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King Kong (2005)

The 800-pound gorilla of 2005 holiday movies was Peter Jackson's loving, no-holds-barred remake of his favorite movie of all time, an old-fashioned monster movie/jungle thriller pushed to the limits with new technology by a filmmaker with both the skill and the heart to recapture the thrills of his adolescent moviehouse dreams. Naomi Watts is in the Fay Wray role, Adrien Brody is our human hero Jack Driscoll, Jack Black is the morally ambivalent entrepreneur Carl Denham, Andy Serkis is both the model for the ape and the crotchety cook Lumpy, and Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, Evan Parke and Kyle Chandler co-star. Winner of three Academy Awards for its technical achievements.

Peter Jackson's loving, no-holds-barred remake of his favorite movie of all time, an old-fashioned monster movie/jungle thriller pushed to the limits with new technology, is expanded by another 15 minutes in this Special Edition timed for the holiday season. It wouldn't be a Peter Jackson special edition without an epic length documentary and the 3-plus hour Re-Creating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of King Kong is true to his character, an exhaustive production that celebrates the collaborative excitement of creating a film. Also features a full commentary track by Jackson and co-writer/co-producer Philippa Boyens, over half and hour of deleted scenes, and plenty of other supplements.

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The 800-pound gorilla of 2005 holiday movies was Peter Jackson's loving, no-holds-barred remake of his favorite movie of all time, an old-fashioned monster movie/jungle thriller pushed to the limits with new technology by a filmmaker with both the skill and the heart to recapture the thrills of his adolescent moviehouse dreams. Naomi Watts is in the Fay Wray role, Adrien Brody is our human hero Jack Driscoll, Jack Black is the morally ambivalent entrepreneur Carl Denham, Andy Serkis is both the model for the ape and the crotchety cook Lumpy, and Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Jamie Bell, Evan Parke and Kyle Chandler co-star. Winner of three Academy Awards for its technical achievements.