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Kong: Skull Island (Wal-Mart VUDU/Blu-ray + DVD+ Digital Combo Pack) When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman and John C. Reilly star in a thrilling and original new adventure that reveals the untold story of how Kong became King.

Review: MonsterVerse is an original and unique cinematic universe - "Kong: Skull Island" is a 2017 American science fiction monster film produced by Legendary Pictures, based on the screenplay cowritten by Max Borenstein, Dan Gilroy, and Derek Connolly from an original story created by John Gatins, with visual effects by Jeff White. It is the second film in the MonsterVerse franchise. The MonsterVerse is an original cinematic universe introducing an entirely unique mythopoeia (myth-making narrative), created in 2014 and owned by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, presenting reinvented mythoi in an overarching metanarrative that establishes a prototypical canon, chronology, and continuum. As such, "Kong: Skull Island" is not a derivative work. Filming took place in the northern portion of Vietnam, including Tràng An, Vân Long, and Tam Cốc (Ninh Bình Province), Hạ Long Bay (Quảng Ninh Province), and the entrance of the Tú Làn Caves System (Tân Hoá, Trung Hoá Village, Minh Hoá District, Quảng Bình Province). Filming also took place on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, in Honolulu's Chinatown and the Kualoa Ranch and Waikane Valley (Ohulehule Forest Conservancy), and on Australia's Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The film featured the largest version of Kong to date, measuring approximately 100 feet tall, and the task of building a bigger, better Kong fell to a team of animators and effects artists from Industrial Light and Magic and other studios, led by veteran visual effects supervisors Stephen Rosenbaum and Jeff White, who integrated visual effects, by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of live-action footage, and CGI elements to create realistic imagery called VFX. Starring Tom Hiddleston as James Conrad, an ex-British Special Air Service Captain tracker-hunter who served in the Vietnam War with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment; Samuel L. Jackson as Preston Packard, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and Sky Devils helicopter squadron leader assigned to be the expedition's military escort; John Goodman as William "Bill" Randa, an Assistant Professor in Cryptozoology and senior official in the Monarch military-science research coalition, and commander of the expedition; Brie Larson as Mason Weaver, an investigative photojournalist; Jing Tian as San Lin, Monarch biologist; Toby Kebbell as Jack Chapman, United States Army major and Sea Stallion helicopter pilot who is Packard's right-hand man; John Ortiz as Victor Nieves, a senior official from the Landsat Satellite Imagery organization providing location-finding satellite equipment and expertise to the expedition; Corey Hawkins as Dr. Houston Brooks, Yale University graduate geologist, recruited into Monarch for his thesis on the Hollow Earth Theory and groundbreaking theories on seismology, as an assistant to senior operative Bill Randa; Jason Mitchell as Glenn Mills, a Sky Devils warrant officer helicopter pilot, and close friend of Cole; Shea Whigham as Earl Cole, the seasoned Captain of the Sky Devils; Thomas Mann as Reg Slivko, a Sky Devils warrant officer; John C. Reilly as Hank Marlow, U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenant of the 45th Pursuit Squadron stranded on Skull Island for nearly 29 years since World War II; and Robert Taylor as captain of the "Athena", the ship that carries our adventurers to Skull Island. The film's story begins in 1973, with representatives from Monarch, a covert Japanese-American quasi military scientific research coalition formed to hunt and study "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms" (MUTOs), and Landsat, a classified peerless satellite imaging contractor, planning an exploratory expedition to Skull Island after Landsat satellites discover primeval creatures; recruiting in the planning process, under the pretext of geologic research, the Sky Devils, a 1st Aviation Brigade, 3rd Assault Helicopter military squadron, as an escort headed by U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard to lead the expedition with tracker and