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Kinda boring but it has its charms… horny rage kong, Linda Hamilton’s hair, a Dino De Laurentiis production… I kinda dig it for what it is, a weirdo Sunday morning shitfest movie that I remember watching about 15 times on channel 11 when I was a kid. I love the 76 Kong and this sure as hell is a far cry from that… but somehow this shockingly managed to keep my interest better than the 2005 Peter Jackson offering—yikes. I’ve seen far worse.
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A completely needless sequel to the 1976 remake of King Kong. King Kong Lives picks up ten years after Kong was shot down from the top of the World Trade Centre. A rich company has been keeping the giant ape alive for some reason, but the need for a blood transfusion leads to the capture of a female ape which is also brought to New York. The plot is pretty lame and the action is even more lame. Everything really just serves as an excuse for Kong to be rampaging around, sometimes with the new female ape in tow, who is named Lady Kong and not Queen Kong for some reason. There’s a definite attempt to make the apes sympathetic.…
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I wanted to give this a 1.5 but Kong with his family persuaded me to give it a 2. But this film absolutely didn’t need to be made.
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Quickie: This direct sequel to the 1976 King Kong is as indirect of a direct sequel as you could get. Not only made a decade after the first but without any of the same characters or actors. It’s also just a weird movie, it starts with Kong getting open chest surgery and ends with him dying in front of his new born son. That might make this movie sound interesting but trust me when I say it’s not worth watching. The pacing is off and the story is so aimless it makes this movie feel longer than it is. Even though this movie checks all the Hollywood hack criteria boxes, an action scene here a romance sub plot there, it…
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Easily one of the worst King Kong features, this one scores lower on average than Son of Kong and King Kong Escapes. Honestly I think I enjoyed it more than Son of Kong, although not by much. Like these other two I mentioned there’s some charm, mostly in Linda Hamilton’s performance and Kong’s rampaging. I’m of the opinion that it could’ve had more action, but I think most others might be complaining about the lack of plot or the shallow characters. As is I found some enjoyment in it as I do most bad Kaiju flicks. Kaiju Films Ranked King Kong Ranked 1986 Ranked 1980’s Ranked Fantasy Adventure films Ranked Fantasy Adventure Films in the 1980’s Ranked Animal films Ranked Monster / Creature films Ranked Military / War films Ranked
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Now, this is more like it! No weighty pretense, tons of Kong (s), and a goofy streak a mile wide. King Kong looks like a bodybuilder, Linda Hamilton takes things deeply seriously, and there’s destruction ahoy: Jeeps get smushed, buildings are crushed, and hillbilly hunters are ripped in half. Kong even goes out like a Peckinpah protagonist. You can dislike the fact that King Kong and Lady Kong are constantly giving each other googly eyes and smiling like doofuses, or you can have a blast with it. Up to you! I’ve always been baffled by the fact that crusty old British director John Guillermin came back to helm this long-gap sequel (Ten years later!) after having such a miserable experience…
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King Kong list Oh the irony This is quite literally the MV Kong persona before MV Kong was even conceived. Occupies that same space as films like Reptiliucs and A*p*e* for me; it’s easy to view it through a lens of objectivity and say it’s nothing more than a valueless piece of cinematic slope and in fairnessI wouldn’t entirely disagree with that sentiment. However, the medium of film and art as a whole is one that I believe is best experienced (watching or discussing) when seen through the lens of subjectivity and if that be the case I’m not ashamed to admit I love slurping up some good schlocky slope. I won’t lie this isn’t some unappreciated gem…
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KAIJULY: MONKEE KONG So far most of the dumb, stupid and silly films have been in the Big Ape canon, not the Big Monkee one, but this one changes this by having a wild Kong tearing people apart as if they were a Hershey’s bar. Lots and lots of explosions. Also, Kong finally gets a lady he can get jiggy with, you know, without having to work some weird science. She isn’t blood, though? She was honestly kind of a surprise. That scene towards the end where Kong gets all teary-eyed—that was incredibly unexpected! Let alone get me dropping some tears! And that thing looked so damn cute. A lot of the emotions from our monkey amigos are conveyed through…
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King Kong in a coma I know, I know It’s ridiculous Apparently when a King Kong & a Queen Kong have a baby they make… a normal sized gorilla, full body hair and all. He’s certainly no Mighty Joe Young. This is completely unnecessary to begin with but it tries to have a little bit of everything. A little humor, a little of the humans fighting for Kong’s rights, a little of hillbilly shitkickers hunting and torturing King Kong so we’re reminded who the REAL villain is here: MAN, we get sentimental music as Queen gives birth, we get sad music when Kong is shot by the military AGAIN. All the beats are here, including nobody able to locate A GIANT…
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“Well we should have no problem identifying the enemy, their each about 50 feet tall, and they’re wearing their birthday suits.” – Military Dude, – Kong Ranked: boxd.it/1Tifo In this movie Kong gets mad because the human race keeps trying to cock block him. Not kidding, that’s his motivation. Yay, I got a universal Blu Ray player so no more of this worrying about regions crap. I can finally watch my region 2 copy of King Kong Lives, the sequel to the 1976 version that nobody wanted or needed but it exists and I have OCD so I have to watch it. Kong lived the fall from the twin towers (no empire state building in 1976 edition) but he is…
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Ranking the King (Kong, that is) “The movie is about Kong, about special effects, about jeeps being blown up.” – John Ashton It’s hard not to be a little charmed by the silly heart transplant scene, with its comically Brobdingnagian medical equipment and surgical instruments, and Kong’s heart being lifted out with a crane. It sets the tone for this bizarre sequel that nobody asked for. How you’ll respond to this is really down to what you’re in the mood for. It’s not the melodramatic blockbuster that its predecessor was. Much like Son of Kong, this is really just some light adventure fluff. There’s no real sense of danger. No emotional weight. Kong’s rampage almost feels played for laughs at…
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If Kong is the eighth wonder of the world, what does that make the team of doctors that successfully gave him heart transplant surgery after getting shot 10,000 times, falling off the Twin Towers, and breathing on life support for an entire decade Alamo Drafthouse Chicago Posters Challenge Italian poster / King Kong 2
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there was a black kid with a confederate flag at minute 20 with 41 seconds, so i can never love this movie. but it wasn’t bad ig, just wasn’t too mind blowing, nor mind blowingly bad. it’s ok
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Aside from the ape costumes, which were always a delight, I think the general movie experience is fun, but really only if you and some friends rip on it the whole time – there certainly is a lot of things that make you go “huh?” but also a few things that make you go “NO WAY!”
