Fox's King Kong (Animated movie)

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A CGI/animated "King Kong" is making it's way up Fifth Avenue. That is all...

Points to anyone who read that headline and remember it as one of the best accidentally-funny lines of dialogue in movie history: In the 1933 classic, King Kong's on a rampage, and a group of cops hear a calm voice on the radio, "Kong is making his way up Fifth Avenue...That is all." A giant ape is on the loose, isn't that enough?!?

But actually, Kong is making his way to the multiplex, again. Deadline Hollywood Daily reported Tuesday that Fox Animation will be bringing the movies' biggest ape back for a new CGI adventure, "told from the ape's point of view'" (which means, what, more banana breaks? A chance to sit and ponder that pterodactyl he wrestled from the sky?).


God knows, Peter Jackson's 2005 remake -- the second, after the 1876 Dino De Laurentiis-produced debacle -- didn't add anything special to the story, aside from a more human/ape-y performance from Andy ("motion capture guy") Serkis as Kong. Yet we have to wonder, will CGI do the big guy any more justice? Classic monsters haven;t benefited from the genre; animation didn't help Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame." And "Igor" a few years back was a bit brain-dead.


if we don't see Kong, in any year, tromping through real new York city streets, will it feel the same? Or will animated beauty kill the beast?

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