Wow. I'm amazed everyone is liking King King so much. I was MAJORLY disappointed. No one else thought it was like an hour too long? And...
SPOLIERS AHEAD...
I honestly would have walked out in the middle "Remake of Jurassic Park" hour if I didn't want to see the NYC ending...and then I really wished I DID walk out when I got to the whole Central Park "twirling on the ice" scene. People in the theater I was in were laughing during that scene...and everyone went hysterical at the whole "Beauty killed the beast" line.
What did everyone like about it so much? Are people really still entertained by 20-min raptor and brontosaurus action sequences? I mean, Jurassic Park was like 10 years ago. And did you really care about the cook? Or the kid? It all played like a disaster movie parody to me...introduce like 10 people you know are going to slowly die off...and then watch them slowly die off.
And what they did to the Denham character was a travesty. What were his stakes? What was his arc? In the original, Denham was this fearless adventurer who finally met his match, and his unwillingness to realize his limits and flaws led to his, his crew's and his city's downfall. Denham's Jack Black, on the other hand, started out a ****-up, ****** everyone else up, and then ended the movie a ****-up.
Sorry for the rant...I just was really pissed after seeing this one. And I honestly don't know anyone else who liked it except for you guys on this board. I'm just wondering what worked for everyone...