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Ostensibly, this is a direct sequel to the 1976 King Kong remake. The first five minutes here is footage from the end of that movie. We see Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange and Kong himself atop the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Kong is shot 100 times and falls 110 stories down to his death. But wait! Kong is NOT dead. He’s been in a coma for ten years while Linda Hamilton creates a giant artificial heart that can be transplanted…
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Movies are rarely as to-the-point as this anymore. It takes like 15 minutes and we’re already watching giant ape heart surgery
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King Kong love story we didn’t know we needed.
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Ambisi besar yang sayangnya nggak bisa nyamain kesuksesan film sebelumnya. Efek praktisnya masih seru, tapi ceritanya dan cara pembuatannya terasa canggung, bikin film ini lebih diinget sebagai tontonan kultus daripada sekuel yang bener-bener keren 😅🎬
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If you’re going to make something unnecessary and stupid, you might as well make it silly and odd Wins points over Kong ‘76 because at least it’s playfully ridiculous (when Kong and Lady Kong escape together, they wind up hiding out on a mountain called Honeymoon Ridge). This one’s also a pretty bad Kong movie, but, instead, it’s a really fun pulpy American kaiju yarn. It’s really the only one I can think of using traditional suitmation and Showa-era heightened…
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King Kong Lives King Kong Laughs King Kong Loves Surprisingly boring considering the sheer amount of goofy shit in this film, but I can’t completely hate on a movie that opens with Kong receiving a heart transplant.
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Wasn’t a big fan of this one. Didn’t feel like a necessary sequel and ultimately misguided.
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Alternate titles: Bride of Kong The Heart of Kong Kong Gets Laid Sarah Connor Meets King Kong Beauty and the Beast and the Other Beast Kong Gets a Jarvik-7/1000 eHeart with Wi-Fi Or James Cameron’s suggestion: Kongs I lived through the hype of Kong 76 but I don’t remember ever hearing about the sequel ten years later. One of its strengths is that it isn’t trying to be the biggest blockbuster of all time, and it thoroughly succeeds at not being that. As a drive-in B picture, it’s kind of perfect.
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Another movie that shows us how idiotic and testosterone led the US Army is, some things never change.
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The first Kong movie (from the ‘new’ generation) was in the 70s, and for that time, it was ok looking and some things could be excused. This one is far from the 70s and still looks like a 70s movie, some stuff definetely could be improved. The story is mid at best, where the hell did they find the Konga? At least I’m happy Konguito have a nice place to live.
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Three Kongs in the one movie? Talk about being spoilt, it’s not good but this film is a total guilty pleasure – entertaining trash all the way through.
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Need modern Kong to bone
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The sequel nobody wanted to the remake nobody asked for! Had a certain campy charm that I wasn’t expecting. And who doesn’t want Kong to get some love action! Musings: – Linda Hamilton plays the primate cardiac surgeon who specializes in xenotransplantation that allows Kong to Live. Bet that looks great on a resume! – Loved the oversized operating tools. Enjoyed how this movie doesn’t take itself seriously. – When Kong picked up what was obviously a baby alligator and…
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I liked the parts where 1) Kong gives Lady Kong (her actual name) a gentlemanly pat on the butt, and 2) Kong rips the drunken, southern hicks into literal pieces.
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It’s far from good but some of the effects sequences are actually pretty cool, plus Kong snaps a guy in half It’s hard to not at least be entertained at the ideas this film presents… giant ape surgery, Kong with a artificial heart, and Kong gets laid
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Worst Kong roar ever, My Best Buddy made me watch this movie, from start to finish. He spared his sons from this experience.
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Christian..you know damn well this is more exciting and entertaining than Exorcist II
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SPOILERS OR SOMETHING “Reasons” this movie is a masterpiece: Kong eating alligators like he has a handful of Twizzlers hanging out of his mouth. The open heart surgery sequence is horrifying. Kong snaps a hunter in half and after eating another one whole, picks their trucker hat out of his teeth. Kong crushes a Lamborghini Countach. “Oh no!”, one of the two preppies exclaims after they barely escape being crushed in it, “My dad’s gonna kill me!” Gorillas be horny.…
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Linda Hamilton is lucky James Cameron allowed her to be in terminator 2 after she was in this it’s not even that she’s bad in this but the movie is so bad I wouldn’t cast anyone from this movie in anything after this this has to be the worst King Kong movie it’s at least up there
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I used to watch this when i was like 6 All i remember is that they repair king kongs heart and he just wants to have sex the whole movie and then dies
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Linda hamiltons tit earned this a half star a full star even cuz this movie sucks
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Srogi kupsztal. Nie warto się męczyć dla kilkunastu minut rozwałki.