former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad, and the investigative photojournalist Mason Weaver to document the expedition. On reaching Skull Island, we discover an evolution of prehistoric superspecies threatening the survival of our explorers. The "MonsterVerse" of "Kong: Skull Island" includes the most wonderfully terrifying prehistoric creatures: Skull Crawlers, a massive, ancient reptilian two-legged amphibian species, monsters that live in the huge caverns beneath the surface of the Earth; the largest of the Skullcrawler is the "Skull Devil." Sker Buffalo, a massive amphibious, docile water buffalo-like creature with gigantic horns. Mother Longlegs, an all-female species of gargantuan spider with legs resembling bamboo shoots that inhabit the Bamboo Forest section of Skull Island where the slender bamboo trees form the perfect camouflage for the spider's roughly 20 foot long legs, at the end of which are razor sharp spikes for impaling its victims, and using its mucus-like tendrils to pull its victims upwards towards its two scorpion-like pincers at the front of its thorax. Mire Squid, a roughly 100-foot-long hybrid of giant octopus and squid akin to a Kraken that hunts from beneath the surface of the water, creating a whirlpool that sucks its prey into its open mouth at the center of the swirl. Psychovultures, a bat-like predator with wingspans of 5 to 9 feet, inducing its aggression by eating a poisonous form of pufferfish found on Skull Island. Spore Mantis, an enormous 50-foot stick insect deceptively camouflaged as a fallen redwood tree; the four-legged, tree-like shell houses a parasite with spiked teeth that captures its prey with the slug-like symbiotic parasite that lives inside its trunk, encasing its prey in sap within its body during the digestive process, and then excrete the outer shell of the body in a state that appears perfectly preserved, without its innards. Leafwing, a blue-blooded bird, a species of the Psychovulture, with a wingspan of 3-5 feet and long, razor-like beaks. Sirenjaw, a giant crocodile with trees and plant life growing from its body that quickly and ferociously consume anything that ventures into its space. Death Jackals, as agile as a leopard with the bite of a great white shark. Magma Turtles, born in volcanoes, with lava pumping through their veins, and shells of molten magma, literally “a walking volcano”. Vinstranglers, a carnivorous plant with hanging vinelike tendrils that capture and pull the prey into their stomach to be slowly digested alive. Swamp Locust, having a perfectly circular mouth with rows of razor-sharp teeth, its legs sticking out of the water to resemble trees, to lure, capture, and consume their prey. The "Kong: Skull Island" story is strikingly suspenseful, frightening, and gripping. Samuel Jackson and Kong should both receive Academy Awards; their performances are mesmerizing. Samuel Jackson is scarier than the Skullcrawlers. Awesome! To get a better understanding of the Monarch organization you should watch the "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" as a prelude to the MonsterVerse. The MonsterVerse is an American multimedia franchise and shared universe featuring Godzilla, Kong and other sister characters owned and created by Tōhō Co., Ltd., that began in 2014, produced by Legendary Pictures, which consists of five films and two television series. CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINE BASED ON YEAR WITHIN THE MONSTERVERSE 1952 Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters past timeline 1973 Kong: Skull Island 2014 Godzilla 2015 Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters modern timeline 2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2024 Godzilla vs. Kong 2027 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" is a television series prequel in the MonsterVerse franchise, streaming in ten forty-to-fifty-minute episodes. The series is set a year after the G-Day attack in 2014’s Godzilla. Flashback sequences track the formation of Monarch from its beginning in 1952 when William 'Bill' Randa, Keiko Miura, and Colonel Leland 'Lee' Lafayette Shaw III all meet one another; and continues into 1954 when the trio and US military forces first encounter Godzilla; through 1955, when Monarch battles against being decommissioned and Randa pioneers the 'Hollow Earth' theory; and 1959, when Keiko falls into a Hollow Earth portal and is assumed to be dead for years.
