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King Kong (2005)

PG-1312/12/2005Adventure, Drama, Action3h 7m
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The eighth wonder of the world.

Overview

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

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    Naomi Watts

    Ann Darrow

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    Jack Black

    Carl Denham

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    Adrien Brody

    Jack Driscoll

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    Andy Serkis

    Kong / Lumpy

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    Colin Hanks

    Preston

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    Thomas Kretschmann

    Captain Englehorn

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    Jamie Bell

    Jimmy

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    Kyle Chandler

    Bruce Baxter

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    Evan Parke

    Hayes

05 is the worst of the Kong movies, mainly because it tries to do way too much. It tries to be epic, and because it tries to be epic it drags. DRAGS. Watching through it, there is about an hour and a half that I would cut, mostly because it's not necessary for a movie like this. There was character development... but too much of it. There was plot, but too much of it. If the movie was trimmed down with an eye to making it flow, it would have been decent. But instead they let it run too long with with not enough happening in it to be an exciting monster movie. The result was kind of a ...