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Typowy sequel do zapomnienia, ale czemu gra tu Sarah Connor i klon Armiego Hammera?
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Haven’t watched this charming piece of crap in probably 30 years. Time has not improved it any, but it’s not nearly as bad as its reputation. It’s a men-in-ape-suits giant ape movie where Kong wakes up after a 10 year coma and the first thing he wants to do is get some ass. Fair.
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Basically a Godzilla movie with King Kong instead. Is it good? No, but not any worse than 90% of the Godzilla movies with men in monster suits and miniature sets and vehicles. Yet, Godzilla movies are praised for being bad and this is rated low.
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Insgesamt reichlich schräges Ding hier mit Queen Kong… Besonders in dem Moment als King Kong einen Aligator auseinander reißt und verspeist und ein Frosch ihm dabei zusieht, als wäre das das tägliche Abendprogramm 😆 Aber immerhin nicht so überdreht wie die modernen CGI-Massaker 🙄 Fühlt sich ein bisschen an, wie alte Animatronik-Attraktionen in einem in die Jahre gekommen Freizeitpark, in den sich alle paar Wochen jemand verirrt. Den es nur noch gibt, weil sich Leute dort treffen, die gern in Gorilla-Kostümen rumrennen. Kleines Highlight: Ich wollte schon immer mal sehen, wie ein Countach platt getrampelt wird 😄
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A not so good sequel. I liked some aspects of this movie but for the most part it was kinda boring.
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I am a bigger fan of 1976’s King Kong than most, but I’d avoided the sequel for a long time due to its reputation. Having finally watched it, I don’t think I would go so far as to recommend it for anyone else, but it did end up being surprisingly for me. The film is very much a throwback to the decade prior; it doesn’t feel much like an ’80s film beyond the hair styles (and even then, if you said…
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This sequel to the 1976 King Kong movie does pretty good for being a sequel and hides the fact that it’s a giant monkey suit well enough with awesome effects and radio controller full sized vehicles. It’s impressive what they did with this and it’s worthy of a Godzilla movie. I lucked out when I first saw this. I watched it with Godzilla 85 in a double feature when I was really little and it made me go “wow”. It…
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Kaiju Mega-Marathon II #15 (#48) King Kong does indeed live, though it’s hard to say why. The 1976 King Kong was considered a commercial and critical “disappointment” (though hardly a flop), which halted any attempts at an immediate sequel, but for some they tried again a full decade later and… well, I wouldn’t exactly say they succeeded, but the film exists. Once again directed by John Guillermin and produced by Dino De Laurentiis(‘s wife), King Kong Lives doesn’t seem to…
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“The other monkey’s gone apeshit!” Continuing my Godzilla/Kong watch-through, doubling back from Godzilla vs. Destoroyah to check this out. I liked the Guillermin’s King Kong and heard this was buns, but no bullshit it kinda fucking rips! Phenomenally camp – it’s a send-up of bad kaiju movies, except that it low-key is one. I refuse to believe this was not intentional! Seriously, watch Kong bonk someone into the ground and leave their legs sticking out like Looney Tunes and say…
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King Kong gets a handjob in Atlanta, Georgia. Listen, it’s not a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but I can’t say I wasn’t entertained. It has some pacing issues, but on the whole it’s pretty fun whenever the apes are aping. It’s a bonkers b movie with robot hearts, giant ape sex, evil rednecks and eviler army men. Go in expecting fun trash and
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A direct sequel to King Kong 76, where Kong gets an artificial heart transplant, meets Mrs Kong, and FUCKS SHIT UP. it’s so silly and the right amount of.. shitty-ness that it makes this a fun Sunday afternoon watch. In a similar vein to an old 80s cartoon, or back in the days of cable Kids today won’t know what I’m about to say and I’m officially unc thanks to my best friend literally having a child a month ago…
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Sure, King Kong lives but the franchise dies. What kind of trade off is that?
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SSibling Cinema 6 月 23, 2026
I don’t understand how this happened on so many levels. ~P
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Compared to the last two Monsterverse films today, I’d say this is a lot more fun of a watch in contrast to those. Say what you will, but Kong standing up against the military is still quite the climax in my book.
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Run for your lives everyone it’s horny Kong!
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I wouldn’t try to call this a good movie, but the fact that this movie is seen as a completely awful movie is a little harsh. For me it’s a fun adventure flick that has good effects and neat action. Say I have a monkey brain but I had fun with this. Again though, I’m not necessarily calling it good, but maybe fine and fun.
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延续前作的基调，继续书写人类对金刚一族的剥削和伤害，然后做了一组人类的对照，有伤害就有保护。核心议题非常的健康自然。
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The other monkey’s gone apeshit! They did surgery on a great ape. This is the only King Kong film I hadn’t seen before and for whatever reason I just assumed it was the worst, but it was actually pretty fun. Way cuter than what I was expecting. I clapped when Lady Kong hit that classic gorilla pose when she sat down. I hope Kong gets a girlfriend in GxK: Supernova.
