Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10308 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-11-13
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 179 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

Stuuning HD
As an owner of the 3 disk DVD I've been waiting for this to appear on Blu-ray but gave up so I plumped for this for now.
The picture looks fantastic on DVD with my Toshiba doing the upscaling trick but when I switched over the HD (@1080p)...wow! How people are saying that an upscaled DVD looks just as good, I have no idea.
The one disadvantage I have found is that because the picture is so crisp it highlights the superimposed filming even so more. The ridiculous rampaging dinosaur scene looks awful.

Less is sometimes more!
Overall I enjoyed this film, especially the stunning visuals. However, it seems to me that is an example of the increasing polarization of film genre'. Why do the ingredients of blockbuster movies apparently have to be limited to mainly action, with a bit of sugary romance and weak humour thrown in. For instance the opening scene of Free Camp, New York Central Park during the Great Depression was simply superb, but regretfully over in a flash. What a missed opportunity (one of many in the film) to impress time and place on the mind of the viewer. Whereas no such reticence was in evidence as far as the action scenes were concerned. For instance for the first 90 seconds I was blown away the Dinosaur chasing scene, but 10 minutes later I had pretty much lost the will to live.

Great film - ZERO EXTRA'S!!!!!!!!!???????
By now most people will have either seen the film, or at least a trailer and seen how stunning the visuals are.
Peter jackson did a brilliant job filming his dream movie, and it is very enjoyable.
I purchased the dvd version and it has hours of extra features, makings of and special fx documentories etc.
So when i went to purchase the film on HD-DVD- one would assume (given the extra storage space on HD discs) that all the extra features would be present.
But NO!?? The disc has only the film and nothing else!!! Not even a trailer!! This is unforgivable- especially when we have to pay the increased price for HD discs!
With HD you 'at least' expect the same features as the standard dvd release - and possibly additional material such as scripts and storyboards.
But this is an unforgivable oversight- and disapointing to say the least.
Again great film- sharp 1080p transfer- but you'll be robbed for anything more.
Be warned.