Adventure, Danger, an undiscovered island, a big gorilla and a beautiful girl, describes director Peter Jackson's latest film “King Kong.” The film is set in the same time as the original 1933 movie. Not many re-makes can stand up to the original but this seems to hold its own. The story opens with this down on his luck director Carl Denham (played by Jack Black), who comes across a map to this undiscovered island known as Skull Island, along with script writer Jack Driscoll (played by Adrien Brody) and actress Anne Darrow (played by Naomi Watts) and others serving as Denham film crew set off to find the island. At the island there is no warm greeting just savage hostile natives and big animals intent on bringing them to their end. There they meet Kong and in their pursuit of Anne end up bringing King Kong to new type of jungle… New York City. There the 25 ft. Ape and the modern world (what was known as modern at that time) of man collide.

For the most part, the film was enthralling and mesmerizing and stayed true to the time setting of 1933 and did not modernize it. Also the relationship between beauty and the beast are different where as, Peter Jackson gives it a little more heart, than in the 1933 version. The computer graphics were first-rate especially with the dinosaurs and King Kong, whose portrayer was Andy Serkis (who played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings). All the actors fell into their roles and played them well. Adrien Brody and Jack Black whose characters in this film are not meant to be heroes relay heavily on their strong personality that can be transformed under stress. King Kong is # 1 on the Box Office hit movie list.