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09/04/03
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
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07/30/02
Beat your chest for this one.
11/24/05
King Kong was created to grip and thrill like no movie before, and these basic principles hold surprisingly true today.
06/13/01
King Kong exemplifies a sort of personal expressiveness and cinematic mysticism that's all the more awesome for its apparent outmodedness.
07/30/03
All these years on from its original release, King Kong still has a great claim to being the eighth wonder of the world.
09/19/07
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 CriticEven allowing for its slow start, wooden acting and wall-to-wall screaming, there is something ageless and primeval about King Kong that still somehow works.
02/16/02
Top CriticKing Kong es el termómetro obligado con el que se miden todas las películas de monstruos gigantes; desde los voraces velociraptors hasta la maternal Godzilla
05/20/02
No review available.
11/14/05
It's one of the rare, great works of art that stands up to endless repeated viewings, each time revealing something new.
12/17/05
In much the same manner as The Wizard of Oz and It's a Wonderful Life, it long ago entered into the national consciousness as an enduring part of our heritage.
11/30/05
One of those mad movies, like Moulin Rouge! or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, that fully justifies and deserves all the best and worst that can be said for or against them.
02/11/06
One of the finest adventure movies ever made and the true prototype for all monster movies to follow, KING KONG is, even after 83 years, still the one true ruler of high-end escapist cinema.
11/30/05
'King Kong died for our sins.' It's a T-shirt seen recently in Seattle, worn by a teenager and illustrated with the original vintage image of the monster ape atop the Empire State Building.
04/04/06
King Kong may seem outmoded, with its exaggerated histrionics, its stilted dialogue, and its wooden acting, but then there's Kong, and how can you not still love him?
11/13/05
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
No review available.
07/17/05
A brilliantly structured adventure movie.
12/06/05
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
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