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Title: GARBAGE!!!
Review: Given the level of creativity and the seamless implementation of WETA's effects, I expected much more from this movie than a long overdrawn saga. The story was okay, but hindered badly by the poor integration of live-action and cg. I mean, the compositing was just plain lousy and the movements of the large creatures weren't scaled well at all. I was so distracted during the scene in which the characters are running from the herd of brachiosaurs (or whatever they were) by the obvious fakery of the images that I couldn't see past it. Better effects were achieved in the original King Kong. I don't expect to see this kind of crap on screen when it comes from the same people who were behind LOTR.In short, King Kong was overhyped, overbudgeted, underproduced and overall underwhelming. The best example of integrated cg in a film is still the first film to use the technology: Jurassic Park. Let's hope that Peter Jackson decides to take on something less classic and less demanding on the audience.
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