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		List Price: $26.98		Label: Universal Studios Salesrank: 1578 Released: January 20, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:

Genre: Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 20-JAN-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Description of King Kong [Blu-ray]:

King Kong [Blu-ray] Reviews:
extra features are great!
2009-12-28 - I haven't watched the movie yet. I bought this for the extra features. The post production calendar is an amazing insight in how a film is put together.

I lost 3 hours and 8 minutes that I want back.
2009-12-17 - **SOME SPOILERS**

Wow, this movie was really, really bad. The plot is pretty darn close to the original one. A group of people go to an "uncharted" island and then they find some things, and of course, Kong. Kong falls in love with Ann, climbs the Empire State Building, then dies. That's pretty much it.

This movie has a lot of problems. We get to know Ann and how she's can out of work actress. It's kind of important to the story, but I felt that dragged the story on a bit, but I can let all of that go. That being said, there was so much that I can't let go. I grew tired of the group that went on the island and how they were chased by dinosaurs, and other monsters in every single place they went to on the island. It grew tiresome, and slowed the plot to a screeching hault and didn't advance the story at all. They had it in there, "because it would look good." That's the only reason. It was just a waste of time. A great example is when Kong had to fight 3 T-Rex's, it was just silly and didn't add anything to the story. At times, the special effects looked kind of cheesy and very over the top.

The characters were so flat, dry and had no personality. There were boring. I felt they were doing impossible things. The character of Jack Driscoll really annoyed me to no end. At one point he was at the bottom of a lake out running a monster (again, a monster had to be there) and he was underwater for such a long time. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was just so far fetched. As for Jack Black, he's always annoying. Even the character of Ann was getting on my nerves. At one point, she was climbing up the Empire State Building in high heels!! That part was just so over the top, I was actually laughing at it.

Also, how did the people get Kong of the island and to New York? They couldn't have brought Kong back on the ship they came to the island on because it was pretty much destroyed. The movie never addressed that issue. For me, it was a major, major plot hole.

The Blu Ray: The picture was clear and very sharp! I mean it was crystal clear. When Kong was on the Empire State Building, it was so clear, that I felt uneasy watching it because it looked so real. I actually felt like I was on the Empire State Building. I did like that. I know it sounds strange, but it was pretty interesting experience. The sound was fantastic. It actually felt like I was in the jungle with the group. I did like that part of it. There are lot of extra's with the blu ray, but I didn't really care about them.

If you like Blu Rays that have great sounds, great images, this is a very good transfer-very good! However, as for the movie itself.... it's a clunker. There is just to much special effects, cheesy effects, and has a slow plot, that doesn't move along, then this is for you.

Very good blu ray transfer, very bad movie.

I Obsessed Over King Kong
2009-12-08 - I love this movie a lot! The classic tale of the huge gorilla who terrorizes New York. The suspense, drama, screenplay, and music keep me on the edge of my seat the whole movie. its great for slumber parties and just hanging out. I was actually obsessed about this movie for a while it was so good!

Awesome in Bluray!
2009-12-03 - The ultimate HD movie, fantactic picture and sound. Great family movie for those with older (over 13?) kids. Only objection is that it's a bit L O N G, and that's the theatrical version--not the extended one which is 14 minutes L O N G E R. Better viewed in 2 sittings for this household.

King Kong... Yankee Doodle Kong
2009-11-22 - King Kong: 8 out of 10: Peter Jackson's Kong is a long love letter to the original movie that surprisingly turns into that rarest of crowd pleasers. A movie that both men and their gals will like. Like Titanic, Kong has enough action to keep boys of all ages happy and a romance (complete with tragic ending) to get the ladies crying.

And what a romance. Kong and Naomi Watts light up the screen with that most famous of dysfunctional cross species parings. And while you may be mumbling Stockholm Syndrome at the beginning (Not to mention whiplash, jeez Jackson turn down the rag doll physics on the Naomi Watts CGI effect. The way Kong flings her around she should end the film in a body cast) the romance seems to win even the cynics (yours truly) at the end.

The rest of the cast is also top notch with Jack Black playing an Orson Wells style director so well it is almost freighting. Speaking of frightening many people wondered aloud how Jackson would handle the racist caricature (by today standards) of the island natives especially considering the whole disturbing white wizard versus the "dark forces" subtext of the LOTR films. Not to worry the embarrassing stereotypes of happy dancing black people are mocked in the Kong stage show putting that embarrassing Hollywood episode to rest.

Instead the residents of Skull Island are some of the scariest people ever put on film. Pushing the PG-13 rating to the limit they put the can back in cannibal. Its nice to see natives bashing skulls, going into voodoo trances and kidnapping white woman they invoke the much happier stereotype of the true island savage. Hell they are scarier than the ape.

Possible racial insensitivity aside Kong is far from perfect. While the special effects are overall top notch there are seams. For example when people run with the dinosaurs the limit of the green screen seems to show through (And could we get a moratorium on velociraptors in movies. They are really getting cliché and being a relatively new paleontological find really don't fit in a thirties era Kong movie. Yes I know that isn't logical but they kind of seem modern as if a character had a cell phone).

The other real problem is length. This feels like the directors cut. With an easy 30 minutes of film that could (and probably should) end up on the cutting room floor. We spend so much time in various Kong free Broadway theaters one might mistake this for a Yankee Doodle Dandy remake. All that said great action scary islanders and tragic romance make King Kong a winner.