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King Kong [Blu-ray]
King Kong [Blu-ray]
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5Blu Ray Rocks
4A Visual Smorgasboard
5King-Blu-Kong
5king blu-ray
5Smoking...
30%totally illogical movie
4I thought it was good
41%King Kong meets new age
51%"King Kong"-2005-Blu-Ray Extended Cut/Theatrical Version
20%Jackson the Joker
20%like watching a computer game
41%Kong is King!!
51%King Kong in Blu-ray
51%King Kong Blu-ray
5KING KONG BLU-RAY
4King Kong Review Update
5A VERY GOOD BLU RAY
51%Stunning Blu-Ray transfer!
5All you need
50%Serious monkey business but, great fun!
50%King Kong is one the best blu-ray
51%A Beastly good time
50%Always my favorite!
50%Blu-Ray King Kong will be one of the bell weather Disc's
50%wow
51%King Kong a real review for the Blu-ray
51%Feast for your eyes!
51%awsome
50%Don't care if it is the long or the short version this is a really great movie now on BluRay
50%ULTIMATE ADVENTURE BETTER THAN EVER IN BLU-RAY
51%This 8th Wonder Surpasses the Original
41%Movie:4/5 Picture Quality: 4.25~5/5 Sound Quality: 5/5 Extras: 1.25/5
51%Best Version of Kong Yet . . . Stunning Visual Masterpiece
40%It is the extended cut. GOD
20%King Kong...bloated!
10%King Krap!
10%Not The Extended Cut
40%3 stars out of 4
51%Great exciting escapist entertainment
41%Original Theatrical Version + Extended Version
40%Amazing film by a visionary director
50%Great remake from Jackson.
4Skull Island -- the tropical destination that's big on wildlife!
10%Dear Blu-Ray release companies.
51%King Kong Rules!!!
20%Could've been so much better
10%king
40%Good Movie
4A Chest Thumping, Rope Swinging Good Time
51%Fantasic!
51%Just plain Awesome
30%Middling
3Another Peter Jackson Masterpiece!
50%King Kong Rocks
31%Mixed feelings, but closer to a miss than a hit (*SPOILERS*),
10%Simply dreadful!
5Crap! 3 hours & 8 minutes? (whistles) that's longer than Titanic
5One of My All-Time Favorites
51%King Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World!!
3Coulda, Shoulda
51%King Kong (2005) - The Remake that Did the Original Justice
5King Kong HD-DVD
5I love this movie.
5King Kong
5Jackson does it again
5King of the Kongs
51%A great remake of King Kong
51%Long but worth every minute.
51%Jackson goes Ape
10%Wait to see it on TV
51%WHAT A GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
20%Good cause it played
41%I was wowed.
51%The King is Back!
50%Deserves a better rating
50%King Kong
50%action
51%A great movie. This is a remake that's worth it!
40%King Kong 2005
10%Over-Rated, Cheesy, Boring, Corny, OVER-RATED!
50%AWESOME MOVIE, AWESOME HD
50%King Order
51%This is the Demo Disc you want to show off your system!
30%King Kong, A Review by SpeekNDaTruuf
51%King Kong [HD DVD]
50%The Beautiful Tragedy
30%2 1/2 stars for the special effects
10%King Kong should have been left on the island
50%>>> GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME <<<
10%Buyers Beware...
41%Kong
51%If only Merian Cooper were still alive
30%It was OK I suppose but I wouldn't buy it like I did if I were you. It was a gift...3.3 stars.
41%Nice Gift edition
20%The world would have gotten along fine without this version
31%An hour too long
20%A Little Girl With a Little Curl
20%A solid C grade for this one
51%Wow! Cinematic bliss.
5Love t his movie
41%Great special effects, poor actor choices.
30%Monkey business
5Showoff your HD DVD Player/TV
20%Should have been better
30%just a normal movie
5OUSTANDING - but long as heck
31%She Never Gets Whiplash
20%King Kong sized absurdity
51%Pretty exciting movie
40%Do away with the ice pond and it's 5 stars
11%One of the biggest disappointments of the decade.
41%Visually stunning HD DVD with a so-so plot.
50%This is the Best!
40%KONG is still the KING
11%They Got It Right The First Time
51%Excellent Showcase for HD-DVD
5A timeless classic
30%Higher Definition on Low Quality
51%If you thought Jurassic Park was a cool movie, you should check this out
50%King Kong
51%King Kong with the Lord Of The Rings treatment
20%I'm being generous with 2 stars...
50%The definitive KING KONG
10%Naomi Watts is the only good thing in this boring movie
4The Bigger they are. . . . The harder they . . . well, you know!