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Ciclo de Cine clásico 📜 Una secuela totalmente innecesaria, en este film no saben como utilizar a Kong, solamente es resucitado para matarlo nuevamente. Me gustó ver a Linda Hamilton, me gusto ver a Kong y a su compañera. Pero es una película que solamente se deja ver.
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There was a moment in this when Linda Hamilton was wearing a black turtleneck and I assumed she was wearing shoulder pads but then she took off the turtleneck and I realized her back was more stacked than pancakes. Also this was bad
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Piece of trash. Linda Hamilton avait besoin d’un chèque rapidement…
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It’s more watchable than the previous film, but I have the same issues: boring characters and a somewhat dull movie, though I did like the ending—it’s better than the previous film’s.
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I don’t mind it, it has Kong doing kong stuff Sam Jimmy Scavenger Hunt 3 – favorite animal (mmmm 🦍)
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I would have preferred my wife walking in on me furiously jacking off to disgusting pornography than me sobbing to the surprisingly emotionally enthralling finale of King Kong Lives… but here we are. It’s a fun monkey lovin’ time!
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ultimately feels a bit boring and unnecessary, especially when they resurrect the title character only to kill him again. all this to say that i really did enjoy the Queen Kong, she was a nice addition and should be brought back in modern adaptations.
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This thing fucking stinks As a fan of the 1976 Kong movie that Guillermin also made, I went into this with high hopes and am sorely disappointed. Almost nothing about it works – this story is an absolute travesty, characters are not believable, acting is bad, the effects are def worse than the 76 one somehow. Complete disaster in almost every way, bar like two scenes maybe. I would even go so far as to say I liked Son of…
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Pourquoi trois étoiles et demi ? Parce qu’on passe un sacré bon moment. On ne joue clairement pas dans la même cour que son prédécesseur de 1976 (pourtant déjà réalisé par Guillermin). Tout d’abord, le réalisateur et ses scénaristes injectent une certaine dose d’humour absent du film précédent (peut-être pour mieux faire passer la pilule d’un script qui enchaîne les situations wtf à commencer par la révélationque, et non, Kong n’est pas mort, il est dans le coma depuis 10…
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It is kinda terrible, the acting is bad, it’s mostly shot in the woods, the green screen effects are outdated and it doesn’t make any sense but I still have a soft spot for this film. I must’ve watched this about a 100 times as a kid. Also, being honest, the whole baby kong birth scene is actually fairly well done. Imagine if that was in a better film.
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I always have time for Linda Hamilton but Brian Kerwin is no Jeff Bridges. If King Kong was chilling in intensive care in Atlanta for a decade during the 80s, Ted Turner would def have tried to buy him and possibly make him play for the Hawks.
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I really love a fun dumb movie. This isn’t fun enough. Dumbness is on point though. Needed more snapping into rednecks like Slim Jims.
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I still find King Kong Lives enjoyable, it’s a sweeter more wholesome film than the darker and more serene 1976 remake, but it lacks the sense of gravity that attracted me to that flick. It seems time mellowed out John Guillermin or perhaps it was the fresh ideas from the new writers brought on board. I mean Kong meets a Lady Kong! That’s such a novel concept and the film runs with it well. It’s more or less everything else…
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Me lastima que ni muerto dejen en paz a Kong. Lo reviven para rematarlo de nuevo, además el ritmo de la película no es muy bueno.
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this is a cute summer ish action movie i don’t get why it did bad at the time like it’s not the best king kong movie but it doesn’t completely suck!!! the concept of adding a lady kong is fun and their little romance scenes are so cute!!! i do kinda like the main ish couple too they’re not bad to follow :3 and then they had a baby that’s just so adorable to me 😭😭 i knew when she said she lost the machine/device for his heart transplant that the title lied to me and i was about to get really sad at the end😑
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Даже у огромной гориллы есть семья Кинг Конг жив является сиквелом к Кинг Конгу 1976 года. Первая часть конечно же выдалась больше второй. В этом фильме герои поверхностные, наступают на одни и те же грабли. А сам фильм было невыносимо скучно смотреть. Должное стоит отдать по настоящему трогательной концовке.
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Dear Diary, BOX OFFICE PUNISHMENT DAY 3: “We’re primates too” This feels like a calm before the storm. It’s not an awful movie, it’s just a bit boring. Following the events of the 1976 King Kong, it turns out after being shot multiple times and falling from the Twin Towers, Kong just had a bad heart. My dear friend Tyler chose for me to watch this. Why all the sequels? I feel it has something to do with me making…
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America’s biggest hero is back… and he is not happy. Didn‘t America think he was bad and try to kill him.
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A stupid movie, and not in a good way. a 10 year coma, a heart transplant, bad comedy, mostly boring overall, doesnt add to King Kong 1976, and seemingly is supposed to lead into its own sequel that never happened. Why was this made.
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Might be the worst movie I’ve ever seen. Kong with a heart transplant?
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“We’re primates too.” An hour and forty-five minutes of vaguely decent human drama with a sprinkling of giant ape romance. I think the special effects are pretty solid but if you’ve, say, watched twenty-two odd kaiju flicks in succession before this it does get to a point where that magic just can’t sustain something that really has no reason to exist.
