The Name's Kong..... King Kong

Happened to watch King Kong last Saturday. One of my TAPMI classmate had come down from Mumbai. Spent the evening, at Spensers, with three of my classmates and the parents of the classmate from Mumbai. After idling our time in Spensers, we decided to watch a movie. So all of us headed to Satyam.

When we reached Satyam, the time was 9:15pm. When we enquired about the availability of tickets, they were available for just 3 of the movies. After deliberating for nearly 15 minutes, all of us decided to watch King Kong.

It was a pathetic movie. The King Kong appears just before the interval, i.e. approximately one and a half hour after the movie started. Till then the movie was telling the viewers in detail about the heroine. How she was struggling with her theater acting, how she was drawn into acting for this “special project” by the director. The movie also goes in length to show the love blossoming between the script writer of the movie and the heroine.

The “special project” was to shoot a movie is an island, which was unexplored by humans. No one knew about its existence, no one knew what existed there. The director had stumbled upon a map which would lead to this secret island.

The second half is the most unbearable part of the movie. Once the crew lands in the island, they are attacked by a variety of living beings. First, they are attacked by the tribesmen, then by the King Kong, then dinosaurs, giant crabs, giant shrimps, giant mosquitoes, giant leeches, giant bats and what not. The creatures keep coming and coming, there is no end to the threats that our poor crew faces in the island.

On top of this the King Kong falls in love or develops a strong liking for the heroine of the movie. He saves her from 3 T-Rex’s!!!

The crew manages to save the heroine from King Kong, and they also manage to capture it alive. They bring it back to their city, and put it on public display. The King Kong escapes, and is finally shot dead by fighter planes after it destroys half the city, during its search for the heroine.

The movie took 3 and half hour to complete, and since we were seated in the 4th row from the front, it looked like ages since the movie started. I was surprised that it was one of the costliest movie ever made, surpassing the record set by Titanic. All the money seem to have been spent on the animation, which bores you after a certain point of time.

Finally at the end of the movie, I was relieved that I could get back home and have a sound sleep. Luckily none of the slimy creatures haunted me in the night.