Sadly Over-hyped

How sad is this?

Fresh and Exciting

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

What a mess... It was long and boring even before they arrived in the island.And then the movie evolved into a video game. It was like trying to pass level after level battling the threats that had the shape of almost every animal menace ever appeared in a sci-fi bi movie: Big spiders, big ants, big scorpions, big flesh eating plants, big dinosaurs, smaller dinosaurs, big bats, they even touched "Alien" with some kind of larvae/eggs thingies. Realism? ok you do not expect much realism in a movie with all of the above, but well it was completely unbelievable how the humans survived this hell of monsters. Not to mention the natives of the island, who apparently only worried about Kong and miraculously have survived the bazillion of the other threats.As for the characters? All caricatures. Even the bugs acted better. The one character with some development was King Kong.I strongly recommend the 1933 movie. Less CGI but more heart. Hell, even the Jessica Lange remake was better..

Although I was looking forward to Peter Jackson doing The Hobbit after the Lord of the Rings trilogy, this seemed like an interesting surprise. Not only do we get an update of the 1933 classic, we also get a more savage (and scarier) Skull Island. Plus an all-new cast and updated special effects. It's good for those of you who haven't seen the original but want to try something in the giant monster department. It's not as good as the original but it's one of the better remakes. Most remakes aren't that great (take the debacles that were Godzilla 1998 and Tim Burton's The Planet of the Apes) but this is one of those rare exceptions. Some say that the cast lacked chemistry but I think they succeeded. And the extended edition really worked with additional scenes. I heard the late Fay Wray (who played the original Ann Darrow) was going to have a cameo somewhere but she died before they could film it. But if you enjoy Peter Jackson's films and want to see massive creatures duking it out and lots of critters against humans, this is your ticket.

That's start off with the bad - the first hour. Dear JESUS CHRIST the first hour is a SLOG! It took WAY longer than it should've for the characters to get to the damn island. This movie should've had AT LEAST 30 minutes taken off. We get a tediously long introduction to Jack Black, TWO introductions to Naomi Watts, and a love story without much chemistry with Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody (and it's very rushed, too). They spend too long on the ship, and WAY too long in the damn city.Now lets get to the good stuff - Everything after they get to the island. Once they find Skull Island, EVERYTHING gets better! The pacing picks up significantly, and it's a total blast. Andy Serkis as Kong is amazing, of course, Naomi Watts is astounding, espiacally during the climax, and the T-Rex fights are a true wonder to behold. The editing and Cinematography is very shaky and a little hard to make out at times, but I think it works here because it only gets that way when Kong is wrecking havoc with Watts in his hand or in the city, and feels disorientating because it WOULD feel disorientating in real life.All-in-all, it's definately worth watching. However, I would recommend skipping to roughly the 55 minute-1 Hour mark to avoid any time wasting.

I don't like the end of the movie why should kill the Kong in the end