rip off the classic Kong storyline and fail. The British decided to go another direction, not imitate, parody. Thus Queen Kong was born, of course made quickly and cheaply there are some production value issues. But it is clever and funny and I feel that Benny Hill had a hand in it somewhere. I find the story hilarious, the effects passable and the acting over the top, in the funny way. In my book as Kong rip offs go, you can't go wrong by doing right. This is the best of the rip offs, it's clever twist makes it not only worth watching, it makes it worth owning. 9 BIG STARS.