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King Kong

(Special Edition Anamorphic Widescreen)

Starring: Naomi Watts; Adrien Brody; Jack Black; Colin Hanks & Kyle Chandler Director: Peter Jackson  Rated: Parents Strongly Cautioned for Children Under 13
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Format: DVD

Genre: Action & Adventure

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DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Snap Case With Outer Sleeve

Disc 1: KING KONG (2005)

    Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

    Audio:

    • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
    • Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional

    Additional Release Material:

    • Featurette 1. THE VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG & KING KONG

    Interactive Features:

    • See More of NYC in "Wish You Were Here"

Disc 2: KING KONG (2005)

    Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78

    Audio:

    • Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
    • Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional

    Additional Release Material:

    • Introduction by Peter Jackson
    • Featurette - 1. SKULL ISLAND: A NATURAL HISTORY
                       2. KONG'S NEW YORK, 1933

    Text/Photo Galleries:

    • Post Production Diaries

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 09/08/2005

"Jackson worked fresh magic at his Weta studios in his native New Zealand, where he had Kong do battle with prehistoric predators on Skull Island..."

Entertainment Weekly - 10/16/2005

"[T]he movie seals Jackson's reputation: He's the most gifted big-picture artist working today....What resonates is the story, which is a very human tale of compassion, greed, loss, bravery, creativity, foolishness, and love." -- Grade: A

New York Times - 12/14/2005

"[Jackson] succeeds through a combination of modesty and reckless glee, topping himself at every turn and reveling in his own showmanship."

USA Today - 12/13/2005

"Jackson is a visionary filmmaker who is not only a technical wizard but also a master storyteller."

Los Angeles Times - 12/12/2005

"[A] witty comment on the darkness at the heart of adventure stories, a bazillion-dollar spectacle that reserves the right to question the morality of spectacles, and, mostly, a tender love story about a melancholy girl and her tragically misunderstood monkey."

Entertainment Weekly - 12/30/2005

Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[I]t has a marvelous fairy-tale kinetic grandeur....KING KONG attains a primal-pop romantic glory..."

Sight and Sound - 02/01/2006

"Once in the lost world, Jackson reproduces the breathless pacing of the 1933 film, tipping from one huge set-piece to the next..."

Uncut - 05/01/2006

4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's made with love, care, and tremendous intelligence?.This is still a moving love story at heart..."

Widescreen Review - 06/01/2006

"[The] picture does a great job of creating the period of the storytelling....The fantastic mix is energetic and invigorating."

Product Description:

Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavory side of life, Peter Jackson has turned into an "event" filmmaker--someone who can conjure up a movie on a scale unlike anything we've seen before. KING KONG is his sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it is as big as the gorilla that runs riot through Jackson's rendering of Depression-era New York. Keeping the simple yet effective plot intact--a film crew travels to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up Kong, and brings him back to New York City--Jackson expands on this basic premise by drawing on the jaw-dropping talents of his special effects team to satisfy his thirst for the grand spectacle.

The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham, a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll, a hack playwright who battles Kong both physically and for Darrow's heart. As the men struggle against Kong and the lumbering dinosaurs of Skull Island, Andy Serkis, who made the character of Gollum so believable in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, steps in to form the facial features of the mighty gorilla, lending a real emotional sucker-punch to the scenes between Darrow and Kong. But it's the final third of the movie where Jackson really delivers; his 1930s New York is stunning, and when Kong breaks free from his shackles and stampedes on a lovelorn trek through the city, then iconically climbs the Empire State Building with his sweetheart, it's impossible to not be swept away by the sheer beauty and sadness of the moment. While its three-hour length may prove daunting to some, the payoff in Jackson's KING KONG is ultimately worth it, proving once again that he is a director of breathtaking vision.

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Production Notes:

  • Theatrical Release: December 14, 2005

Cast and Crew:

Starring Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Colin Hanks & Kyle Chandler
Directed by Peter Jackson
Produced by Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fran Walsh & Peter Jackson
Edited by Jamie Selkirk & Jabez Olssen
Screenwriting by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens & Fran Walsh
Composition by James Newton Howard
Costume Designer by Terry Ryan
Director of Photography Andrew Lesnie
Production Design by Grant Major
Story by Merian C. Cooper & Edgar Wallace
Performer Thomas Kretschmann & Andy Serkis

DVD Details:

  • Label: Universal Studios
  • Originally Released in: 2005
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Rated: Parents Strongly Cautioned for Children Under 13
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Region: Region 1 encoding; USA & Canada.
  • Release Date: March 28, 2006
  • OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 96,423
  • Item UPC: 025192994524
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.

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