10%So dumb it's pathetic
50%Wonderful movie
30%Way too long
4GREAT SPECIAL EFFECTS ROLLER COASTER RIDE, BUT NOT MUCH ELSE
50%Great adventure movie!
51%A Whole Lotta Story...Well Done
21%where is the remake from the 70's..which was better
51%Wonderful Wonderful
10%Wow, 3 hrs and 7 minutes I'll never get back!
51%Great Movie
51%Tore Kong
10%NIGHTMARE material and way too long - big waste of time -
51%Incredibly emotional
51%Flawless
50%King Kong
50%Here we go again
41%HD-DVD too good?
4Worth watching
30%A bad movie, but with excellent picture
41%A very good remake
10%Valium didn't work...
51%I know what you are thinking ...
51%Spectacular!
51%After one hour non-stop action
10%King Kong Goes Wrong
51%How can anyone not like this film
41%It's KING KONG people, not Citizen Kane, sheesh...
51%Extended Edition a gem
40%Great version of a classic
41%Peter Jackson sways to production time limits and studio's & writers' pressure to develop unnecessary characters
50%Peter Jackson provides a beautiful movie yet again
51%OUTSTANDING!
51%Peter Jackson the Genre Master
5Peter Jackson and Weta Workshop Fan
5KiNg KOnG is king!
30%CGI Kong meets demure Ann
4Kong Rules!! if you have the time
51%Awesome
5GREAT!!!!
5KING KONG AND GODZILLA: SERIES LISTS
40%Great Movie, horrible packaging
51%One of the best King Kong features ever made
50%Remake does Credit Original
20%Too long...needs editing
50%King Kong Deluxe Extended Limited Edition DVD Gfit Set
51%Naomi Watts - one of the most beautiful women on Earth!
20%Falls flat
31%a little too good
51%King Kong
51%Technical Information
50%KING BONG !
40%WOW WOW KONG IN HD-DVD....BL....OW ME AWAY
51%As Good a Remake as You'll Ever See!
50%The ultimate King Kong
51%With Jackson, longer is better
51%GREAT DVD
40%Despite Being Too Long Still Delivers Emotionally
21%Not really needed
51%Breathtaking
41%When Kong got to the top of the Empire State Building, at least for a few minutes, he was the king...
20%Visually stunning; you'll want to be stunned
30%Excellent Example of HD
50%king kg king kog wooo hooo
51%Great Movie
41%3-Disc Extended vs. 2-Disc Theatrical
50%One of, if not the, best films of 2005 - Kong rocks
4A good remake
31%King Kong Misses The Boat....Barely
31%Potentiallly Great Movie Undone By Excess
41%A heart-breaking love story
40%An effects laden movie that also has a soul
41%King Kong missed the mark and here's why...
50%A 'must buy' for Kong fans.
41%A wonderful KONG which still can't touch the original
51%never fear, king kong is here!
41%King Kong is Gigantic Film Making
50%"Mourning" Star
10%Great movie, bad price!
51%An exhaustive and extensive Deluxe Edition!
31%Excellent movie and reference quality HD treatment, but...
10%This film should have been put out of it's misery!
51%Excellent Movie, Excellent HD DVD
51%Completely unexpected.
50%Amazing, Beautiful, Heartfilled
41%Beautiful, Unusual - And Yet Too Big For Its Own Good
51%Added Scenes are Fun
50%TXMoose is crazy
30%Disappointed
51%KONG IS KING
20%Unnecessarily Epic...
31%Great movie, but...
50%ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS EVER MADE! THE EXTENDED VERSION IS EVEN BETTER
50%A breathtaking epic
30%Best Edition
40%waiting for the more deluxe blu-ray version
30%Impressive picture but lacking action...
41%Review for 3 Disc Extended Edition
10%Awful
20%Now a longer version of a movie that was too long?
30%Not even close to great
10%Visually stunning. But a terriable movie
40%Almost Great
30%Got it early.
31%Lacks Features
50%a truly wonderful love story...
50%Great Movie!
50%King Kong-Review
30%Had some really good moments but too many over the top craziness
20%Huge ape, huge dissapointment
10%6 hour video game with no redeeming moments
4Great film, but long film.
20%A Non-Epic Story With Epic Length Scenes
10%Like this movie needed to be any longer...
31%Entertaining, not great.
21%Skip The Three Hour Tour and Watch the Original in Half the Time
50%Fantastic
50%king kong
40%Bad or Good for Jackson...
50%Very Entertaining!
20%Bloated beyond belief
31%not quite sure how I feel
20%Desappointed.....