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Fantastisch
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It was alright althou it wasn’t great as the first
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Day 20 of Godzilla x Kong-athon You know, for a movie called King Kong Lives, he dies at the end…. Yeah. Pretty bad. Can’t believe I liked this when I was a kid… Gonna be a while to get back to another Kong movie. Apparently there’s an animated remake of the 1933 film called The Mighty Kong, I haven’t seen it but I’m curious. Now we get back to Godzilla with Godzilla vs. Biollante
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Is this a good movie? No, not really. But Kong tears a guy in half then eats a dude and picks a boulder out of his teeth. And did I mention the giant artificial heart?
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The nutritive equivalent of a bowl of fruit loops, this unlikely sequel strove to accomplish one thing, to remove your dollars from your pockets. There is no coincidence this came out just after Linda Hamilton’s appearance in The Terminator, money was the goal and nothing could stop them. A subpar script? Didn’t stop them. Special effects that looked phoned in? Nope. The only real quality here was the ham acting that gives this Kong that fruit loops speciality, that Saturday morning cartoon feel that made the 1976 version seem Oscar worthy. It’s OK, don’t expect much.
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The dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. Better plot coherence, dramatic stakes, and special effects in friggin’ H.R. Pufnstuf episodes. Jesus.
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The movie starts off strong, but becomes very uneven in terms of plot as it jumps from one topic to another. Alrernating scenes of people being ripped in half with the apes giving each other googly eyes also feels weird. I liked the miniature work (Kong chomping alligators is definitely fun) and the apes are quite expressive, making them feel like sympathetic characters instead of monsters. But sometimes a bit too expressive, like Kong faking an injury to get some nookie. Overall it’s OK, could have been better.
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A sequel to a film I thought was alright, and this film was… alright? The good: Uhhhhh. The Suitmation was good. Kong and lady Kong were a cute couple. Kong freaking rips people to shreds. The main heroine was actually really cool and a massive improvement from last films, a strong smart female character with agency is what we like to see. The bad The scaling in the film is totally off. Pacing is so weird, it was a good…
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– This movie was made just so they could write someone saying “ape shit” – Lady Kong is an interesting gender swap idea even including her being interested in a human man. However, that doesn’t last very long as she has her relationship with King Kong. – The Kong romance is so cute, they are so snuggly and adorable. Get yourself a man who treats you like King Kong treats Lady Kong. Somehow, this turned on the human characters. -…
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“When we came up with the idea, Dino was very skeptical and didn’t want to do it. ‘It’s hard enough to accept that there’s a King Kong but since he’s been around for 50 years he’s become a pop cult hero. No one is going to believe a female ape.’ I said ‘Dino, he had to have a mother.’ and he said ‘By God, you’re right, I never thought of that. There can be a female!’ and we went with it.” —Screenwriter Steve…
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So so awful but the moment Queen Kong showed up with weird gorilla boobs I started laughing and didn’t stop for the next hour and forty minutes
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Man I’m already regretting watching these lesser known Kong movies because most of them sucked and the only good King Kong films were the original, the 2005 Peter Jackson remake and the Monsterverse movies maybe that’s why I am more of a Godzilla fan than a Kong fan
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FFilmWriter aka El Capo 5 月 4, 2026
I saw this shit for 80s Linda Hamilton . The only good thing I can say about the movie. Should have been called King Kong family legacy lmao.
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la peor película del mundo pero la amo desde que tengo 2
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“King Kong lebt” ist eine Fortsetzung die KEIN Affenarsch gebraucht hätte und anscheinend wirklich nur aus monetären Zwecken gedreht wurde. Klar, Filme werden hauptsächlich gedreht um damit Geld zu machen…aber dieser hier besonders. Da wurde einfach auf Krampf die Story so zurechgebogen, damit dieser Film überhaupt irgendweine Daseinberechtigung hat…nee, nee, nee…um so mehr ich jetzt im nachhinen über den Film nachdenke um so verärgerte werde ich und bevor ich die Wertung gleich von 2,5 auf 2 Sterne oder niedrieger einreiße, höre ich jetzt lieber auf und esse entspannt eine Banane. Service-Information: Gesehen, wo/wie?: DVD, Sprache: Deutsch
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Damn is this embarassing. Linda Hamilton tries to act the crap out of this disaster, but nothing can erase the sequelitis “we still have monkey suits we already paid for”, the audacious yet bizarre return of dead Kong “heart transplant!” the stepdown in cinematography and effects “Rick who?” nor the ridiculously tedious finale “military bad, love good!”
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N’importe quoi ! 😂 Une opération chirurgicale pour sauver Kong pour le retuer à la fin, vous êtes génies les scénaristes !
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The sequel to the 1976 Kong is not great ngl. The plot is a bit silly overall, the effects are not good and contains two love stories, but only one is believable, sorry Hank. However it is still a pretty good double feature with the 76′ Kong, has post Terminator Linda Hamilton in the lead, the music is pretty good, it’s inventive and camp. Not an essential watch but fun time for sure.
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The person playing Lady Kong from inside the suit is George Antoni, meaning that he is quite literally a man trapped in an afab body. Thus, I submit that the ape born as Lady Kong is a trans man, and the relationship depicted is actually very gay. This is my canon, don’t @ me. 🏳️🌈
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Better than i expected! Linda Hamilton! Unfortunately King Kong is giving Harry and the hendersons in this. They never even give the female king her own name… just Lady Kong. Just as i was getting kind of lukewarm on the whole story Kong rips a guy in half, eats another guy. He should have killed more tbh. No real big city smashing, the model work is fine really with a few good moments. Spoiler: they should have called this Kong lives, then he dies, then he lives, then he dies, then he lives one more time before dying at the end. Made me miss Godzilla.