Review: An original adventure instead of just another remake. Thrilling fun for the 8-year old in all of us. - BOTTOM LINE: A brand new adventure for the Skull Island Kid. The first completely new cinematic outing for Kong since Toho gave us 1967's wild & woolly KING KONG ESCAPES; (I don't count KING KONG LIVES, which is a direct, albeit decade-belated, sequel to the '76 remake - plus it just sucks. LOL). A talented cast heads to the mythic, mist-shrouded South Seas island and encounters exactly what we would hope for: a buttload of crazy-ass monsters and the young Prince Kong, in all his furry fury. A slick, satisfying addition to Legendary's ever-expanding MonsterVerse. I really enjoyed the hell out of this movie; far, far more than I ever expected. So just hobble your high horses and unleash your inner child... you'll have a blast. 5 STARS THOUGHTS: I honestly didn't know what to think (or expect) when I first learned they were going to do another Kong film... and an all-new story to boot! It was cool that they were actually going to try something new but it was scary, too. It could easily have been a fiasco of the highest order, but it had major backing from Warner Bros. and over at producing studio Legendary Pictures, diehard comic & monster geek CEO Thomas Tull was squarely in the driver’s seat… so I went in with hopes high and fingers crossed. What I got was a wild ride that kept me on the edge of my seat, eyes agog, rooting for its scrappy simian star. Sure, K:SI is by no means a perfect picture; the human characters are kinda flat and not very well developed, there are script inconsistencies, plot contrivances, leaps in logic and whatnot but cryin' out loud this is constructed like all those great Saturday afternoon matinee adventures designed to entertain kids (and kids at heart), not some dry stuffy drama like Chariots of Fire! So shut up all you stuffed shirt whiners!! ;-) The CGI is pretty good and really helps sell the Lost World look of the film. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (who!?) comes from out of nowhere and hits a home run that goes screaming over the bleachers and right out of the park for this kid at heart. He peppers the film with some terrific iconic shots of both Kong and his island friends & enemies and stylishly sets up some of the most frenzied fights in giant monster movie history. He does this without getting too full of himself; wisely pulling his camera back, moving slowly and only when needed, to let our eager eyes fully drink in the lush scenery and gape slack-jawed at the brutal beastly battles. And while the editing is paced a little faster than I’d personally prefer, at least Vogt-Roberts & his cinematographer avoid assaulting our eyes and/or inducing nausea by resorting to the super close-up, hyperfast-edited, Michael Bay-styled action garbage that is so commonplace in these kinds of blockbuster F/X-heavy films nowadays. The final battle with the giant Skull Crawler features a fantastic tracking shot that slowly follows Kong in a sweeping 360 degree circle, but at such a leisurely pace that you hardly even notice that the camera is moving; giving us a bird’s eye view of the pulse-pounding action without drawing attention to itself. Very slick & satisfying. Kong’s design is a blend of the classic '33 look, with some slight updates; an iconic cinematic creature who is most definitely a movie MONSTER… NOT just a great big whimsical Gorilla (I'm looking at YOU, ice-skating Peter Jackson Kong. Meh.) The monstrous animals of Skull Island are also a real treat. Loved those Princess Mononoke-inspired Water Buffalos. The spider was nasty and scary, while the huge walking stick was surprisingly lovable and cute. Even the Skull Crawlers were a nice tip of the hat to the bipedal lizardy thing that threatened Jack Driscoll in the '33 original movie. Cool. The actors here are all quite good, with Shea Wigham being a stand-out. Samuel L. Jackson does his typical macho badass shtick, (which I'm really getting rather tired of, to be perfectly honest). John Goodman is sadly underused but does the most with his small-ish part. The always good, always off balance John C. Reilly pretty much steals the whole show in his role as the WWII pilot who crashlands on the island during the opening scene, acting as our (and the Vietnam-era soldiers') guide to Skull Island; amusingly laying down the Rules of Survival for both us & them. And for the record resolution of his character's arc during the end credits sequence was something I wasn't expecting, and the emotional power of it brings tears to my eyes, every single time I watch it. Seriously. It's a sweet, touching sequence yet is essentially a brief throwaway piece. But those few bittersweet minutes give the film a surprising resonance, and cements Reilly's character as the de facto heart of the film (along with junior Kong himself, of course). And for heaven's sake, be sure to stick around through the end credits! ;-) THE BLU-RAY: As one would expect from a new motion picture from a major studio, this hi-def release looks & sounds fantastic. The video portion of the hi-def transfer is crisp, clear & clean, with no junk (pixelation, edge enhancement, artifacting, or any kind of dirt or debris whatsoever) to ruin things. The audio portion is equally strong, with an even, fully immersing soundmix. A decent amount of bonus content adds fun & flavor to the movie. (Although it's no where near enough for a hardcore moviephile & giant monster fan like myself. LOL) All-in-all, KONG: SKULL ISLAND is highly recommended for movie goers in general and doubly so for monster movie lovers & Kong fans. I can't wait to see him duke it out with Godzilla in 2020!

