Synopses & Reviews
Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson (
The Lord of the Rings) brings his sweeping cinematic vision to
King Kong.
Naomi Watts, Jack Black, and Adrien Brody star in this spectacular film filled with heart-pounding action, terrifying creatures and groundbreaking special effects unlike anything you've seen before! Get ready for breathtaking action in this thrilling epic adventure about a legendary gorilla captured on a treacherous island and brought to civilization, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival.
Review
"The movie seals Jackson's reputation: He's the most gifted big-picture artist working today, a master of epics from a human-eye view who excels at employing 21st-century technological wizardry to suit the needs of ageless, personal storytelling. (Grade: A)" Entertainment Weekly
Review
"This is spectacle filmmaking at its best, where a director is in tune with the story's underlying emotions and his own boyish love for adventure fantasy." Hollywood Reporter
Review
"This is one of the year's best films." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Review
"Peter Jackson's King Kong is the most thrilling, soulful monster picture ever made. At last, it can be said without irony I laughed, I cried." New York Daily News
Review
"Monstrous. Monumental. Magnificent. Use any term you want, there's no denying the power, genius and spectacle of King Kong, which is certainly the biggest movie of the year and possibly the biggest movie ever made." Detroit News
Review
"This Kong is high-powered entertainment, but Jackson pushes too hard and loses momentum over the more than three hours of the movie." David Denby, The New Yorker
Review
"Peter Jackson's remake is as much a tribute to the old, seat-of-the-pants spirit of early motion pictures as it is an exercise in technological bravura." A. O. Scott, The New York Times
Review
"The unrelenting computer-animated action suffocates what seems to have been the movie's main purpose, to expand on the Kong-Ann relationship." San Francisco Chronicle
Review
"You've seen it all before but most assuredly never like this." Boston Globe
Description
DVD Features:
- Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- The Volkswagen Toureg & King Kong
- "Wish You Were Here"