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“I want that ape’s head on the hood of my pick-up..!” How to put this? I never expected this utterly unnecessary sequel to John Guillermin’s ’76 remake (with the director returning) to be any good. And I wasn’t disappointed. However, I was actually expecting worse. So comatose Kong re-awakens, gets a girlfriend, then they go on the run from the military; and rednecks. The latter group is dealt with appropriately (and quite brutally). Never boring; but also never any good. I’m glad I’ve eventually watched it though. Just so I can say I did…
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RRock 4 月 26, 2026
Some goofy stuff to enjoy like Kong getting open heart surgery, and Kong and his girlfriend are really cute together. That being said, there’s no sense of awe like the last movie, the cinematography is a lot flatter, and setting Kong’s rampage in the suburbs makes the whole thing feel pretty low rent. Anyway, I hit the spoiler button so I’ll give this away: Kong’s baby is just a regular sized gorilla. Based on that technicality, I’m including this in the gorilla suit list, even if I didn’t particularly care for it.
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I could never get into the ’76 Kong remake but this sequel, which was released a whole decade later, is awesome. I mean the film opens with Linda Hamilton performing a heart transplant on the big guy with oversized surgical instruments and it just gets better from there.
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I would argue hard that there’s an actual ‘art’ to the manner in which a bad film transcends itself into something actually good / enjoyable / interesting despite (or even because of) itself. Something like THE THING WITH TWO HEADS exists on its own plane of incredulity whereby somebody didn’t just think up the idea of a white racist finds that his head has been transplanted onto the body of a black convict for them both to share, they convinced…
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J
Still definitely one of my top guilty pleasure flicks, even if the logic makes less and less sense every time I watch it. The story, following the resuscitation of Kong a decade after his fall alongside the miraculous discovery of a female of his species, is a complete mess that still finds a lotnofbplaces to be charming and even funny at times. A lot of the human characters are quite dull and its a wonder how they got Linda Hamilton…
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He does do that
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I love ‘76 Kong, but this is absolute ape shit.
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2026 History of Horror Challenge: Week 16: 80s Monster I’m amazed that I never knew that Lady Kong existed, but at the same time I’m not amazed this fell into the pop culture memory hole because, shockingly, it was Not Very Good.
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“That horny son of a bitch” King Kong looks like a guy that hangs out in his van in front of Gold’s Gym and has a big human penis that needs to be worked. Infinite slow motion shots of Kong’s stupid face pads this thing by about an hour and ultimately has it feeling like Begotten as we cut to Kong agonizing over every cut, gash, lash or whatever familial heartbreak he’s experiencing for the last 20 minutes of this. Absolutely…
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B
The 1976 remake of King Kong got a sequel 10 years later, and not a good one. The premise itself is really preposterous. Kong didn’t die at the end of the previous movie but went into a coma and people are trying to revive him for some stupid unknown reason. Oh, yeah, there also happens to be a Lady Kong who is instrumental in this plan and the two fall in love. Yeah, sure. Not only is it ridiculous, but the…
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B
Smh I need to stop watching ape movies. If this were made today they would have made Lady Kong have huge eyelashes, a snatched waist, made her smaller, and given her a fat rack to make sure we knew she was the girl and King Kong was the boy. Maybe would have made her pink too. So I’m glad they only went with giving her a fat rack. It’s the respectable decision. It was just kind of boring during all…
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the amount of times my partner said “omg that’s us” in this movie has to be a new record less about destruction more about the personal relationship between King Kong and “Lady Kong” and some parts I was here for it while others were tiresome for sure definitely was not expecting King Kong to die in a movie called King Kong Lives
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Empieza decente, la trama es un poco absurda pero tiene potencial de ser entretenida, los trajes son más baratos pero se perdona porque no se toma muy en serio a si misma (y aun con esas, los efectos en general son mejores que en la anterior). Pero al rato la peli pierde el rumbo, hay un plazo como de media hora en la que no pasa prácticamente nada importante y es solo Kong dando vueltas en el bosque esperando al climax. Aun con esas la disfruté más que la anterior, justamente por ser menos seria, pero sí tiene sus problemas serios.
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Huge step down from the 1976 remake, it’s not unwatchable but it’s certainly bad.
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Bummer of a sequel. Monkeys don’t look as good, and yes I did say monkeys cause there was another big ass lady Kong the whole time. It’s kinda boring, real cheesy and the monkey love doesn’t really pay off, I mean it does but you know what I’m saying. I’m glad Dino didn’t make a third but you know he was thinking about it with that ending.
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E
story ok suspence ok atmosphere decent action boring character development little pace good overall bad
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Linda Hamilton, gość wyglądający i grający jak dziecko dziecko Roberta Redforda i Rogera Moore’a, pożeranie myśliwych, masa śmiesznych momentów i najpiękniejsza filmowa relacja miłosna ever. KINO
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M
Just imagine the 1978 King Kong except with none of the sense of awe or dread. Still lotsa fun. Definitely works as a comedy 🐵
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Hot crap
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R
This movie is enjoyable as long as you dont think of it as a sequal to 76.
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Too much Kong romance, not enough SMASHING Why was baby Kong so tiny???
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March of the Ape-ril night 6: Queen Quong stars in a medical drama turned hostage crisis that ends with a baby the size of a thumb.