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Alex Garcia, Brie Larson, Dan Gilroy, Derek Connolly, Edward Cheng, Eric McLeod, Jason Mitchell, John Gatins, John Goodman, Jon Jashni, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Mary Parent, Max Borenstein, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Tull, Tian Jing, Toby Kebbell, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Peitzman Contributor Alex Garcia, Brie Larson, Dan Gilroy, Derek Connolly, Edward Cheng, Eric McLeod, Jason Mitchell, John Gatins, John Goodman, Jon Jashni, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Mary Parent, Max Borenstein, Samuel L. Jackson, Thomas Tull, Tian Jing, Toby Kebbell, Tom Hiddleston, Tom Peitzman See more |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 39,941 Reviews |
| Format | NTSC |
| Genre | Action & Adventure |
| Number Of Discs | 2 |

## Product Details

- **Color:** Color
- **Format:** NTSC
- **Genre:** Action & Adventure
- **Number Of Discs:** 2

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MonsterVerse is an original and unique cinematic universe
*by W***. on August 10, 2024*

"Kong: Skull Island" is a 2017 American science fiction monster film produced by Legendary Pictures, based on the screenplay cowritten by Max Borenstein, Dan Gilroy, and Derek Connolly from an original story created by John Gatins, with visual effects by Jeff White. It is the second film in the MonsterVerse franchise. The MonsterVerse is an original cinematic universe introducing an entirely unique mythopoeia (myth-making narrative), created in 2014 and owned by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, presenting reinvented mythoi in an overarching metanarrative that establishes a prototypical canon, chronology, and continuum. As such, "Kong: Skull Island" is not a derivative work. Filming took place in the northern portion of Vietnam, including Tràng An, Vân Long, and Tam Cốc (Ninh Bình Province), Hạ Long Bay (Quảng Ninh Province), and the entrance of the Tú Làn Caves System (Tân Hoá, Trung Hoá Village, Minh Hoá District, Quảng Bình Province). Filming also took place on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, in Honolulu's Chinatown and the Kualoa Ranch and Waikane Valley (Ohulehule Forest Conservancy), and on Australia's Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The film featured the largest version of Kong to date, measuring approximately 100 feet tall, and the task of building a bigger, better Kong fell to a team of animators and effects artists from Industrial Light and Magic and other studios, led by veteran visual effects supervisors Stephen Rosenbaum and Jeff White, who integrated visual effects, by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of live-action footage, and CGI elements to create realistic imagery called VFX. Starring Tom Hiddleston as James Conrad, an ex-British Special Air Service Captain tracker-hunter who served in the Vietnam War with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment; Samuel L. Jackson as Preston Packard, United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and Sky Devils helicopter squadron leader assigned to be the expedition's military escort; John Goodman as William "Bill" Randa, an Assistant Professor in Cryptozoology and senior official in the Monarch military-science research coalition, and commander of the expedition; Brie Larson as Mason Weaver, an investigative photojournalist; Jing Tian as San Lin, Monarch biologist; Toby Kebbell as Jack Chapman, United States Army major and Sea Stallion helicopter pilot who is Packard's right-hand man; John Ortiz as Victor Nieves, a senior official from the Landsat Satellite Imagery organization providing location-finding satellite equipment and expertise to the expedition; Corey Hawkins as Dr. Houston Brooks, Yale University graduate geologist, recruited into Monarch for his thesis on the Hollow Earth Theory and groundbreaking theories on seismology, as an assistant to senior operative Bill Randa; Jason Mitchell as Glenn Mills, a Sky Devils warrant officer helicopter pilot, and close friend of Cole; Shea Whigham as Earl Cole, the seasoned Captain of the Sky Devils; Thomas Mann as Reg Slivko, a Sky Devils warrant officer; John C. Reilly as Hank Marlow, U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenant of the 45th Pursuit Squadron stranded on Skull Island for nearly 29 years since World War II; and Robert Taylor as captain of the "Athena", the ship that carries our adventurers to Skull Island. The film's story begins in 1973, with representatives from Monarch, a covert Japanese-American quasi military scientific research coalition formed to hunt and study "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms" (MUTOs), and Landsat, a classified peerless satellite imaging contractor, planning an exploratory expedition to Skull Island after Landsat satellites