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King Kong (2005)
Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Colin Hanks, Kyle Chandler
Screenwriter: Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh
Story: Merian C. Cooper, Edgar Wallace
Producer: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson
Composer: James Newton Howard
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 11, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- 3-Disc Snap Case With Slip Sleeve
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
- Subtitles - English (SDH), Spanish, French - Optional
- Disc 1: KING KONG PART 1
Additional Release Material:
- Deleted Scenes - 16 Deleted Scenes
- Feature Commentary - Peter Jackson - Producer/Director/Writer; Philippa Boyens - Co-Writer/Producer
- Disc 2: KING KONG PART 2
Additional Release Material:
- Feature Commentary - Feature Commentary - Peter Jackson - Producer/Director/Writer; Philippa Boyens - Co-Writer/Producer
- Featurette - 1. THE EIGHTH BLUNDER OF THE WORLD
- 2. THE PRESENT
- 3. A NIGHT IN VAUDEVILLE
- 4. KING KONG HOMAGE
- Trailers
- WETA Collectables
- Disc 3: THE KING KONG ARCHIVES
- INTRODUCTION BY PETER JACKSON
- Featurette - 1. THE ORIGINS OF KING KONG
- 2. PRE-PRODUCTION PART 1: THE RETURN OF KONG
- 3. PRE-PRODUCTION PART 2: COUNTDOWN TO FILMING
- 4. THE VENTURE JOURNEY
- 5. RETURN TO SKULL ISLAND
- 6. NEW YORK, NEW ZEALAND
- 7. BRINGING KONG TO LIFE PART 1: DESIGN AND RESEARCH
- 8. BRINGING KONG TO LIFE PART 2: PERFORMANCE AND ANIMATION
- 9. THE 1996 KING KONG VIDEO GALLERY
- 10. THE VENTURE VIDEO GALLERY
- 11. SKULL ISLAND VIDEO GALLERY
- 12. NEW YORK VIDEO GALLERY
- 13. KONG VIDEO GALLERY
- 14. ARRIVAL AT SKULL ISLAND PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC
- 15. BRONTO STAMPEDE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC
- 16. T-REX FIGHT PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC
- 17. KONG'S CAPTURE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC
- 18. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING BATTLE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC
- 19. ANN DISARMS KONG MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON
- 20. KONG'S CAPTURE MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON
- 21. KONG IN NEW YORK MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON
- 22. DVD CREDITS
DVD-ROM:
- 1996 AND 2005 SCRIPTS
Reviews
With a superb cast, terrific special effects and stunning action sequences, this is one of the best films of the year - thrilling, awe-inspiring and genuinely moving.
Spectacular, clumsy, hilarious, ludicrously self-indulgent, terrifying and far too long, Peter Jackson's remake of the 1933 classic is a monster in every sense.
This remake is thrilling on every level. Even if it's also rather self-indulgent.
A hugely enjoyable, eye-popping movie that pushes all the right buttons.
That Jackson’s King Kong upgrades the now hammy original with wit, heart and humour is a pleasant surprise. That it does so by reinventing the action blockbuster, in form and emotional impact, is nothing less than an act of cinematic alchemy.
I wish Jackson would shake off his addiction to gigantism, his apparent need to punch everything up three times as much as it needs to be.
funny, frightening, romantic, nostalgic, moving and grimly fatalistic, it races along, like its central character, with a speed and grace that utterly belies its great size.
A phenomenal popcorn movie that eclipses the original in several respects, but inevitably owes a huge debt to the powerful imagery and innovation of the 1930s landmark.
This lackluster cure for insomnia might have been more palatable without so many distracting digressions and pared down to a manageable ninety minutes or so. Zzzz... Zzzz... Zzzz...
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