10%Longer???
51%Shocked by the monkey...
10%Oh my...
50%Yes, Beautiful......
40%THE NEW KING KONG
40%King Kong - remake
40%"Budget killed the Beast" KONG vs KONG
50%AWSOME!
20%peter jackson grinds the organ for a big dull monkey of a movie
30%Too long, too serious, good effects though
10%What has Peter Jakson Done!!!!????
20%boring and too long
51%A Giant of a movie
41%I' m on the top on the world, Ann!
20%WAY too long
21%Royally disappointing
50%King Kong is awesome
51%Another masterpiece by Peter Jackson
21%Where's an editor when you need one.
50%Peter Jackson's most superb movie!
20%Slow, technically primative and insipid
31%"It was movie length killed the Beast" ***
41%A Good Movie That Would Have Been Better if it was Shorter
51%A more Realistic Beauty and the Beast Love Story with Fantastic Special Effects
40%It was beauty killed the beast!
40%Worth seeing once
21%Just not worth it. What a MISCAST bomb.
41%tHE eXtra that make the difference....
51%This is why we made popcorn
51%King kong and king kong...
51%Does much Justice to the former version!
10%Bad Language
10%Worst movie I've seen in a long time
21%Jackson should have watched the original
10%bad movie 3 hrs wasted
51%King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition (3-disc)...beats its chest to DVD November 14, 2006
20%OH, I GET IT! A PARODY OF THE ORIGINAL!! VERY FUNNY!!!
41%The original is still the best
21%TOOOOO drawn out Long
50%King Kong
51%SOOOOO good...
10%No Progress in 73 years.
50%WOW!
31%Extra! Read All About It: "Big Ape KO'd by Big Apple"
41%King Kong
41%One enjoyably entertaining remake with some plot holes
41%A Remarkable Remake
50%lovely tale of beauty and the beast
50%Kong is King
11%GARBAGE!!!
30%a pretty cool movie
31% Starring Special Effects, Cinematography, and a Radiant Watts
21%A Dissapointment In Every Aspect
51%Very Funny Rendition of an Old Movie
21%A clean miss
51%Beautiful...
40%kong review
5A WINNER!!
41%"Sulking Scene" Edited Out -- Too Bad!
40%King Kong's triple dinosaur fight was amazing!
51%Amazing!!!
31%Let go
21%A story to service the effects, not effects to service a story
51%Kong, The Eighth Wonder Of The World!
51%Very underrated
21%Yet Another Decent 2-Hour Movie Lost Inside A 3-Hour Pseudo-Epic
31%Dramamine Please....
40%Good Movie
21%coulda been great
40%peter jackson is the best
51%Kong Is Still A Legend
20%Too Long and Too Slow!
31%King Long!!! How much more footage do you need?
51%King Kong: a Fanboy's Rational Review
51%Despite its flaws, the best blockbuster of 2005
41%Amazing
21%Long, Long, Long... and Jack Black Can't Act
31% Too Much Monkey Business
51%Long, with sad ending , but truly fantastic!
41%Long, but better than expected
51%Wow, a great movie!
31%Visually Appealing, Way Too Long
50%A Giant Of A Movie
51%Long but worth every minute
21%Bad acting, Bad cast, Way Too Long!!!!!
31%Mindless Eye Candy and CGI Overkill
50%King Kong Remade!!!!!!!
21%Too long, too sentimental, over-acted
50%Couldn't Finish It...
21%When does this movie end? Oh my, are those crickets?
11%I cannot believe people say this is brilliant
50%A beautiful, epic masterpiece by the master Peter Jackson!
30%Godspeed King Kong
11%Awful CGI fest
40%Very good but a little over the top in places
50%The Monkey Breaks Your Heart
40%Well done, but I'm Topped off
50%Genius
40%An incredible remake
50%Wow..
50%best telling of this story yet
40%Very Impressed
50%There isn't mouch i can say the movie speaks for itself
31%so-so
40%Long but better than many that last half as long
50%King Kong Lives!
50%Long, but worth it. Jurrasic Park and all other Kongs are history.
11%Overrated
50%KING KONG--JAW-DROPPING Movie
40%King Kong (2-Disc Widescreen Special Edition)
11%I want my 3 hours back
11%Tedious, pointless, and yeah, unbelievable
20%well, it's not terrible
30%It really wasn't all that !!!
50%Brilliant metaphor for Western imperialism
40%King Kong
51%Modern Classic
40%Long but a fun flick
50%THIS IS MY JAM, DOG!
10%....other then that its perfect.