discover primeval creatures; recruiting in the planning process, under the pretext of geologic research, the Sky Devils, a 1st Aviation Brigade, 3rd Assault Helicopter military squadron, as an escort headed by U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard to lead the expedition with tracker and former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad, and the investigative photojournalist Mason Weaver to document the expedition. On reaching Skull Island, we discover an evolution of prehistoric superspecies threatening the survival of our explorers. The "MonsterVerse" of "Kong: Skull Island" includes the most wonderfully terrifying prehistoric creatures: Skull Crawlers, a massive, ancient reptilian two-legged amphibian species, monsters that live in the huge caverns beneath the surface of the Earth; the largest of the Skullcrawler is the "Skull Devil." Sker Buffalo, a massive amphibious, docile water buffalo-like creature with gigantic horns. Mother Longlegs, an all-female species of gargantuan spider with legs resembling bamboo shoots that inhabit the Bamboo Forest section of Skull Island where the slender bamboo trees form the perfect camouflage for the spider's roughly 20 foot long legs, at the end of which are razor sharp spikes for impaling its victims, and using its mucus-like tendrils to pull its victims upwards towards its two scorpion-like pincers at the front of its thorax. Mire Squid, a roughly 100-foot-long hybrid of giant octopus and squid akin to a Kraken that hunts from beneath the surface of the water, creating a whirlpool that sucks its prey into its open mouth at the center of the swirl. Psychovultures, a bat-like predator with wingspans of 5 to 9 feet, inducing its aggression by eating a poisonous form of pufferfish found on Skull Island. Spore Mantis, an enormous 50-foot stick insect deceptively camouflaged as a fallen redwood tree; the four-legged, tree-like shell houses a parasite with spiked teeth that captures its prey with the slug-like symbiotic parasite that lives inside its trunk, encasing its prey in sap within its body during the digestive process, and then excrete the outer shell of the body in a state that appears perfectly preserved, without its innards. Leafwing, a blue-blooded bird, a species of the Psychovulture, with a wingspan of 3-5 feet and long, razor-like beaks. Sirenjaw, a giant crocodile with trees and plant life growing from its body that quickly and ferociously consume anything that ventures into its space. Death Jackals, as agile as a leopard with the bite of a great white shark. Magma Turtles, born in volcanoes, with lava pumping through their veins, and shells of molten magma, literally “a walking volcano”. Vinstranglers, a carnivorous plant with hanging vinelike tendrils that capture and pull the prey into their stomach to be slowly digested alive. Swamp Locust, having a perfectly circular mouth with rows of razor-sharp teeth, its legs sticking out of the water to resemble trees, to lure, capture, and consume their prey. The "Kong: Skull Island" story is strikingly suspenseful, frightening, and gripping. Samuel Jackson and Kong should both receive Academy Awards; their performances are mesmerizing. Samuel Jackson is scarier than the Skullcrawlers. Awesome! To get a better understanding of the Monarch organization you should watch the "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" as a prelude to the MonsterVerse. The MonsterVerse is an American multimedia franchise and shared universe featuring Godzilla, Kong and other sister characters owned and created by Tōhō Co., Ltd., that began in 2014, produced by Legendary Pictures, which consists of five films and two television series. CHRONOLOGICAL TIMELINE BASED ON YEAR WITHIN THE MONSTERVERSE 1952 Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters past timeline 1973 Kong: Skull Island 2014 Godzilla 2015 Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters modern timeline 2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters 2024 Godzilla vs. Kong 2027 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters" is a television series prequel in the MonsterVerse franchise, streaming in ten forty-to-fifty-minute episodes. The series is set a year after the G-Day attack in 2014’s Godzilla. Flashback sequences track the formation of Monarch from its beginning in 1952 when William 'Bill' Randa, Keiko Miura, and Colonel Leland 'Lee' Lafayette Shaw III all meet one another; and continues into 1954 when the trio and US military forces first encounter Godzilla; through 1955, when Monarch battles against being decommissioned and Randa pioneers the 'Hollow Earth' theory; and 1959, when Keiko falls into a Hollow Earth portal and is assumed to be dead for years.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An original adventure instead of just another remake. Thrilling fun for the 8-year old in all of us.
