King Kong Lives

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Summary: What did they expect from this movie?
Review: "King Kong Lives" is just a low budget wannabe Kong film ( it's just like this japanese movie from 1967 simply called "A.P.E" ). The acting is terrible, the effects are worse ( Godzilla would laugh at these effects ) and the stupid love story they try to toss in is an expected turn for this awful movie. Theres nudity in the film, hey this is a King Kong movie, not some kind of porno film. The worst part about this film is that they find another 50ft. ape girlfreind for Kong. Thats about the stupidest idea in the history of film. I wonder what the makers of this film thought they would get from this horrible movie. Was it made for laughs or was it an unsucessful attempt to make yet another sequal to the 1933 masterpiece? So, unless your collecting all the King Kong movies ( like me ), dont even rent this movie for $ .99 ( unless you like to watch movies that are even worse than "Godzilla vs. Megalon" )

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Summary: King Kong might live but he will regret it with this turkey
Review: "King Kong Lives" is so boring that even pre-schoolers will probably get up and wander out of the room on this one to go play with a cardboard box or watch paint dry. It is one thing to make a sequel to a splatter flick where Michael/Jason/Freddy constantly comes back from the dead, but another thing to try and put the same trick with King Kong. Thousands of people die around the world each year because of heart attacks, but working on an artificial heart for a 50-foot ape who has been in a coma for ten years seemed like a good idea to heart specialist Amy Franklin (Linda Hamilton). Meanwhile, in the jungles of Borneo big game hunter Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin) finds a female Kong. This is good news because she can provide the blood Kong needs during the operation (let us all think about the world's biggest by-pass machine). Amy falls for Hank because they have so much in common, while the two apes do the same. Needing privacy, Kong and his love flee into the woods where the Army proceeds to hunt them down. The movie makes it seem like it only took the army a couple of days to hunt down two 50-foot apes running loose in the wild, but it must have been many, many months because when the Army catches up with them the female Kong is in labor.

This movie is jaw-droppingly bad. But given that Jessica Lange survived the original "King Kong" remake and Linda Hamilton had some success after this turkey, there is really no reason for any young actress to ever turn a role in one of these films, no matter how bad the script. King Kong's leading ladies do pretty well. The gap between the original "King Kong" and the remake is certainly a lot closer than "King Kong Lives" and the original sequel, "Son of Kong." Sure, that one had the mystery of where was Frau Kong all this time, but that giant hole is nothing compared to the rampant stupidity in this one. The person I respect after watching this film would have to be Margaret Mitchell, who avoided having a sequel to "Gone With the Wind" for half a century. Way to go Mrs. Peggy Marsh!

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Summary: Mistake On My Part, And The Director's
Review: It's long after Kong fell off the Empire State Building, and all this time scientists tried to save Kong with an arteficial heart. Meanwhile the army finds out about Lady Kong and try to kill both of them. This plot is good but they make the movie seem so boring you want to run away. I was going to get Rodan when I was younger but my mom showed me this and I chose it. Turns out Rodan was 17,000,000,000 times better than this pathetic film. If you want to die of boredom, watch this terrible excuse for a King Kong movie.

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Summary: Greatly entertaining.
Review: This sequel to the 1976 remake of King Kong is pure cheese, but very entertaining for monster fans! I found it more entertaining than King Kong (1976), and not as long and drawn out as the latter movie.

Highly recommended if you can get a copy of it.