King is right! Fantastic, Fabulous, Fantabulous. What a great film. I'm afraid I won't be watching it again for a long while though. I sobbed my little heart out for the final hour and I have to give myself time to recover. It was so upsetting, I even felt sad today just thinking about poor Kong chained up in the theatre, and when he reached his hand out to Anne when they captured him on the island, OH! My mum is waiting for the video so she does not have a similar public snot and tears incident. Even though the film was 3 hours long, the time didn't drag. I have been in movies that were only 80 minutes getting numb bum and a twitchy watch arm. I was glad Kong got to kick some ass, he deserved to. Stupid humans. I think the reason I did cry so much is because he is an animal and it's not his fault. If Kong was a giant human I wouldn't have given two hoots. The CGI was of course brilliant, having been provided by Weta. Their work is miles ahead of other studios, they deserve another Oscar. The love story element was also quite good because it wasn't mushy or tacked on the end just for the sake of it like in some other movies (i.e Speed, National Treasure). The natives were rather terrifying, it is a great scene where they offer Anne to Kong. If I was Anne I would have stayed on the island with Kong. It would have been great hanging out with him, better than New York in the Depression that's for sure, acting in the chorus of rubbish plays. Silly girl. Jack Black did a marvelous job as Carl Denham - the man who captures Kong. I had thought, like many others, that he would make the film dumb but he did an awesome job, so much so I wanted to slap him so hard at the end. It must be said that the actors and the writers did a brilliant job, they stirred so much emotion in me (and the two girls sitting beside me I noticed). I haven't cried that much in a movie since Disney's Robin Hood when I was about 7.
Jackson has done it again, Spielberg can had his battered happy-ending loving crown over. Jackson is the king of directors. Or maybe even the kong, he is hairy enough.