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King Kong [Widescreen]

Actor(s): Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks
Director(s): Peter Jackson
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Details

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Language, Suitable for Teens
Movie Release: 2005
DVD Release: 03/28/2006
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 3 hrs 8 mins
Studio: MCA Home Video
Total Copies: 60
Genres: Adventure, Period Film, Creature Film, Jungle Film
See Also: King Kong [Fullscreen], King Kong [Widescreen] [Special Edition], King Kong [Deluxe Extended Edition], King Kong [Deluxe Extended Edition Gift Set], King Kong

Synopsis

One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930's, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting wildlife in remote and dangerous jungle lands; despite the objections of his backers, Denham plans to film his next project aboard an ocean vessel en route to Skull Island, an uncharted island he discovered on a rare map. Correctly assuming his cast and crew would be wary of such a journey, Denham has told them they're traveling to Singapore, but before they set sail, his leading lady drops out of the project. Needing a beautiful actress willing to take a risk, Denham finds Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), a beautiful but down-on-her-luck vaudeville performer and offers her the role; cautious but eager to work, Darrow takes the role, and onboard the ship she strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. When Denham and Company arrive on Skull Island, the natives react with savage violence, but they happen to be the least of their worries. Skull Island is a sanctuary for prehistoric life, and lording it over the dinosaurs and other giant beasts is Kong, a twenty-five-foot-tall gorilla who can outfight any creature on Earth. The natives kidnap Darrow, giving her to Kong as an offering to appease the giant beast; Denham and his men set out to find her, with Driscoll bravely determined to save the woman he loves. Eventually, Driscoll finds Darrow and Denham outwits Kong, intending to take the giant ape back to New York for display. But Kong has bonded with Darrow, and his attraction to her proves to be his undoing. Andy Sirkis, who provided the body movements for Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings pictures, performed similar duties on King Kong, studying gorillas so he could mimic their actions, which were then used as the basis for the special effects crew's digital animation of the great ape. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Naomi Watts - Ann Darrow
Jack Black - Carl Denham
Adrien Brody - Jack Driscoll
Thomas Kretschmann - Captain Englehorn
Colin Hanks - Preston
Andy Serkis - King Kong

Awards

2005	Best Director (nominee)	Broadcast Film Critics Association	Peter Jackson
2005	Best Director (nominee)	Golden Globe	Peter Jackson
2005	Best Original Score (nominee)	Golden Globe	James Newton Howard
2005	Best Actress (winner)	London Film Critics Association	Naomi Watts
2005	Best Director (nominee)	London Film Critics Association	Peter Jackson
2005	Best Production Design (winner)	Phoenix Film Critics Association	Grant Major
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	Phoenix Film Critics Association	Joe Letteri
2005	Best Director (nominee)	Chicago Film Critics Association	Peter Jackson
2005	Best Actress (nominee)	Chicago Film Critics Association	Naomi Watts
2005	Best Original Score (nominee)	Chicago Film Critics Association	James Newton Howard
2005	Best Cinematography (nominee)	Chicago Film Critics Association	Andrew Lesnie
2005	Best Cinematography (winner)	St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Associat	Andrew Lesnie
2005	Best Director (nominee)	Online Film Critics Association	Peter Jackson
2005	Best Actress (nominee)	Online Film Critics Association	Naomi Watts
2005	Best Score (nominee)	Online Film Critics Association	James Newton Howard
2005	Best Cinematography (nominee)	American Society of Cinematographers	Andrew Lesnie
2005	Best Production Design (nominee)	British Academy of Film and Television	Grant Major
2005	Best Sound (nominee)	British Academy of Film and Television	Hammond Peek
2005	Best Sound (nominee)	British Academy of Film and Television	Christopher Boyes
2005	Best Sound (nominee)	British Academy of Film and Television	Mike Hopkins
2005	Best Sound (nominee)	British Academy of Film and Television	Ethan Van der Ryn
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	British Academy of Film and Television	Joe Letteri
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	British Academy of Film and Television	Christian Rivers
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	British Academy of Film and Television	Brian Vant Hul
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	British Academy of Film and Television	Richard Taylor
2005	Best Art Direction - Period or Fantasy Film (nominee)	Art Directors Guild	Grant Major
2005	Best Art Direction (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Grant Major
2005	Best Art Direction (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Dan Hennah
2005	Best Art Direction (nominee)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Simon Bright
2005	Best Sound Editing (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Mike Hopkins
2005	Best Sound Editing (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Ethan Van der Ryn
2005	Best Sound Mixing (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Christopher Boyes
2005	Best Sound Mixing (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Michael Semanick
2005	Best Sound Mixing (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Michael Hedges
2005	Best Sound Mixing (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Hammond Peek
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Joe Letteri
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Brian Vant Hul
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Christian Rivers
2005	Best Visual Effects (winner)	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie	Richard Taylor

Member Reviews

Jeff V. wrote on 3/12/2008...

2 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is a great remake of king kong. I figured the computer graphics would be over the top. I've grown tired of seeing the CGI in everything now days. But I liked it in this. It's true that they did the overboard CGI thing a bit when Kong fights the dinosaurs in the vines but overall its great. You really feel sorry for King Kong in this thing. It's a surprisingly emotional ending in my opinion.

Aimee M. wrote on 2/5/2008...

TWO WORDS: "King LONG"
That should've been the title.

The First Hour I really liked. It had a good little romantic story going on, the build up was good, the characters were being well developed.

The came the Second Hour... characters that you thought would amount to something never really had a part
(For example: the stowaway cabin boy was found mysteriously... you are thinking you will find he is connected somehow to the island but instead... nothing. He just runs with the rest of the people from the giant CG monkey)

I really didn't like the natives. Creepy! :P And there were other overly done parts. Giant bugs and what not.

In the last hour you're going, "Holy cow, how long IS this movie?" And of course we all know how it ends so it is kinda irritating that it takes 20 minutes to get to that point!

The only other thing is... how could the couple kiss on the top of the Empire State Building... do you have any idea how WINDY it would be up there? :) LOL!

Ok, in short: this movie is long.
You can request it, watch it once, and repost it. That's what I would do anyway.

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