40%Pure silliness, but in a good way
41%Just a Small Reminder
51%Tale of a grand, majestic and magnanamous king of apes
10%I can't be the only one that feels this way?
41%Inspired and brilliant remake of the classic film
50%Who Was That Gorilla, Anyway?
40%Get to Skull Island already!
11%Peter Jackson's Awful Remake of King Kong
51%Kong Rules
51%For the love of Kong.
40%Great but Smug
11%Worst Movie Ever
30%Ruined by Jack Black
40%Pretty good but way too long.
41%The Ultimate Kong!
20%I know you want to, but DON'T DO IT!!!!
40%About 20 minutes was worth watching
51%Packed with action
30%Very entertaining effects and engaging characters, lame plot
31%well the savages were pretty cool
41%Very good, but not great.
21%Much too long
21%Nice Try
51%amazing
40%Jack Black, you must be kidding~!
30%Kong Falls Short
41%Best Kong Effects Of The Three
51%Epic, amazing, and sad
21%Too much of a CGI fest
31%Modern Day Masterpiece or Post-Millenium Muck-Up?
30%It had the potential to be a great movie!
41%"He Was a King in the World He Knew."
51%Have we really all become so jaded?
51%Excellent Entertainment
31%I expected a masterpiece....
20%I must be missing something
51%Peter Jackson, the real King
30%Great Start, Bad Finish!
30%A big monkey, not such a big film
51%Standing atop a heaping pile of...
30%Nothing new
51%Outstanding!!!
51%Loved IT!!!
30%Kill Kong, Please...
51%Prepare for scary bugs, native people, chest beating, and possibly crying. Because we are shipping off to "Singapore" today.
51%Absolutely amazing
51%A Fantastic Movie, A Heartbreaking Story
51%King Kong,best remake ever!
10%One of the worst movies I have ever seen
11%Stick with the 1930s original!
10%the best computer graphics!
51%I think this will be THE version of the King Kong story for decades to come
21%Mediocrity and the Beast
51%Simply Amazing
50%A Great Rmake & More Fun Than Barrel Of Monkeys
40%Kinga Konga
31%What's wrong witth this Kong? (and right)
50%Naysayers have short attention span.
21%King Kong...Too Long
41%4.5 stars for 21st Century Kong
31%The directors cut should be one hour shorter!
21%A soulless film about special FX
11%The (pathetically) growling fake 30's
10%Two thumbs up your butt...
51%Justice Has Been Done
41%It Was Beauty Killed The Beast...
51%Hail to the Kong
11%One of worst movies I have ever seen
51%Could you or anybody else really have made this any better...
31%The reason I gave it only 3 stars.
51%A few, brief hokey moments, but otherwise, Wow!
11%A new low for film making
11%Peter Jackson and Universal ripoff
21%unnecessary do-over
20%Save the Ape, kill this movie....
10%There's only one Kong
50%A Modern Day Masterpiece
4Great Cast, Credible Emotions, & a More-Than-Generous Assortment of Monsters.
50%Depressing but Good
5spectacular!
21%Dull
51%Should u buy the 2-disc Special Edition or not?
41%Great Remake
10%What a waste of time!!
41%Great movie, Slow Beginning, Good Special Effects
5Peter Jackson's made yet another 5 Star Movie....
40%Jackson's Passion
30%Too Long
3Super Size It
21%Qualifies As A Rent But Don't Buy
31%Not a complete disappointment
11%king kong
31%Is this movie still going?
41%An impressive film well served on DVD
51%Great Film: Debatable Extras on the SE
10%3 hours too long
20%This is a major bore!
51%Visually Spectacular
40%Great movie, but Jackson should keep his views to himself
20%Too Long, Too Hollywood, Too Slow!!
40%Lord of the Apes
21%You're Kidding, Right?
5Awesome movie, unbelievable effects, very sad, but sooo long!
5King Kong, A Remake Worth Seeing
5outstanding
4The Ape is Amazing
31%A Tale of 2 Movies. 75 out of 100.
30%Could have been great, but way overdone
20%Good in parts, but too long.
5This is a true classic!
10%Do not buy it - rent it!
50%Theatrical Epic
10%You know...Some People didn't see the original King Kong!!
40%Too much Hollywood
41%A King of a Movie
41%Good Stuff, worthy of a 4.5
11%Did we all see the same movie?
50%Completely Amazing!
11%Had to turn it off
40%Beauty Kills The Beast......A Third Time
50%Great Movie
5Surprisingly I loved it
21%Fails to impress a REAL King Kong fan!
21%For the rather undiscriminating filmgoers
21%King Bomb
10%I hated this movie.
