THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD


and the greatest wonder of all.

Because it's a story I've loved all my life, because it was the most fun I had at the movies all last year, and because it comes out on DVD today, I am compelled to issue a profound and passionate (if somewhat shameless) plug for Peter Jackson's brilliant and beautiful remake of King Kong. Though plenty of people saw it on the big screen -- where it was truly a wonder to behold -- plenty of people missed it too. And if you did, you shouldn't.

Rent it. Buy it. Borrow it. See it. If you already saw it, see it again.



King Kong is three hours and seven minutes' worth of cinematic wonders and amazements — amazing chases and rollicking battles and hair's-breadth escapes, wicked sights and grisly frights and edge-of-your-seat suspense, daring rescues and dinosaur stampedes and dangerous valleys and perilous pits and vertiginous heights and then that final, fatal climb — all packed into a sweetly, unexpectedly poetic story about loss and loneliness and that greatest wonder of all: selfless love.

Posted: Tue - March 28, 2006 at 04:51 PM          

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