*by S***Y on January 16, 2019*

BOTTOM LINE: A brand new adventure for the Skull Island Kid. The first completely new cinematic outing for Kong since Toho gave us 1967's wild & woolly KING KONG ESCAPES; (I don't count KING KONG LIVES, which is a direct, albeit decade-belated, sequel to the '76 remake - plus it just sucks. LOL). A talented cast heads to the mythic, mist-shrouded South Seas island and encounters exactly what we would hope for: a buttload of crazy-ass monsters and the young Prince Kong, in all his furry fury. A slick, satisfying addition to Legendary's ever-expanding MonsterVerse. I really enjoyed the hell out of this movie; far, far more than I ever expected. So just hobble your high horses and unleash your inner child... you'll have a blast. 5 STARS THOUGHTS: I honestly didn't know what to think (or expect) when I first learned they were going to do another Kong film... and an all-new story to boot! It was cool that they were actually going to try something new but it was scary, too. It could easily have been a fiasco of the highest order, but it had major backing from Warner Bros. and over at producing studio Legendary Pictures, diehard comic & monster geek CEO Thomas Tull was squarely in the driver’s seat… so I went in with hopes high and fingers crossed. What I got was a wild ride that kept me on the edge of my seat, eyes agog, rooting for its scrappy simian star. Sure, K:SI is by no means a perfect picture; the human characters are kinda flat and not very well developed, there are script inconsistencies, plot contrivances, leaps in logic and whatnot but cryin' out loud this is constructed like all those great Saturday afternoon matinee adventures designed to entertain kids (and kids at heart), not some dry stuffy drama like Chariots of Fire! So shut up all you stuffed shirt whiners!! ;-) The CGI is pretty good and really helps sell the Lost World look of the film. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (who!?) comes from out of nowhere and hits a home run that goes screaming over the bleachers and right out of the park for this kid at heart. He peppers the film with some terrific iconic shots of both Kong and his island friends & enemies and stylishly sets up some of the most frenzied fights in giant monster movie history. He does this without getting too full of himself; wisely pulling his camera back, moving slowly and only when needed, to let our eager eyes fully drink in the lush scenery and gape slack-jawed at the brutal beastly battles. And while the editing is paced a little faster than I’d personally prefer, at least Vogt-Roberts & his cinematographer avoid assaulting our eyes and/or inducing nausea by resorting to the super close-up, hyperfast-edited, Michael Bay-styled action garbage that is so commonplace in these kinds of blockbuster F/X-heavy films nowadays. The final battle with the giant Skull Crawler features a fantastic tracking shot that slowly follows Kong in a sweeping 360 degree circle, but at such a leisurely pace that you hardly even notice that the camera is moving; giving us a bird’s eye view of the pulse-pounding action without drawing attention to itself. Very slick & satisfying. Kong’s design is a blend of the classic '33 look, with some slight updates; an iconic cinematic creature who is most definitely a movie MONSTER… NOT just a great big whimsical Gorilla (I'm looking at YOU, ice-skating Peter Jackson Kong. Meh.) The monstrous animals of Skull Island are also a real treat. Loved those Princess Mononoke-inspired Water Buffalos. The spider was nasty and scary, while the huge walking stick was surprisingly lovable and cute. Even the Skull Crawlers were a nice tip of the hat to the bipedal lizardy thing that threatened Jack Driscoll in the '33 original movie. Cool. The actors here are all quite good, with Shea Wigham being a stand-out. Samuel L. Jackson does his typical macho badass shtick, (which I'm really getting rather tired of, to be perfectly honest). John Goodman is sadly underused but does the most with his small-ish part. The always good, always off balance John C. Reilly pretty much steals the whole show in his role as the WWII pilot who crashlands on the island during the opening scene, acting as our (and the Vietnam-era soldiers') guide to Skull Island; amusingly laying down the Rules of Survival for both us & them. And for