King Kong

2005
PG-13
3h 7m

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7.2/10

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Adventure Epic Dark Romance Dinosaur Adventure Globetrotting Adventure Jungle Adventure Urban Adventure Action Adventure Romance

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

454K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,708

178

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Won 3 Oscars
- 46 wins & 104 nominations total

Trivia
It took 18 months to craft the CGI version of the Empire State Building. The real thing was built in 14 months.

Goofs
The way Kong shakes and throws Ann around while carrying her would almost certainly snap her neck or spine.

Quotes
[last lines]
Carl Denham: It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.

Crazy credits
The end credits are set against an art deco backdrop rather than the traditional black screen. The backdrop is an exact replica, in Technicolor, of the same backdrop that was used for the opening credits in the 1933 version of "King Kong".

Alternate versions
On November 14, 2006, an extended edition DVD was released with 13 minutes of additional scenes edited back into the film. Denham's party is attacked both by a Ceratops immediately upon entering the jungle to rescue Ann and by a giant fish while on rafts on a river, after which they kill a giant bird while firing blindly into the jungle (the longest addition by far). Baxter's rescue of the party is extended and finishes with Jimmy's farewell to Hayes. Kong's pursuit of the party on Skull Island and his pursuit of Driscoll in NYC are slightly extended, and there are two brief additional encounters between Kong and the military in NYC. A complete breakdown is at http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=3550.

Connections
Edited into It's All Gone King Kong (2005)

Soundtracks
I'm Sitting on Top of the World
Written by Ray Henderson, Joe Young, Sam Lewis (as Sam M. Lewis)
Performed by Al Jolson
Courtesy of Geffen Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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Featured review

9/10

A Great Adventure

I agree, some scenes maybe are a bit too long. But what do you expect from a 3 hour movie? That it is short?

You know how the duration before you start watching.

I was thinking give it an eight or a nine. I chose nine. Because overall this still is a great adventure movie for sure.

The more recent Kong: Skull Island is a fun watch as well, but more like a fast paced action movie of it's time.

This Peter Jackson version has it's fair amount of action and still pretty good effects and tells a better and more complete story.