Los Angeles Times
"...KING KONG is the screen's ultimate Beauty-and-the-Beast fable, and it endures through the power of innocence that has all but vanished from the screen..." 03/24/1989 p.C4Chicago Sun-Times
"...KING KONG is more than a technical achievement. It is also a curiously touching fable....There is something ageless and primeval about KING KONG that still somehow works..." 02/03/2002 p.7 Total Film
"...The grand-daddy of all monster movies..." 04/01/2001 p.105 Premiere
"[T]he first Kong has something today's CGI masters are hard-pressed to give their monsters: a soul." 04/01/2004 p.67 Movieline's Hollywood Life
"[I]t's still the quintessential pulp saga, capable of popping eyeballs 70-odd years later without the help of computers." 11/01/2005 p.104 Entertainment Weekly
"[The] black-and-white granddaddy of beast-on-the-loose movies....The movie looks improved over earlier video and TV copies, and still packs a wallop..." 11/25/2005 p.87 Premiere
4 stars out of 4 -- "What makes KONG unique is its mix of hokum, horror, and peculiar poetry..." 12/01/2005 p.181 Rolling Stone
"[T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes..." 12/01/2005 p.92 Rolling Stone
Ranked #3 in Rolling Stone's "Top 25 DVDs Of 2005' -- "[T]he joy is seeing the 1933 original, complete with Max Steiner's classic score and once-censored scenes..." 12/01/2005 p.92 BBC Online 10 of 10
The classic monster picture that spawned the rest is not simply a venerable old cinematic relic that one is obliged to give a passing mention to. King Kong was created to grip and thrill like no movie before, and these basic principles hold surprisingly true today. - Almar Haflidason
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