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Title: peter jackson grinds the organ for a big dull monkey of a movie
Review: after the triumph of "lord of the rings", peter jackson deserves a pass. well, this was it. he desparately needed a script editor, in that the opening 45 minutes of exposition should have been pared down to 15 at most. the technological "advances" since the real film only serve to point up the inadequacy of cgi: the creatures' look belongs to neither the world of reality nor fantasy, just some pathetic hybrid. add to that the stiff performances of naomi watts and adrien brody (both of whom we know can do better), the amateurish emoting of a miscast jack black, and the superfluous storyline involving the always stunning jamie bell (if kong had ANY common sense, he wouldve opted for him over naomi) which merely gets dropped midstream without any resolution, and we have a gargantuan mess. i will certainly be eager to see jacksons next movie, but after this -- well, he better do good.
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