If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.
—G. K. Chesterton
2005
Waaaaay too long to get to Kong. An hour in, my 11-year-old son double checked the slip case, thinking that, instead of Jackson’s rollicking magnum ape-us, I had mistakenly grabbed some schmaltzy period piece about a struggling actress making her way in Depression-era New York. But once the film finally kicks into gear, it’s still a good time. Twenty years on, the digital characterization of Kong remains moving thanks to those deftly animated micro expressions and Serkis’ soulful mo-cap performance.…
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