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The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Sequel to the 1976 remake of King Kong. Turns out the giant ape survived, here he is given an artificial heart and falls in love with the recently captured Lady Kong. Things go wrong for the couple when they escape captivity & are pursued by the military. Much of the movie is played with tongue firmly in cheek but it also centres on human - and ape - emotions, i.e. the romance not only between leads Linda Hamilton & Brian Kerwin but also between the male & female Kongs. Special effects vary from reasonable to rubbish - check out the rubber Caiman crocs - but that only adds to the so bad it's fun aspect. Yes, it's an insult to the original 1933 movie but it's also quite easy to watch, just put your brain into neutral first!

This is sequel to the the 1976 remake of King Kong. It's a good movie. But King Kong (1976) it better. King Kong (1933) is better. King Kong (2005) is better. There is a sequel to the original King Kong titled Son of Kong. That one is also better.Then there is part three to the original series King Kong vs Godzilla also better then this one. Then there was part four King Kong escapes also better. This is my lest favorite King Kong movie. But I still say it's very good see it. It as great acting. Great special effects great story. It very scary. I need more lines. Great movie Great movie. Great movie. Great movie. See all the King Kong movies. See all the King Kong movie. They are all awesome.

It shouldn't have been made. King Kong Lives opens up with a recap of the ending of the 1976 movie with a man in a gorilla suit falling to his doom from the World Trade Center eating up the first 2 minutes with scenes, people always saw. By 'doom' I meant sequel without most of the main cast of the first movie returning. Instead the audience get groom for a new cast of people. King Kong is being treated up and kept in a coma for the last 10 years for some odd reason despite him killing people and damaging parts of New York in the last movie. Surgeon Dr. Amy Franklin (Linda Hamilton) for a science reason not explains wants King Kong alive so she must perform a heart transplant and give Kong a computer-monitored artificial heart. However, she needs Kong blood to pump it. Adventurer Dr. Livingston Rip off Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin), just capture a giant female gorilla for plot calls for it and brings her to the Atlantic Institute where King Kong is kept. The transfusion and the heart transplant are a success, but Kong escapes along with the female with Hank's help. Hank is willing to kill US soldiers to protect two beasts from getting killed and risking normal Americans live with allowing two giants apes to go loose in the country side is stupid. The two apes escape to Honey Moon Ridge as the film really trying too hard to get the audience interested in disturbing animal love making. Those close ups on the two big apes falling in love was painfully to watch and cheesy. Kong destroys the natural habitation of the swamp by feeding on the whole alligator population. Somehow, baby alligators are able to turn into crocodiles when close up on him holding their in his hand. Archie Nevitt (John Ashton), an insane army lieutenant colonel, is called in with his men to hunt down and kill the two apes. He's very stereotype Pattonism. Stupid redneck hunters are sent to kill him as well in stereotype fashion. While the redneck fail, Lady Kong is captured alive by Nevitt's troops and imprisoned; Kong falls from a cliff and is presumed dead in the water, but soon returns to rescue his mate. After being attacked, and shot by the military. Kong kills the military colonel and dies slowly at a military base. After this event, Lady Kong is back on Kong Island for unknown reason with her newborn son whom King Kong was able to see and touch before his death. However, the film rarely points out that Lady Kong was even pregnant leaving the question when did Baby Kong came to conception during the short period of time spent together. If Kong had sex with Female Kong in Honey Moon Ridge, how was them able to live out on their own for nine months. If Kong had sex with her in Skull Island, how come it took her 10 years to give birth? However, these questions will never be answer as a trilogy of movies were supposed to answer these questions was canceled due to budget restriction. Plus half the cast was either unable to return, or they simply didn't want to. The movie was bad. The men in the Kong suits were different in shape, color and size with each different frame of movie. People repeat the same mistakes in the last movie in this movie. The plot is predictable like all the Kong's movies. Stop making King Kong movies! The 1933 King Kong should be the only Kong movie out there. That's the only one that's OK.

When I was reading scripts and pitching story ideas to Alex De Benedetti (Dino's son-in-law although I wasn't aware of it at the time and future producer of "Evil Dead II", "Pumpkinhead"), I was asked by Alex to pitch a story idea for a sequel to "King Kong". My story had a similar type of resurrection to the one that is used in this movie but from there it changed sharply. The only way I could figure to make a sequel to "Kong" was to include a strong element of satire (which was, to some degree, in the 1976 film as well)and I also wanted to do a bit of a homage to the Japanese monster movies (like "Godzilla" and even the original "King Kong"). They went in a different direction-a horrible different direction."King Kong Lives" has a cheesy charm but the actors look like they are trapped in a film and looking for a way out. It seems Kong didn't die when he fell from the Twin Towers (wow, that's a miracle!); he's in a coma, needs a new heart (yep, they have a giant mechanical heart but Kong needs plasma--of course they find a Lady Kong for a blood transfusion and Kong, naturally, has big ape sex with the lady. Aside from setting up the potential for a family franchise (which didn't happen--"Lives" was a big flop), the ending could only have come from Dino (RIP)who dreamed big even if sometimes big wasn't better.I didn't see "King Kong Lives" until years after it was released (I had no desire really--it sounded kind of dumb)but when I finally did I couldn't believe how bad the film was. Luckily, the writer of this film went on to bigger, better and bolder things (Steven Pressfield who penned the script for "Above the Law" and the novel The Legend of Bagger Vance)but it seemed like this was a career ender for the director John Guillerman.For a chuckle you could watch "King Kong Lives" and you'll realize that what really lives in this film is the spirit of 50's cheesy B-movies on an "A" budget.