Review – Mighty Joe Young (1998)

Well, at least it’s not quite as bad as the de Laurentiis Kong. This tear-jerking message piece about the immorality of animal exploitation is a pale, Disney-ized shadow of the original. I guess it’s good that the studio would make a film that attempts to impress its largely youthful audience with the importance of conservation efforts. Still, I can’t help wishing that they could find some way to make this particular point without coming up with a cute (if sometimes excessively effect-y) protagonist who spends almost the entire film in some sort of nail-biting jeopardy. See if desperate