Directed by:
Ernest B. SchoedsackComposer:
Max SteinerCast:
Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Frank Reicher, Victor Wong, Ed Brady, Frank Mills, Harry Tenbrook, Edwin Rochelle, Frank O'Connor, Clarence Wilson, Noble Johnson (more)Plots(1)
Sequel to the 1933 classic, "King Kong." Here, adventurer Robert Denham returns to Skull Island, where he found the original Kong. Though the island is populated by prehistoric animals, Denham manages to locate Kong's offspring, and rescue him from quicksand. In return, the appreciative, playful (and yes, loveable) ape makes sure to beat up any creatures that threaten Denham and his crew, but -- being a kid -- he enjoys fun and games, which sometimes gets him into trouble. But when an earthquake rocks Skull Island, will Baby Kong and the explorers survive? (official distributor synopsis)
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For me to be able to announce that the filmmakers had thought up this movie on the spot, they would have had to have thought a little about it. They didn’t. But despite the obvious shoddiness, the non-existent screenplay and miserable production design, it has a nice smack of exotic adventure and dime novel. And apart from this it is even funny in places, with pleasant detachment. Both intentional. It comes nowhere near the original King Kong, but otherwise, like father like son. Apart from knowing how to show his middle finger, here everybody behaves and expresses themselves like the protagonist of O človíčkovi! However, as a whole, this is, using today’s terminology, more of a “direct 2 DVD" affair, because there is much more talking (the first forty-five minutes) than action (the closing barely twenty minutes on Skull Island).
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"You'll never catch a monkey like that." - "Have you ever caught a monkey?" - "Have I ever...! Lady, you'd be surprised." The Son of Kong is such a pleasantly lightened afterword to the original story - lightened perhaps in every way from the naive story through the unnecessarily childish behavior of the title monkey to the humor and fights with monsters, which are actually not very exciting, but "only" perfectly animated. I didn't even mind that they didn't arrive on the island until the middle of the film, because until then Robert Armstrong in particular was a joy to watch. However, the ending was 100% successful.
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Once - after a full three quarters of an hour - the first trick sequences come, you get a different and more interesting movie, which, however, lacks originality. It's just a copy of what you saw in "King Kong". Yes, the battles between giant animals are still technically brilliant, and you can see how everything was already technically mastered at that time, but it doesn't change the fact that you've already seen it once and I must say that it could have been done a bit better. The only added value is the humor, which tried to make the audience laugh in the cinema, but unfortunately it was quite childish. It's a pity, if they had waited for a year or two, a more valuable sequel could have been made.
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