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This had such a weird story. King Kong’s girlfriend? And it’s essentially just what you think; both of them rampage. Production values were spotty at best.
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B
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my favorite part of this movie is the thought of two men flirting in big monkey costumes
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B
Cette époque où les suites nanardesques sont nées. Quelqu’un avait une idée, on l’adaptait direct sans poser trop de questions. C’est tout une industrie qui a du sang sur les mains.
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Después de caer de las Torres Gemelas, Kong permanece en coma durante diez años. Cuando su corazón comienza a fallar, los científicos diseñan un corazón artificial y capturan una simio hembra gigante para que sirva como fuente para una transfusión de sangre. Cuando Kong despierta después de su trasplante de corazón, siente la presencia cercana del simio hembra y los dos escapan juntos. Una película con momentos muy bien logrados, así como partes rebizarras. Vista con Nishi un domingo a la nochecita.
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B
Nothing: the movie. While not the worst movie I’ve ever seen, King Kong Lives is boring and has little going for it. I didn’t hate King Kong Lives, and none of it annoyed me, it just sort of, had a “nothing” plot that dragged its feet for the entire run time. This is the kind of movie that is no one’s favourite movie. You can watch it if you’d like, but I really don’t know how much you would get out of it.
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J
The plot of this movie is literally that King Kong is horny and the entire US military is deployed to stop him from finding Lady Kong because he just had heart surgery and having sex could be risky. Obviously it doesn’t work and obviously I cried at the end when King Kong meets his son and sheds a single tear of joy.
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Kong-a-Thon – Part 06: Kong starts the movie having full-blown heart surgery, spends the movie being horny for some Kongussy, kills a bunch of hicks at one point and ends the movie dying Infront of his newborn son. And yet this was still one of the most ass-paralyzingly boring movies I’ve ever seen.
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E
I’ve seen better looking female apes downtown. Horrible costume but the many scenes of them ripping soliders into pieces or the poachers getting murdered was solid. A significant downgrade from the first film and the plot is his too wacky. I like how they gave him a mechanical heart but the needed to go further with the sy-fy elements. Also the effects are significantly worse with many scenes at night looking worse than many suit-Mation done even before this film. …
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JJim 3 月 16, 2026
This is such a profoundly weird movie. Remember that time King Kong rampaged through Tennessee?
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Mmikebtaken 3 月 15, 2026
A lot of fun
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Ein (neues) 🩶 für King Kong.
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B
I think I need a palette cleanser. 😔. I wouldn’t even say this is bad, maybe just kinda boring, which is crazy because Kong is in a coma, has open heart surgery and he’s horny as ever for a damn booby kong but something is irking me. I’m getting pissed off for some reason every time I look at these guys.
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DDrewMcWeeny 3 月 11, 2026
I worked at a theater the summer this came out and I would stand in the back and belly laugh at all my favorite parts. This movie is deranged. In a perfect world, Peter Jackson would decide to remake this, but he’d do it as five movies. I would watch all of it. It would be absolute lunacy, but I would watch all of it.
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You know, this is almost interesting satire about the american government, what with two parties technically being on the same side but getting in eachothers way and trying to subvert one another. The keyword in that previous sentence was ‘almost.’ It is significantly more interesting than its prequel, for whatever that’s worth. (Nothing, it’s worth nothing. The bar is a tripping hazard the the devil’s wine cellar.)
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A dull and uneventful picture, that is unless you watch it on x2 speed, in which case it becomes very entertaining.
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Going back to his roots of taking imagery out straight out of “Birth of a Nation” King Kong finds himself on the run in the Deep South, where both the US Army and some local Good Old Boys have some mighty powerful things to say about his being there.
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The Howling 3 of the King Kong franchise
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RRyan 3 月 6, 2026
Look I appreciate this movie switching up the usual Kong movie formula but almost none of this works. There are ideas here that are solid and Skull Island eventually uses some of them well. Still any movie that has Kong eating Alligators in a swamp can’t be all bad.
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LLRiver05 3 月 3, 2026
Keeping the momentum going and finishing off the Dino De Laurentiis/John Guillermin duology. An oddity in the Kong legacy, yet it’s hard not to enjoy a movie that features robot heart transplant surgery, giant ape love story, and King Kong going to war with the worst of Reagan’s America. Triumphant 80’s action hero piece to oppose the previous film’s haunted fable.
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Watching two apes—who are clearly humans in ape suits— try to bang was not a movie I thought I’d ever see. Applause to Linda Hamilton’s hairstylist. Her golden brown locks while she took part in some “action-packed” scenes were FABULOUS!
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Ideia de gerico fazer essa continuação.Ressuscitaram o gorilão a força e o resultado é um dos piores filmes com o personagem.Ainda arrumaram uma paquera pro bicho. Os efeitos aqui são inexistentes e temos Linda Hamilton querendo pagar as contas.
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2026 First Watch: King Kong in Love…I can appreciate that this movie went for something different, and seeing Kong grapple with the heart of America and fall in love is sure something. Is it something good or something I wanted to see? Not really. It’s pretty glacial, and it’s filled with a whole lot of inconsequential nothingness. But then again, so is America 🤪 Anyway, it’s not as heartless as Son of Kong (1933) but still not entertaining as the good badness of Megalon, which is quickly becoming my measuring stick for such things. Wouldn’t watch again, but wouldn’t say it’s awful. (Watched in English.)
