The biggest problem most people had with King Kong was its length, it is not surprising that public reaction to the release of an extended version of a film of 3 hours or more Peter Jackson was almost the equivalent of a collective groan .
The surprise is that everything added to the expanded version of King Kong should have never been cut. More dinosaurs and more creatures and more action on Skull Island only improves the film, and one wonders if these scenes were cut mostly for time and pace, why not a little 51 minutes of pre-Skull Island snipped or perhaps a little too scenes from the Kong and Anna gazing into the eyes of others?
The scenes are more noticeable than a Ceratops and unleashed a funny scene of a sea monster attacking Adrien Brody and Co. while rafting on a river. The character development a bit more seedy behavior by Carl Denham (Jack Black) and heroic deeds by Jack Driscoll and colleagues add a little spice to the male characters literally overshadowed by Kong in the film. The spider pit sequence is also a bit lengthened with some more lines of Jack Black. Overall, a worthy 13 minutes of additional material, but the film still feels too long in the last act.
Special features of this extended edition are the special features that were absent from the first film version of Kong, including a commentary by Peter Jackson and behind the scenes features, describing the production of works of art from the Kong concept to the screen has the performance of Andy Serkis.
I enjoyed the extended cut, but I do not know that this film is best served along with additional hardware. It's not like the movies Lord of the Rings, where the additions enhance your viewing and understanding the world of Tolkien. Anyway, I will not complain about the dinosaurs and the raft sequence I was disappointed not in the original cut.
The surprise is that everything added to the expanded version of King Kong should have never been cut. More dinosaurs and more creatures and more action on Skull Island only improves the film, and one wonders if these scenes were cut mostly for time and pace, why not a little 51 minutes of pre-Skull Island snipped or perhaps a little too scenes from the Kong and Anna gazing into the eyes of others?
The scenes are more noticeable than a Ceratops and unleashed a funny scene of a sea monster attacking Adrien Brody and Co. while rafting on a river. The character development a bit more seedy behavior by Carl Denham (Jack Black) and heroic deeds by Jack Driscoll and colleagues add a little spice to the male characters literally overshadowed by Kong in the film. The spider pit sequence is also a bit lengthened with some more lines of Jack Black. Overall, a worthy 13 minutes of additional material, but the film still feels too long in the last act.
Special features of this extended edition are the special features that were absent from the first film version of Kong, including a commentary by Peter Jackson and behind the scenes features, describing the production of works of art from the Kong concept to the screen has the performance of Andy Serkis.
I enjoyed the extended cut, but I do not know that this film is best served along with additional hardware. It's not like the movies Lord of the Rings, where the additions enhance your viewing and understanding the world of Tolkien. Anyway, I will not complain about the dinosaurs and the raft sequence I was disappointed not in the original cut.
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