51%Not what I expected...
41%Finally... a Movie for movie fans!
50%KING KONG 2005 - -- One of the greatest adventure/accion movies in years!
21%long, over the top
10%Boring
51%Surpasses the original in every way
4Very Good Remake
50%A little different from the theatrical version
20%Too, too long -- Adrien Brody as the macho hero?
20%3 Wasted hours
50%GREAT ( LONG) MOVIE!
31%Can't Fault the Special Effects, But...
51%Fantastic
20%The Aperor Has No Clothes
51%A REMAKE THAT HONORS THE ORIGINAL!
20%My time wasn't completely wasted...
3Rent for now, buy DVD later...
5Kong....."The Eighth Wonder of the World".........
31%Not so sure
51%Way better than i thought it would be
31%Kong, Kong, Kong of the Jungle
40%Good, but not great film
51%A classic Revisited
41%"The Saddest Movie I've Ever Seen!"
50%Ladies and gentlemen..I give you KONG !!.the eighth wonder of the WORLD!!!
41%A great movie stuck in a merely good one...
41%More of a rental than a purchase...
40%Kong, the Miniseries
51%Exhilirating visually, strangely affecting emotionally
21%Just another bad idea whose time had come
50%haha
51%King Kong Rules!!
11% Soon every movie in the world will look like a video game, and no one will care
41%The reason that it is a masterpiece
20%What is the Point of this Movie
31%Good but too long
30%Great movie, lame dvd
10%Remake Of A Remake
50%Did Jackson Best the Original?
30%Was This Remake Necessary?
41%And the Oscar for best actor goes to...King Kong!
4A Surprisingly Good Movie!
10%What A Joke! And not even a funny one!
51%Excellent remake of an already excellent movie
20%Nothing left to the imagination anymore
51%21st century classic
31%King Kong a LOVE Story???
41976 Kong, see ya, finally the real kong......................
40%Not bad Peter Jackson
41%How the heck do you get a 50 ton monkey on a ship with half a crew?
11%Wretched Excess
51%The word would be EXCELLENT,
4RemaKing Kong
51%Nearly Overwhelming
51%Beauty Killed the Beast
20%Go Big or Go Home
50%One of My Favorites
41%It was not beauty that killed the beast but length
20%This Version of King Kong is Nothing to go Ape Over
51%KING OF THE KONGS
20%JUST A REVIVAL
5I laughed, I cried, I had one helluva good time!
5very good movie
4Beautiful love story - and horror film.
30%Great action; silly melodrama
50%EPIC, to say the least
10%THE WORST MOVIE MADE !!!
20%NO NEED TO BUY, AND I"LL TELL YOU WHY... :)
51%An Excellent Motion Picture!
31%HUGE PLOT DETAIL MISSING?
5King Kong is Back!!!
4A Visual Feast!!
51%We're going to need a BIGGER CHAIN
30%THE ORIGINAL WAS BETTER
5The BEST Kong yet!
10%By the time you get to the ape who gives a !@#$%&*
5terrific!!
30%Almost a Dud
31%DVD Should Have Been Released in DTS/EX Sound
51%A great, if slightly imperfect remake of the classic.
4A Visual and Audio Feast
10%Even Kong Sized Messes clean up EZ with Glad ForceFlex!
11%Alone in an Audience of the Blind
10%Bunch of Junk
4Mixture of feelings and emotions
20%Overlong, slack and indulgent
10%First review....had to try a lower this.
40%Let's not get carried away.
40%Kong Kong
4The 8th wonder of the world.....
10%horrible special effects
50%Great Movie, Made for theathers but still amazing on DVD!
58th wonder of the world!
4Third time's a charm for Kong...
51%Peter Jackson is a master...
30%Not Peter Jackson's Fault
5Very Captivating and Lifelike
41%What? No commentary?!
4The Lord of the Apes
40%remake can't hold a candle to the original, but still a good try
51%Magnificent
30%3.5; it's exciting, slow, cool and silly all at the same time
51%Amazing adventure film raises the bar
50%My favorite movie of 2005 and maybe an all-time favorite
50%This movie ROARs success!
51%Peter Jackson's "King Kong" - One of the best films of 2005!
10%...because these's no "zero" star rating.
51%Jackson's epic retelling of Kong a gem even if it has a few rough spots 4 1/2 stars
3Uneven, but entertaining.
40%Not as good as it could
41%Great Production...but faulty casting
51%KING KONG HAS IT ALL - TOP RATE ENTERTAINMENT
40%The King is back...
51%...and we will donate the proceeds to his family !
40%For the first time...
