It isn’t hard to figure out why director Peter Jackson chose to remake King Kong. He couldn’t have asked for a better backdrop if his objective was to have some fun outclassing himself, and his peers like Steven Spielberg and James Camerron. After watching this three hour plus magnum Opus, one has to admit that he met his objective, and more. One can almost picture him thumping his chest in King Kong’ish elation from the roof top and screaming ‘Now, watch this’, addressing himself for his work in the ‘Lord of the rings’ trilogy, and his friends for their work in the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise and the ‘Titanic’. The special effects in here are indeed a celebration of how far the industry has come, and of taking imagination and the required visualization to newer heights.

That kind of a penchant, to push the technological envelope ahead, does come with its own set of intrusive, but highly welcome, interludes during the course of the movie. But if you can stretch the ‘far’ in far-fetched a bit too far and go back 60 odd million years in time, instead of just going back to the 1930’s, you would enjoy the special effects that bring such riveting sequences as the Brontosaurus stampede and the T-Rex battle, in addition to the recreation of New York of 1930’s, the troubled ship docking at the Skull island, and the biplanes attacking King Kong atop Empire State Building.

With so much going on, on the technology front, the drama thankfully never takes a back seat and helps in seamlessly gluing the three distinct chapters (of the long prelude in New York, the island, and King Kong in New York) together to tell a reasonably engaging story - of the greed of a movie director, the selfless love of a writer and of the touching friendship between the beauty and the beast. All the performances are quite convincing, with that of Naomi Watts raising a cut above the rest.

There is much to nit pick in this movie, but inspite of all of that, it creates a mood for clapping, not for carping, for how Peter Jackson treates this subject so deftly and for how he shows what the movie industry is capable of. Bravo!

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