âś… Entertaining, with a lot of intentional goofiness, more comedy than drama.
❌ There’s no King, merely an oversized ape—everything that establishes Kong’s power’s been cut from the island sequence.
❌ After the midpoint, screenplay and editing string plot points together as if on a speeding assembly line, and not everything develops organically, to put it mildly.
This de Laurentiis production’s release poster promises a lot more than it delivers.