All these years on from its original release, King Kong still has a great claim to being the eighth wonder of the world.
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09/19/07
King Kong (1933)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:46
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.9/10
Consensus: King Kong explores the soul of a monster -- making audiences scream and cry throughout the film -- in large part due to Kong's breakthrough special effects.
Runtime: 5 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: While shooting a jungle movie on the remote Skull Island, filmmaker Denham and his crew stumble upon a prehistoric world populated by dinosaurs and giant snakes. The most dangerous and magnificent... [More]
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
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Reviews for King Kong
Wholly enjoyable.
10/07/08
While Kong is, in most scenes, only an 18-inch studio model, the stop motion special effects are so intelligently accomplished and lovingly detailed that the animated gorilla often appears more expressive than the human actors.
07/30/03
It's gonna be hard for Jackson to top this one!
01/16/05
King Kong was created to grip and thrill like no movie before, and these basic principles hold surprisingly true today.
06/13/01
No review available.
09/02/04
King Kong exemplifies a sort of personal expressiveness and cinematic mysticism that's all the more awesome for its apparent outmodedness.
07/30/03
No review available.
10/31/03
There are very few works of cinema that stand up to repeated viewings and decades of changing film mores and audience expectations. Most notable among these is the classic King Kong.
05/23/04
Beat your chest for this one.
11/24/05
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11/14/05
No review available.
05/14/03
Willis O'Brien did the stop-action animation for this 1933 feature, which is richer in character than most of the human cast.
07/02/07
Top CriticPerhaps we have fallen in love with this movie because we distrust our civilization and feel betrayed that we have lost our sense of nature.
04/28/04
No review available.
07/17/05
The beauty of this original King Kong is that there's more to it than the oversized gorilla.
12/02/05
Still to this day it doesn't come off as cheesy and that's because the filmmakers never approached it as such.
02/21/04
In many ways, Kong is still king.
12/06/05
Top CriticOriginal and still superior version of the classic story. What is scary is that this film special effects in this film actually looks better than its expensive remake several decades later!
01/01/00
Still unbelievably good; made with painstaking detail and care.
03/27/03
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