Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Skunkyrate Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Stephen Abell It took a long time to make a sequel to the remake of King Kong from 1979... and I can see why... lack of a decent story. And it's the story and ropy special effects that hurt this film.So the movie opens with the ending of the 1979 remake; Kong's fall from the tower. However, he doesn't die. As the years pass the doctors realise his heart is failing and his blood is poisoned. They could fit an artificial heart but without a transfusion, Kong will die. Enter Hank Mitchell (Kerwin), who whilst exploring the African continent comes across a second giant gorilla... phew, just in time to save the plotline... Even better for the plot, the ape is female. Against the lead doctor's advice, Amy Franklin (Hamilton), the college assigned to study Kong ship the female across, instead of just taking her blood. Of course, when you put two giant apes together, of different genders, things are bound to get amorous and frisky. As with humans, love and lust can drive apes to do desperate deeds. However, instead of running amuck, the apes settle down to domestic bliss... which totally upsets Lt Col Nevitt as he has some really expensive weapons to play with... and Goddamnit, he's gonna play with them and so sets out to destroy the happy couple.Okay, so I'm making light of the story plot, but hey, that, in a nutshell, is the story. For a creature feature, there's way too many scenes of Mr & Mrs K sitting around picking racoons off of each other. Also, the fact that it's two men in Gorilla costumes is so evident it's laughable, especially today. This section of the film doesn't wear well after an age. However, it's the other effects that add strength to the action sequences of the film. The fight scenes between apes and army are well done and are paced so well as to actually be exciting.The other thing that carries the film is the acting. Though the leads, Brian Kerwin and Linda Hamilton are very good in their roles, it was John Ashton as Nevitt that made this film for me.I'd not really recommend this film to anybody. To be truthful, the original movie is still superb and better than this, let alone the Peter Jackson Remake and the latest action flick Kong: Skull Island, both of which are superior in every way. Though if you like your monster movies with a heavy dose of cheesiness then maybe you can give this a go... it does have it's good points.

The_Depressed_Star_Wars_fan King Kong get's a heart transplant and even finds a girl his own size in KING KONG LIVES!! Well lets start with the positive elements. Well the Gorrilla costumes look great, the actors aren't that bad,....and that's it.Now on to the negative aspects. The story is a mess. Certain scenes come out of no were and contribute nothing to the story, the characters are forgettable, and some plot points are rather poorly written. Although the gorilla suits are great, the sound effects for them are a mixed bag. King Kong's roar sounds good, but Lady Kong's roar sounds like a guy making random, poorly executed growl sounds.......which is probably what it is.In the end this is a very boring picture, not recommend by any means.

lastliberal Now, don't make the mistake in thinking that this is a work of art. This film follows the tradition of the great Godzilla movies made in Tokyo. If you like those, you will like this film.It has it all - rednecks, sex, the Army, and Kong himself. No, he didn't die when he fell from the skyscraper. He has been in a coma for the last 10 years.The NRA may tell us that hunters want to preserve the population of animals for all to enjoy, but the rednecks in this film do a disservice to the organization. There was a sense of satisfaction when Kong snapped one in two like a twig, and ate another whole -- redneck poppers! Linda Hamilton is always a joy, and she did a good job here as a scientist wanting to save Kong.Kong doesn't make it, but he manages to hook up with a female and after a quickie in the bushes, they have a son. Yeah, they really stretched that, didn't they.It is just the think to watch on a Saturday afternoon with a bowl of popcorn.

Aaron1375 Why they felt a sequel was needed to the King Kong remake of the 1970's is beyond me. That one was not all that great and did not perform all that great at the box office. Granted, this sequel is a less ambitious movie than that one and the effects are pure Japanese monster movies as it is mainly a guy in a rubber suit. The story is really off the wall as a female Kong is found and the old King Kong is revived with a fake heart of all things. Kind of a waste of millions of dollars to make a giant fake heart for a giant gorilla that for all purposes should be dead. Linda Hamilton plays the strange and mentally challenged person who makes the heart for the gorilla that can cause major damage if revived and since she is in it I am giving it one more star than I would have otherwise. That and the scenes of King Kong in a bloody mess are rather good too. However, the ending is just really lame and the special effects cheapness really shine through near the end of this piece.