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Kong and the blonde guy set the standard Unos caballeros
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B
Better than expected. At its best when it’s Kong(s) fucking shit up, but unlike apparently everyone else on here I actually liked the surgery scene 🤷♂️
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i didnt care
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⭐️⭐️
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An 8 year old probably wrote this movie
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B
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One fateful night in 1976, King Kong fell off the Twin Towers. We heard his heart stop. We watched a crowd gather around his lifeless body, celebrating the creature’s defeat. Except, actually, no we didn’t, because the same government that sent helicopters to mow him down also sent a research team from Atlanta to collect his body. Kong, we find out, survived the thirteen-hour trip and the intervening decade, but he’ll soon die without a blood transfusion. As luck would…
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King kong gets a fucking heart attack and DIES
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I like how they did a heart surgery on the monke and the general being the dumbass he is goes out of his way to kill him
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WWesley 2 月 15, 2026
It’s fine, but fun, and that’s a surprise! I actually kind of prefer this. This sequel to the 1976 movie feels more inspired by Toho and Godzilla. We got: Lady Kong, artificial heart transplant, battles and destruction, and more! My favorite scenes are the one-offs where we see Kong smoking people. Hunters dynamite a mountain to trap him? Nah, you get torn in half or eaten. You’re just having a barn party? Sorry, Lady Kong has got to lie down.…
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Those hunters had it coming! Kong fighting the US military is awesome. Definitely one of the “weirder” entries in series canon, but I can vibe with it.
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“Somehow… King Kong returned.”
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Kknowyourroot 2 月 14, 2026
Liked this more than I expected, but wasn’t paying enough attention to warrant an actual rating.
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B
The ultimate ‘so bad it’s good’ film. Kong somehow survived the fall from the twin towers, and a decade later after a blood transfusion from Lady Kong he gets a mechanical heart. Not only that, he then goes on a horny rampage which results in him snapping people in half and eating them. It has to be seen to be believed. I can’t help but enjoy this film. It’s fun just for the huge ape carnage. I love the ending…
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Onbegrijpelijk dat dit door een grote studio gemaakt is. Onnodig bloederig vervolg op het misbaksel uit de 70’s. Wat mij zal bijblijven: Kong die een nieuw reuzenhart krijgt inclusief grote operatie attributen en Hamilton die hier serieus bij staat te acteren, Kong die een babyalligator in twee breekt die in close ups een grote alligator is, baby Kong, de mimieken van Kong richting de maan inclusief tranen. De opvallende green screen en miniaturen mannetjes, Tagart uit Beverly Hills Cop als main villain. Lachwekkend dom in die JAWS 3D trent. De 80’s wist echt niet wat aan te vangen met hun filmmonsters.
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S
Comes close to the quality of Godzilla from the early 70’s. Guillermin is allowed to have some fun and Kong is amazing.
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a bit cheesy but it’s nice to see kong get his dick wet
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D
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Bbigkingbadger 2 月 9, 2026
sequel to the 70s remake this 80s film is does a lot of leg work to get a story going and bringing kong back, problem is that its dull. So if you didnt come for the story how about the effects? Nope, they are cheap and a bit iffy. Not a great one
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É galhofa, mas divertido vai
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J
The original Kong sequel gave us his son. The sequel to the remake gives Kong a girl. An okay sequel ten years after the remake, the Kong design looks better we dont have to wait to see kong, all that build up to the king was in the previous flick. It has more fun, more killing and more ape. But compared the the previous instalment its not better just good and entertaining. And then it ended with the birth of…
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Spoiler alert: he does not
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My guy gets laid for the first time and then Mrs Kong fucking dies, poor bloke can’t catch a break
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You wouldn’t believe what happens at the end of King Kong LIVES
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Dino De Laurentiis returns to the well one too many times with this thoroughly insulting, thunderously stupid sequel to his 1976 remake. This time, we discover that the giant ape didn’t actually die from his plunge off the World Trade Centre; he’s merely been in a decade-long coma at an institute in Georgia, desperately requiring a giant mechanical heart transplant. To provide a necessary blood transfusion, adventurer Brian Kerwin treks into the Borneo jungle to capture “Lady Kong,” a conveniently…
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King kong get heart surgery and goes berserk! 10/10
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CChadman 3 月 4, 1987
In King Kong, he falls and dies. In King Kong Lives, we learn that that fall only hurt his heart. Time for a heart transplant. Yiup, that’s the movie. Not recommended
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Nobody gets thrilled in the movies anymore. They’ve seen it all. King Kong is a gorilla that stands 50 feet high, and everybody takes him for granted. Four redneck hunters chase him into the woods, for example, and set off some dynamite to trap him under tons of rocks, and then they tease him with burning logs. If these hunters were sensitive and thoughtful like the folks in the National Rifle Association ads, they wouldn’t tease Kong, they’d regard him…
- Synopsis
- After falling from the Twin Towers, Kong lies in a coma for ten years. When his heart begins to fail, scientists engineer an artificial heart, and a giant female ape is captured to serve as a source for a blood transfusion. When Kong awakens following his heart transplant, he senses the nearby presence of the female ape and the two escape to wreak havoc together.
- Director
- John Guillermin
- Writer
- Ronald Shusett, Steven Pressfield
- Studio
- DEG
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 105 mins
- Germany01 Mar 1989
- Spain16 Dec 1986
- USA19 Dec 1986
- Italy23 Dec 1986
- Japan27 Dec 1986
- France08 Apr 1987
- USA07 Sep 2004
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