Fledgling film maker Carl Denham is preparing to voyage to a lost island where he is sure he will be able to get great footage for his new feature. He recruits out of work vaudeville performer, Ann Darrow, as his leading lady and tricks playwright Jack Driscoll into joining them as well.
They set sail with their cast and crew for Skull Island where they discover an ancient world filled with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures including King Kong himself. Denham's team is captured by a tribe that inhabits the island and Darrow is offered up to Kong as a sacrifice.
Denhan, Driscoll, and the others, set off to rescue Ann and escape the island. But Driscoll see's an opportunity to become enormously rich with an attraction bigger than any movie - Kong. They capture the mighty beast and bring him back with them to New York where things don't exactly go as planned.
Peter Jackson's 2005 re-telling of this 1933 classic stays pretty true to the original. Naturally it does feature fancy new special effects and CGI that would have been impossible in the original or even the first remake, but the story remains the same. They even incorporated in the bug pit scene which was cut from the original film by the censors. Kong's battle with the T-Rex and his rampage through New York are pretty great as well. Plus as great as the original was, it did come with some pretty unsavory racism and sexism which is cut from this version as well. It doesn't look like this version of Kong will spawn any sequels, but it did bring a pretty cool video game and a fantastic extended edition DVD along with it. A solid remake, worth checking out.
4.5 giant leeches out of 5
Rated PG-13 for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images.
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