King Kong, 2005

The 2005 edition of King Kong was hard to watch after the classic, 1933 version. Although the special affects were considerably better and the plot was mostly consistent, the characters evolved so much the movie became drastically different.
The scene when Anne dances to entertain Kong, is the first glimpse into the new Kong’s personality and at first he appears shallow, becoming angry and annoyed when he can’t get what he want but through out the movie Kong displays human like expressions and reactions that cause you to fall in love and truly sympathize with the oversized puppy.
With this new Kong there was some creative license to create a new Anne, in this rendition of King Kong Anne is not struggling like we saw her throughout the first movie, instead she too feels the compassion for the lonely, estranged giant.
In the world we live in today, it is not strange to see people become more attached to animals and people alike; making it easier for the producers to create an interesting Kong and Anne relationship however I feel as if the love between Anne and Jack was destroyed because of this, the quote, “I think I love you” in the first movie is recognized around the world and it is something that set the plot up for the romance between the brave Jack and the damsel Anne. When that relationship was robbed in this rendition of Kong I felt as if it lowered the quality of the film.
The verbal motif that concluded King Kong in the 1933 version was slightly corny but delivered perfectly for the time and fit in with the theme of the movie. In 2005 when Jack Black attempted to conclude the movie with, “twas beauty killed the beast” it seemed over stressed and misplaced.
It Is hard to judge the quality of this movie on its own; if I had seen the 2005 King Kong before I saw the original I probably would have liked it better than I did, but having known the greatness of the original and knowing what it meant to people of that time period I can’t help but feel the 2005 King Kong did the plot a great injustice by drastically changing the characters.