30%It's ok
30%Fast Forward To Skull Island, Watch, Then Eject Disc
30%Jackson's King Kong - A very good movie
20%Not Jackson's best work
50%Utterly Incredible!
30%DVD release less than spectacular
31%Pretty Good Stuff
20%Monkey business
4IT'S RAINING MONKEYS... HALLELUJAH!!!!
50%Great movie and can't wait for an extended edition!!
31%King Kong - A Masterpiece?
50%Can it get better! No!
20%Time for a reality check.
51%Fay Wray would be proud!
51%A Piece of Brilliance
50%King Kong - Best Movie I Have Ever Seen
51%Incredible: Early Review
41%Almost perfect
41%Great! Simply put.
30%Big, noisy, and long
20%Overblown Hype: Big-time Disappointment Here
51%New Kong is a Giddy Masterpiece!
51%deliver exatly as promissed
50%Definitely worth watching
51%Amazing Film.
50%Watch out Steven Spilburg!
30%Jackson Needs to Learn that Films can be Under Three Hours!!
30%Good movie, but...
40%JJ Rambo
40%Best King Kong ever
51%incredible and fantastic!!!
21%No Deleted Scenes !?!
51%Excellent a great epic full of action and romance..One of the best of 2005
40%Good Movie But not Peter Jacksons Best
40%Perhaps if I didn't know what was going to happen.
30%More Kong Needed
51%I love long movies
10%not the king
40%much above my expectation
50%Long, But Great
20%Boring
40%Jose writes
2MOVIE STARTS OUT GREAT......BUT DISSAPOINTING
30%It's too long
51%A great remake of the original king kong.You will love this.the movie had great visual detail and special effects.
51%"True tribute to the King"
51%King of All Movies!!!
51%The most Expensive B-MOVIE ever made - worth every dime!!
51%The Best Combination of Special Effects And Filmmaking Magic Since Titanic
30%Jackson overdid it
10%bad
10%Terrible Movie
51%Excellent
51%Wraps itself around you like an embrace.
10%Silly and Too Dramatic
20%Overrated
51%I'll be interested to see the DVD sales numbers
30%KONG 1933 vs. KONG 2005
51%Best Movie of the Year
51%The Best Kong to Date
30%Not The Best Remake.....
50%I GUESS BETTER AN WAIT THEN SORRY!
51%Fantastic
51%jackson, you do no wrong
20%Cinematic Nonsense
21%King Long
51%KONG THE EIGTH WONDER OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
40%Would have recieved 5 stars....but...
50%love it
40%LONG KONG
40%Going Ape For King Kong
50%Beautiful...Touching....A Masterpiece
10%Not worth the hype...
10%King Bore
30%I could have cut about 40 minutes
50%Beautiful
51%Jackson stikes again!
50%As Big As It Gets
31%Peter Jackson's vision of King Kong
50%About the human actors in this film
40%Unfocused but Awesome
10%0 Stars if Possible... Just Plain Sucks
20%Did we see the same movie?
51%FLAWLESS!! The most underrated blockbuster ever!
51%The Eighth Wonder Of The World
50%FANTASTIC!!!
51%Amazing Spectacle
30%Not Bad but very disappointing
50%Good good movie
51%MAGNIFICENT! FANTASTIC! SPECTACULAR!
30%What?????
51%Awesome From Start To Finish; Thrilling And Moving
51%Best of the Three Versions
50%King Kong is King of All Motion Pictures
51%Peter Jackson is the God of Blockbusters. Period.
51%Awesome! Jackson and co. have done it again.
41%King Kong: A Delicate Balance Between Amazing and Too Much...
51%A Magnificent Epic
51%A fantastic Kong
51%WOW!!
41%A very epic and memorable film
51%Beautiful
51%Beautiful, emotional, exciting, and just a bit too long
51%Peter Jackson the Master
51%THE BEST VERSION EVER
30%Get me out of this jungle
41%Almost Perfect Grand-Scale Entertainment
51%Arguably the finest remake in Hollywood history
51%A triumphal achievement in adventure filmmaking, if a little bloated
50%ABSOLUTELY MARVELOUS !
51%I N C R E D I B L E
10%Kong gone wrong!
51%Best all around action movie I have seen in ages!
51%Terrific!
51%An Overwhelmingy Gigantic Cinematic Feast
51% An epic masterpiece remake! Fabulous job Peter!
30%uneven spectacle that leads up to a splendid finale
41%Better Than It Should Have Been
30%Great effects. Unnecessarily long. Boring at times.
51%new iconic monster movie!!!
