I’m in love with an ape. A twenty-five foot ape to be exact. Peter Jackson did the impossible: he managed to make a re-make of King Kong that didn’t suck and not only did it not suck it is arguably the best King Kong re-make ever and can rival the original as the best King Kong movie ever. This is more Kong then you ever thought you’d need but in the end Jackson keeps you wanting more.

King Kong takes place in depression era New York, we’re given a glimpse of slums that resemble refugee camps, forced evictions and protestors that are marching against the deplorable living conditions. . A young actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) is employed, if you call performing in a low budget vaudeville show, in a theatre where the rent is due, where she hasn’t been paid in two weeks. Eventually the bottom falls out and Darrow is as unemployed as the rest of the populace.

As Ms. Darrow tries to figure out what she’s going to do about food Carl Denham (Jack Black) is underwhelming his producers with the footage of his latest film. Just as they let him no how they are not pleased, Denham informs them that not only is he in need of a ship to continuing filming but the ship will be taking the cast and crew to Singapore. The producers eighty-six the idea yet Denham hijacks the film, commandeers a ship only to find out his leading lady has pulled out of the project. Now he needs an actress who can wear a size four. You see where this is going.

Add to the cast a kidnapped writer (Adrien Brody), an egotistical actor (Kyle Chandler) and a skeptical, secretive crew and the stage is set for a lot of action and confrontation. While heavy on the exposition for the first hour King Kong turns into a wild rollercoaster ride of action and emotion and makes you feel like you’re a kid again, watching whatever cartoon or movie that made you lose all track of time and completely engulf you in whatever story was being told.

Some might argue that it’s all too much. As soon as you get over one heart stopping ride, Jackson cranks it all up again as the cast of characters finds themselves in yet another life threatening situation. Yes, it’s a bit over the top, but so is the idea of a twenty-five foot monkey falling in love with a blonde, blue eyed, willowy woman. Since the premise of the story is so over the top then the resulting film should be too and Jackson doesn’t disappoint. You get what you pay for and more. Yes it’s three hours long but I promise you there’s no better way to spend three hours.

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Jeff Herring wrote:

King Kong: King in My Book

The very first movie I took my oldest son to was George of the Jungle. I think he was about 4 at the time.

He was pretty amazed with the large stadium style theater. Just before the lights went out, he gave me a golden moment that I will treasure always when he looked up at me and said:

"Daddy, I like being with you."

7 years later

These memories came to me today as my oldest son and I sat in the exact same theater waiting for King Kong to begin. Before the movie started I told him the story of what he had said seven years earlier.

I knew going in that the Kong on the screen was computer animation. Even knowing that, this Kong looked so real, so life like.

Remember how real the dinosaurs looked in the Jurassic Park series? These dinos make those look like guys in a dino suit.

Many times when you see a fight or battle in a preview, you worry that you have seen all the good parts. Not so here. The battle between Kong and the T-Rex that you see in the preview lasts for at least ten minutes in the movie.

At the end of this and several scenes, you can hear the audience take a collective breath.

Picture the attention to detail of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy combined with the intensity of the first Jurassic Park.

At the end of the time on Skull Island, I found myself thinking that we have gotten to see all this and they have not even arrived in New York yet.

Even thought you know how it is going to end, it is still a great ride.

Rating: 5 out of 5 ticket stubs.

Toward the end of the movie, my 11 year old son grabs my arm, curls up next to me and says:

"Daddy, I like being with you."

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