Kong: Numskull Island

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2018)

Hey, I didn't expect the classic King Kong story that Merian C. Cooper gave us in 1933 nor did I expect Mighty Joe Young. The CGI special effects are, as to be expected , outstanding. One of the best scenes was with the giant arachnid(spider) amongst the bamboo bush.
The story is preposterous and somewhat implausible. It takes place in the 1970s, '73 or '74 during the waning days of the Vietnam War, but gives us a back story of some 20 to 30 minutes where we see two pilots, during the 1950s Korean War, parachute on Skull Island after a dog fight and knife fight before Kong makes an appearance. Back to the 1970s and John Goodman and Sam Jackson put together a team or expedtion of assorted characters and fly by military helicopters to the island.
CRAZY
What Island off of Vietnam would be uncharted in the 1970s?,this is what I asked of Gilligan's Island with the castaways on an uncharted island. WW2 had been fought out there, every inch was charted. Once the copters get to the island and realize danger and monsters, why didn't they turn back.
COMPARISON
This version of Kong and his fellow monsters made me think of and rewatch the 1975 film THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT based on Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. The two films are quite similar in storyline. Indeed the original Kong in 33 may have been influenced by Rice Burroughs's book as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD.
All in all good entertainment, I give it half-n-half, a positive for the ok CGI effect, a negative for the wacky story that insults one's intelligence.