20%Absurd, But On The Other Hand, Really Long...
40%Not a Bad Film but Peter Jackson seriously needs an editor!
40%Nice Monkey!
50%5 stars is an understatment, This should have 10 stars!!!
50%AN INSTANT CLASSIC!
41%King again
51%Amazing Adventure Where Primal Instincts Converge with the Civilized World...
21%The movie that wants it both ways
20% Goes by faster than you'd think.
20%A silly, expensive cartoon
51%A movie that beats on it's chest and roars!
50%The horrifying and the sublime
50%Peter did good
10%Don't Bother
51%Kong Is King.
40%Honorable update of venerable classic -- and thrill ride, too!
40%Inevitable but Unnecessary
30%Great ape, great ape, great huge crazy ape
31%The good, the bad ang the ugly
50%Excellent ! You'll fall in love with the gorilla!
40%"I give you....KONG!"
50%Best movie I've seen this year
50%King Kong
50%Well Done Peter Jackson!
51%Epic Popcorn Entertainment Borders on Excess But Succeeds and Resonates Unexpectedly
50%The Return Of The King...KONG, That Is
40%Up & Down
30%Could have been great
31%Jack Black horribly miscast
40%Not quite King but good fun
51%Truly amazing
41%ALMOST GREAT..........but still pretty grand!!!!
30%a reason people went ape over this
10%Lord of the Rings Part IV
10%Evolution/Devolution
10%Worse remake than Planet of the Apes, Godzilla, or Oh.. Just any of them
51%Jackson's body of work is evidence that one day, fanboys will rule the world
20%Eye candy with not much depth
51%five stars are definitely not enough!
51%Best movie of 2005
51% Kong is the new King
51%Awesome
51%4.5. Blah title blah
51% "It's not an adventure story, is it, Mr. Hayes?"
51%A Cinematic Extravaganza
50%I wish I could give it a billion stars!!!!!!
10%What was the purpose?
51%Best in YEARS!!!
40%Flawed and pretentious, yet highly entertaining (marry me, Naomi Watts)
41%Yes, The King Is Back and So Is 1933 New York
30%Too Much of a Good Thing
51%Too much of a good thing?
31%Jeff Scott
50%Re-mastering the masterpiece... I give to you... Jackson!!! The eighth wonder of the world!!
41%Wonderful effects, but too long.
51%Heartbreaking
41%Too Long but heartbreaking
10%Another remake of another dull movie
51%PETER DID IT AGAIN!
11%Jackson's amazing ignorance
51%Kong, The Final Chapter. This One Cannot Be Re-made.
51%One of the most exciting heart touching movies ever made
51%Amazing! Spectacular! Heartwrenching!
30%Peter Jackson's vision of King Kong
41%Jackson did it
30%Good--But Does Not Match the One and Only
41%Great But Not Quite Five Stars
4It was good!
30%It's true...love really is all you need!
51%Fine work once again by Jackson
41%Of brutes and men
5Amazing
30%Nothing New Here
10%This Film Is So Vile, It Literally Made Me Feel Sick!
50%One of the BEST remakes of all time!
51%A great remake!
30%Did anyone ever consider redoing the Mona Lisa???
41%A good fantasy movie
51%Better than I thought it would be!
31%An ok movie
50%Looking Forward to the DVD Extended Version
50%One of the Best Fims Made
21%Thud, thud, thud
21%Special Effects and not much else...
51%An Awesome Spectacle!
51%Freakin' Amazing
10%Send Peter Jackson Into New Zealand Exile for this Monstrous Kong!
20%Peter Jackson needs to look up the word editor in the dictionary.
40%THE GORILLA IN KONG MADE HIM DO IT !!
50%A wild ride
21%Special effects in need of decent characters...
31%Fun Remake Marred by Overkill
51%Fantastic - Fabulous - Sublime
30%And The Monkey Proclaimed: O Drama
50%5 stars NOTHING LESS!
40%A Blockbuster Film With A Few Problems
41%Gorgeous Epic - But not what it could have been.
51%Now THIS is how a remake should be made!
40%Great movie, FAR TOO LONG!!!!
10%"It was boredom killed the film"
4I like this King Kong . . . . !!
50%Go ape over Kong!
10%Waste of time
41%King Kong
51%Every woman needs a little 'thug' in their lives.
40%Truly outstanding
20%Don't Be Fooled by the Long Reviews. Short and Sweet!
30%Miscasting Jack Black in a relentless graphical epic
41%The Moose Hole - 'King' of the World!
30%fair...
20%King Kong: the eighth wonder of the world? Hardly. But it certainly made me wonder...
