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King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition (2005) (3 Discs)
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King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition (2005) (3 Discs)

Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody & Jack Black

Customer rating on King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition (2005) (3 Discs): 5 out of 5 stars ( 17 customer ratings )

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Special Features

 

  • Please note: the film is spread over discs 1 and 2
  • Disc 1:
  • 'King Kong' extended feature film Part 1
  • Audio commentary from director/co-writer Peter Jackson and co-writer/producer Philippa Boyens
  • Deleted scenes
  • 'The Eighth Blunder Of The World' featurette
  • 'A Night In Vaudeville' featurette
  • King Kong homage
  • 'The Missing Production Diary' featurette
  • Disc 2:
  • 'King Kong' extended feature film Part 2
  • Audio commentary from director/co-writer Peter Jackson and co-writer/producer Philippa Boyens
  • 'The Present': an original short film made by the cast of the film
  • Arrival at Skull Island pre-viz animatic
  • T-Rex fight pre-viz animatic
  • Kong's capture pre-viz animatic
  • Empire State Building pre-viz animatic
  • WETA collectables
  • DVD-Rom features: 1996 script
  • Cinemedia trailer
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Teaser trailer
  • Disc 3:
  • Introduction to 'The King Kong Archives' by Peter Jackson
  • The origins of King Kong
  • Pre-production Part 1: the return of Kong
  • Pre-production Part 2: countdown to filming
  • The venture journey
  • New York, New Zealand
  • Bringing Kong To Life Part 1: design and research
  • Bringing Kong To Life Part 2: performance and animation
  • 1996 King Kong conceptual design gallery
  • Venture design gallery
  • Skull Island conceptual design gallery
  • New York video
  • DVD credits

Review

 

The eighth wonder of the world!

Thirteen additional minutes of epic adventure, exotic creatures and awesome special effects make the King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition the definitive version of Peter Jackson's must-see, must-have action adventure epic. Exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpses of Jackson and his crew give fans an unprecedented window into the sweeping cinematic vision that makes the King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition a spectacular film experience that movie lovers will not want to miss!

It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) has found herself - like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression - without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque, she considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan. When her hunger drives her to unsuccessfully try to steal an apple from a fruit vendor's stall, she is rescued - literally - by filmmaker and multiple hyphenate Carl Denham (Jack Black).

It seems that the entrepreneur-raconteur-adventurer is no stranger to theft, having that day lifted the only existing print of his most recent and unfinished film from under his studio executives' noses when they threatened to pull his completion funds. Carl has until the end of the day to get his crew onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer, the S.S. Venture, in hopes of completing his travelogue/action film. With that, the showman is certain he will finally achieve the personal greatness he knows awaits him around the corner - and although the crew believe that corner to be Singapore, Denham actually hopes to find and capture on film the mysterious place of legend: Skull Island.

Unfortunately for Carl, his headlining actress has pulled out of his project, but his search for a size-four leading lady (the costumes have all been made) has, fatefully, led him to Ann. The struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham, until she learns that the up-and-coming, socially relevant playwright Jack Driscoll (Oscar winner Adrien Brody) is penning the screenplay - the fees his friend Carl pays for potboiling adventure are a welcome supplement to Driscoll's nominal income from his stage plays.

With his newly discovered star and coerced screenwriter reluctantly onboard, Denham's 'moving picture ship' heads out of New York Harbor... and toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee...

Customer Reviews

 

Customer rating on King Kong: Deluxe Extended Edition (2005) (3 Discs): 5 out of 5 stars

Average rating (17 reviews)

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars LORD OF THE APES!!

jh230377 | 13/07/2008 | See all jh230377's reviews (62) »

Wow, what a fantastic film. LOTR supremo Peter Jackson has done it again with a remake of the classic King Kong. Basically a gigantic Ape falls in love with an actress in Namoi Watts. Jamie Bell pops up as a crew member, whilst Jack Black steals the show with his classic humour. Adrien Brody plays a good character next to Naomi Watts aswell. Great to see Gollum in the flesh Andy Serkis (who incidentally also plays King Kong as he supplied the movements to be done with CGI). Great box set with loads of extra footage. Similar to LOTR Trilogy Boxset. Great stuff!!

Customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars Extended?

mallardb | 16/06/2008 | See all mallardb's reviews (7) »

As a big Peter Jackson fan and now King Kong fan I couldn't wait for the film on DVD. When I heard there was an extended edition I grew very excited but was let down when the mere 12 minutes of deleted scenes that had been added.
I was then surprised to see that there was over 40 minutes of deleted scenes on the first disc not added into the movie but standing on their own.

Expecting it to be like the Lord of the Rings extended films with all the deleted scenes added back into the movie I found having these delete scenes on their own made it so much less exciting especially when is says extended on the box and you are expecting the ultimate movie with everything put back in.

Shame but the film is still great and there's a load of extras you'll have never seen before so its worth it just for that but still a little disappointing.

Customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars KING of EXTRAS!!!!

ClonedSheep | 23/05/2008 | See all ClonedSheep's reviews (19) »

This DVD surely has to be the King of Extras....I've never seen any dvd with so much time and effort spent into making extras which people would actually sit back and watch.....i watched all the 3 DVD's in one go...including all the extras one by one.....

The DVD box is a paper slip case which holds all the 3 dvd's in 3 separate jewel cases....the jewel case themselves are marked as DVD 1 and 2 and then DVD 3 as extras....

For a fiver this is surely a keep......or u should buy this atleast for the extras which it has....

Amazing movie......and even more Amazing Extras....

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Technical Details

 

Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Colin Hanks, Kyle Chandler, Thomas Kretschmann, Andy Serkis, Evan Dexter Parke, Jamie Bell, John Sumner, Craig Hall, Mark Hadlow, Clancy Brown, Peter Jackson, Frank Darabont & Howard Shore

Peter Jackson

12 years and over

2005

Widescreen 2.35:1 Anamorphic

English ; French ; German - Dolby Digital (5.1)

English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German ; Danish ; Finnish ; Norwegian ; Swedish

3 hours and 14 minutes (approx)

Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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