ada
the leading man is my tpye
Steinesongo
Too many fans seem to be blown away
SparkMore
n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues
King Kong 2 Dino De Laurentiis's sequel is a crap but funny and delightful,great budge but didn't get the target,but l honestly prefer movie like that than made on graphic computer,bad but not forgotten!! Linda Hamilton was a peak of his career and beauty than ever,John Ashton is fantastic as villain and died like a dog!!Resume:First watch: 1988 / How many: 5 / Source: TV-VHS-DVD / Rating: 5
Eric Stevenson
Well people, this is it! The worst movie for Giant Monster Month! I can't imagine any of the others being worse. Many people didn't know that there was a sequel to "King Kong" (the 1976 version at least) and it ended up being one of the dumbest monster movies of all time. Everything about this plot and story is so idiotic. It features King Kong who has been in a coma for the past ten years being cared for by a science institute. It's downright cartoonish to see all these giant surgical instruments being used. They give him a giant artificial heart but it ends up breaking him out of his coma.He gets a blood transfusion from another giant gorilla, this one a female. This is where the main idiocy kicks in. Why exactly where they keeping Kong alive? When he wakes up, they try to kill him. Why did they keep him alive all those years if they never wanted him to wake up? That's very stupid. Kong apparently develops some sort of psychic link with the female ape and it's as stupid as it sounds. They fall in love and it's disturbing how the female Kong was designed with boobs, somewhat. We get pointless scenes where these other people fall in love and it's all pointless.The female Kong is pregnant, even though we see no signs of pregnancy. Maybe I'm just ignorant of gorilla gestation. There's one scene where Kong is hit with a rock and blood is everywhere. Then we see him again with no visible wounds. That's very dumb too. The characters, even the side ones are annoying and useless. Why is the military chasing after these gorillas if they just want to go back to the wild? What did they think would happen by keeping Kong alive for a decade? It looks like Kong's eating giant crocodile toys at one point. This movie is dumb and ridiculous. *
utgard14
Laughably bad sequel to the Dino de Laurentiis 1976 version of King Kong, itself an epic ape turd. The ridiculous plot has Kong, having survived the fall at the end of the last film, comatose for ten years needing a heart operation. Problem is they need blood and he's the only giant gorilla around. That is until a female Kong is conveniently discovered by a wannabe Indiana Jones (Brian Kerwin). So he captures it and surgeon Linda Hamilton uses its blood to save Kong. Then Kong and his new girlfriend break free and go on the run together, stopping to eat snakes and moss and have sex. I can't even believe I'm typing this nonsense. This is a movie someone paid to make. What a world.This is awful stuff but it does have some so-bad-it's-good qualities. I can only imagine the room in which the screenwriters wrote this was filled with ganja smoke. Who wants to see a King Kong movie for heart transplants or giant apes falling in love and having babies? Sadly the romance between the apes isn't half as bland as the romance between the humans. Hamilton is fine in her role. She manages to keep a straight face throughout, which I imagine took some doing. She does have a couple of truly pitiful lines, though. Like when she is about to have sex with Brian Kerwin, she says "It's what primates do." For his part playing the man-child love interest who discovers Lady Kong, Kerwin doesn't impress but with the way the part is written he never really could have. The bad guy is Taggart from Beverly Hills Cop. He's really good at playing hard asses. His character's fate is hilarious.Because it's the 80s there are lots of vehicle flips. The special (ha!) effects, courtesy of Carlo Rambaldi, are pathetic. More guy-in-ape-suit silliness. The best things I can say about this stinker are that (1) It has quite a bit of unintended comedy (2) John Scott's score isn't half-bad and (3) Linda Hamilton looks stunning. The cinematographer obviously knew it as his camera lingers on her in every close-up. Best moment? Kong steps on a DeLorean. This is objectively not a good movie. How much enjoyment you will get out of it depends on your tolerance for movies so bad you can only find joy in making fun of them.
Aaron1375
Why they felt a sequel was needed to the King Kong remake of the 1970's is beyond me. That one was not all that great and did not perform all that great at the box office. Granted, this sequel is a less ambitious movie than that one and the effects are pure Japanese monster movies as it is mainly a guy in a rubber suit. The story is really off the wall as a female Kong is found and the old King Kong is revived with a fake heart of all things. Kind of a waste of millions of dollars to make a giant fake heart for a giant gorilla that for all purposes should be dead. Linda Hamilton plays the strange and mentally challenged person who makes the heart for the gorilla that can cause major damage if revived and since she is in it I am giving it one more star than I would have otherwise. That and the scenes of King Kong in a bloody mess are rather good too. However, the ending is just really lame and the special effects cheapness really shine through near the end of this piece.
