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Mighty Joe Young (1998)

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(65%)

Starring:	Bill Paxton \| The 4-Skins \| Charlize Theron \| Rade Serbedzija \| Naveen Andrews \| Regina King \| David Paymer
Director:	Ron Underwood
Studio:	WALT DISNEY HOME VIDEO
Run time:	110 mins
Genres:	Children \| Drama
Languages:	English
Released:	January 22, 2001

An enormous gorilla exhibits endless compassion and courage. In his native jungle he cares for and protects an orphaned girl who later brings him to Los Angeles to save him from ruthless poachers. However, once there, the man-made confines and threats from a new set of cruel and greedy trophy-hunters cause the otherwise gentle, but misunderstood, beast to totally flip out. Remake of the black and white classic.

Halliwell's Film Guide

An ecologically sound remake with splendid special effects, though it is no more successful than the original version as a successor to King Kong.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 3.0 stars
Not Bad Disney Film Shocker

AlPhilp from London, 11th July, 2005

Right, continuing my theme of checking out all available giant ape related movies ahead of Peter Jackson’s King Kong I had a look at this. It is in essence a straight up kids film but it follows the Giant Ape Film Rules perfectly - the story arc is ; Act One : Introducing the Giant Ape, Lord of his domain, Act Two : Giant Ape in captivity, Act Three : Giant Ape, er, goes ape – smash, crash, boom (and most importantly climbs up / falls off iconic totem of our civilisation).

What is more, whilst adhering to The Giant Ape Film Rules the film is very well executed: it is entertaining and even moving, and the special effects are pretty great too – the CGI and what I assume is puppetry is done very convincingly. So far 'King Kong' (1933) is the daddy of them all, then this for confidence, story arc and special effects, then 'King Kong' (1976) with its woeful effects and then, well, not even I dare go to 'King Kong Lives'… If you have a spare couple of hours check 'Mighty Joe' out.

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