the record resolution of his character's arc during the end credits sequence was something I wasn't expecting, and the emotional power of it brings tears to my eyes, every single time I watch it. Seriously. It's a sweet, touching sequence yet is essentially a brief throwaway piece. But those few bittersweet minutes give the film a surprising resonance, and cements Reilly's character as the de facto heart of the film (along with junior Kong himself, of course). And for heaven's sake, be sure to stick around through the end credits! ;-) THE BLU-RAY: As one would expect from a new motion picture from a major studio, this hi-def release looks & sounds fantastic. The video portion of the hi-def transfer is crisp, clear & clean, with no junk (pixelation, edge enhancement, artifacting, or any kind of dirt or debris whatsoever) to ruin things. The audio portion is equally strong, with an even, fully immersing soundmix. A decent amount of bonus content adds fun & flavor to the movie. (Although it's no where near enough for a hardcore moviephile & giant monster fan like myself. LOL) All-in-all, KONG: SKULL ISLAND is highly recommended for movie goers in general and doubly so for monster movie lovers & Kong fans. I can't wait to see him duke it out with Godzilla in 2020!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ KONG IS INDEED KING
*by C***S on March 19, 2017*

Theatre Review: This film is far more than a mere reboot or remake. I saw it in 3-D and I as well as the people around me were jumping and flinching throughout the movie as object after object came zooming out at us. The film has a solid script, fine acting, and CGI effects the likes of which stand at the very pinnacle of this genre. This may be the most credible and "three dimensional" Kong ever presented from the standpoint of his size, strength, actions, behavior, and appearance. While the story does follow several tried and true as well as predictable paths, the way that many of the would be hunters are dispatched is brought to a new level of gore and, combined with the intensity of this film, is not for the squeamish.The movie begins with same kind of rationale that was seen at the beginning of the Godzilla reboot for the South Pacific atomic testing of the early 1950s. But, from then on nothing is like the latter. Indeed, Kong makes a very early appearance and one need not wait until you are 60% or more into this film for it to happen. The setting on Skull Island is far superior to the California civic setting of Godzilla and far deadlier and forbidding. Kong's creature opponents alone make this film more sinister and exciting - and help to elevate the special effects to a whole new level. The balance between Kong's "humanity" and his "monster side" is perfectly done. While Samuel L. Jackson's character does tend to chew up the scenery he is necessary as the usual human foil for Kong. As a deranged soldier who, in 1973 (the chronological setting for this film), still cannot accept the end result in Vietnam, Jackson's attitude and emotional posturing make Kong appear that much more human. One disappointment was the way the "WALL" on Skull Island was introduced and the reason given for it even though it was intended to fit the storyline of this particular Kong. In the end, it was basically a mere homage to previous Kong movies and something of a throw away. For those who have never seen it, this Kong movie was far more reminiscent of a 1948 film titled "Unknown Island" with Richard Denning, Virginia Grey, and Barton MacLane. That film even had a most threatening oversized prehistoric sloth which even does battle with a T-Rex near the end. (A DVD of the film is still available on Amazon.) Another surprise for me is the fact that Kong: Skull Island is not doing as well by some $30million so far in the US and Canada compared to Godzilla even though IMHO the former is a much better film in every way. However, overseas business is very brisk so far and should well exceed Godzilla when the final tally is made. A final note: For anyone who has yet to see Kong be sure and wait till the end of all the end credits. People always leave the theatre as soon as the credits begin to roll. I don't. And a key Epilogue scene was missed. Serves them right.

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*Store origin: NO*
*Last updated: 2026-09-17*