The director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, takes much of his inspiration from the original Skull Island sequence of the 1933 “King Kong,” with its storybook dinosaurs, and you may also detect the ...

Kong: Skull Island is not only a worthy standard-bearer in the giant-monster genre, but an excellent reminder of the genre’s appeal as both escapist fantasy and compelling adventure that pits ...

Kong: Skull Island posed major character animation, fur, water, and fire effects challenges for ILM and its collaborators. All these things of course might happen on any cg creature feature, but ...

Kong is the last of his family — all of whom also served as Skull Island protectors — and he takes his job seriously. It’s why he’s still alive, and it’s why the primitive people who ...

But for what Kong: Skull Island sets out to do, which is deliver a monster movie filled with the kind of action and destruction that audiences have never seen from a King Kong film before, it’s ...

"Kong: Skull Island" is a big, noisy B-movie infused with moments of wit and sprightly visual sophistication, anchored by what surely must be the most enormous version of King Kong since the giant ...

In the new, comparatively unambitious Kong: Skull Island, the big guy finally claims a perk of his eight decades of stardom: He gets to do the entire picture from home. Indeed, this new colon-ized ...

A scene from 'Kong: Skull Island.' (Warner Bros.) Warner Bros. John C. Reilly does his best Dennis Hopper as Hank Marlow, a half-crazed World War II pilot who’s been living with the locals since ...

“Kong: Skull Island” is more consistent and well-developed in its pursuit of the idea that the obsessive American quest for victory in Vietnam can only lead to disaster.

Call it by its actual title “Kong: Skull Island” or by its popular nickname “Apocalypse Kong.” Just don’t say it’s like any other giant ape movie. The latest stab at reintroducing the ...

It’s on like King Kong. The gargantuan ape returns in Kong: Skull Island, which arrives in theaters March 10 and stars Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Goodman.