There are times when the plot takes advantage of its imaginative status and goes too far. On these occasions the customers are liable to laugh in the wrong way. A most tolerant audience at the Music Hall broke down now and then, but on the whole was exceedingly kind. It seemed that while a few details were too strong to swallow the picture, as a whole, got them. Neither the story nor the cast gains more than secondary importance, and not even close.
Technical aspects are always on top.
The technicians' two big moments arrive in the island jungle, where King and other prehistoric creatures reign, and in new York where Kong goes on a bender. Besides Kong in the jungle among other freaks to appear are a triceratops, a brontosaurus, a tyrannosaurus, a pterodactyl and a 60-foot snake. Kong battles three of them, including the snake. His first scrimmage with the tyrannosaurus, which looks like the better known dinosaurs, and it's a wrestling match the likes of which is never seen at the Garden. As an illusion it beats anything that follows, and there is plenty following.