Product Description

Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Colin Hanks, Kyle ChandlerDirector: Peter Jackson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1818 in DVD
• Brand: Blu-ray Action & Adventure
• Released on: 2009-03-09
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Subtitled in: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Greek, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 192 minutes

Synopsis
King Kong is director Peter Jackson's sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it sees a film crew travel to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up giant gorilla King Kong, and bring him back to 1930s New York City. Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavoury 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. 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.

Customer Reviews

Wow. Just wow!
I'm sure that by now most of you know the story or have seen the film so I'll concentrate this purely on the quality of the Blu-Ray experience. King Kong is a magnificent movie made so much better by this stunning high-def release. The picture quality is breathtaking at times, especially some of the long distance shots across the rich jungle and the city scenes.It's just gorgeous to watch from end to end. The audio is also amazing, every bit as glorious as you want it to be.

The special features are pretty cool, particularly the way they are embedded into the main feature and are accessed by context-sensitive icons that can be switched on or off at will. I didn't notice much new in there, just a new way of watching them really, but it's great to see them again and really brill to see them so cleverly presented.

Oh, and you get both versions of the movie, the original theatre version and the special edition. Both look and sound utterly remarkable.

Epic remake, perfect for Blu-ray
As a newcomer to the Blu-ray format, and not having this film on DVD already, I thought this would make a good purchase, and I was proved right last night. The film looks absolutely stunning in HD, and the sound is equally superb.

The disc comes complete with two versions of the film - the Theatrical Version and the Extended Version, which adds about 20 minutes of additional footage not in the Theatrical release. The Blu-ray also boasts some cool new types of feature, notably the ability to make your own clips and watch "My Scenes", as well as making your bookmarks, so you can jump to your favourite bits of the film. The extra features come in the form of "U-Control", which enables you to see original concept artwork and/or "picture-in-picture" clips of footage of the film being made, both of which you can watch without interrupting the film, or access from the main menu. There is also the obligatory Feature Commentary with Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens.

For those who haven't seen the film, I can recommend it whole-heartedly - performances throughout are excellent, and the CGI is convincing and (especially in HD) sometimes truly amazing (particularly the early scenes including Kong himself). The film is a tad long, and it is a bit slow getting going, but the flipside is that you get more involved in the story and understand just how and why this bunch of hapless filmmakers find themselves in their dire predicaments later on...

All in all, a great purchase - I can't say whether movie purists will approve entirely, but in my opinion, this is one remake certainly worth having. The quality throughout demonstrates Jackson's obvious passion and love for the original, and I think he's done a superb job in 'restoring' a classic.

Audio track in castilian spanish too
This Blu Ray has the audio track in castilian spanish too. Also all the extras have subtitles in spanish.

There are two version of the film, the teatrical and the extended version. Just the teatrical version has the audio track in castilian spanish, the extended version no, so you could see the teatrical version in spanish with the 13 minutes of the extended version with subtitles in spanish.

The film is really good, with amazing special effects. A very interesting title for the HD.