50%Beauty Killed The Beast.
51%Long Live the King
5Re-imagining Kong
50%Impressive!
51%Beauty still kills the beast, but this time she also tries to save him
51%Definitely one of the best movie experiences of the year!
51%An incredible, stunning movie! Peter Jacksons' new...
10%5 Stars? Don't think so.
51%King Kong Trilogy.....A comparison
51%The year's best BIG movie!!
51%Fit for a KING!
40%This Beast Is A Beauty. Warts And All.
5KING KONG ROCKS
50%Climbing The Summit, Daring The Fall.
3King Kong...
20%Too much.
51%Visually stunning -- however it could have been edited for time
50%One of the best movies ever made.
50%Amazing...
50%King Kong - undoubtedly, it rightfully donns the dubbious title of Movie of the Year!!!
50%Oh, Please DO go ape over this one.
50%"King Kong" is brilliant!
50%The eighth wonder of the World...
51%I was most pleasantly surprise
41%A Date With a Gorilla!
5An Amazing Accomplishment On Peter Jackson's Part Enjoys Some Added Footage & Some Incredible Special Features
50%Epic yet suprisingly intimate
4Stuffed with incredible adventure (and just plain overstuffed, too)
40%Excellent Action And Romance
40%Long-Winded Tribute
40%It was good
41%KONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
50%Magnificent, if imperfect, maybe not for young kids
20%I tried to like it, I really did.
20%Now if only the other actors were CGI too...
40%Better than expected...
30%Not a Good Date Movie
4Four and a half stars. A perfect film hindered by its running time
10%No Titanic
41%Great movie, just a little drawn out.
30%Never seen the original before but ...
40%A non-stop rollercoaster ride....
50%What an amazing movie
30%Nothing To Go Apes Over
20%How to squeeze an entertaining 90 minutes into 3 hours...
4King Kong lives
4Peter Jackson's Kong - several great scenes
51%tremendous!!!
50%Well worth your time
20%Konged Out
51%Peter Jackson is King!
51%A Staggering Cinematic Achievement
50%A Fantastic and Touching Spectacle!
30%its ok has many flaws
50%The eighth wonder of the world
10%Hey Peter! Not every film has to be three hours long!
51%A Grand, Sprawling Mess of a Flick
41%A classic remade into a classic
5Going Ape in NYC
50%an emotional experience on steroids
30%Not Peter Jackson's Best...But Not Bad
51%Best of the Year!
50%Hail to the King!
20%High Expectations.......Low Results
40%Watts = yes... Black = no... Otherwise 5 stars! Awesome!
4BIG AND LONG
40%Phenominal and Beautiful... but not without its faults
50%Excellent Remake!
40%Very good! Excellent execution!
10%Looking to WASTE 3 hours?
51%Peter Jackson's "King Kong"...Yes, It's That GOOD!
51%KING KONG, say hello to Oscar!
51%Fabulous movie.
10%A disaster
30%A wonder of 2005
5Incredible!
51%Peter Jackson is a genius storyteller!
51%True to the original version
51%One word - astonishing.
51%Fascinating material, but the Extended Version is a mixed blessing.
51%Effects bonanza delivers a high class B-movie
30%MONKEY STOLE THE SHOW
5Epic retelling of an american classic.
51%Still The Best
51%One "King" to rule them all..... King Kong
51%HAIL to THE KING baby!!!
4Jackson's visually stunning and beauftiful version of King Kong
51%Magnificent!
41%What going to the movies is all about.
51%A Masterpiece
51%Beautiful
50%Awesome!
51%The Ultimate Popcorn Muncher
50%THIS KONG IS KING!!!
50%The Greatest Movie of all Time
51%FIVE FRESH BANANAS OUT OF FIVE
50%This is awesome
51%Jackson's Soulful, Spunky, Spectacular Labor of Love
51%Long Live the King!
51%KING KONG-Still the Champ
41%Wow......................... I Think
51%THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR
30%KING KONG Uncut Version
51%Better Than The Original!!!
51%The 8th Wonder of the World is One of the Years BEST films.
50%The movie is just plain EPIC
41%King Kong get his girl to care...
50%There's just too many good things to say about this movie!
51%Peter Jackson does it again - the definitive Kong
50%Peter the King
51%'King Kong', Another Masterpiece From Jackson
10%Whatever happened to movies?
20%Thumbs Down. I wanted to like it so badly !
30%Good entertainment!
30%Hail to the new King!
50%King Kong Towers Above the Competition
21%Baffling
50%Don't Believe Reviews until Dec. 14th.
50%Action movie by Peter Jackson
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