Review – The Son of Kong

I can see why they thought this would work. The big ape turned out to be sympathetic at the end of the original, so why not make his kid a good “guy” from the get-go? Well, for starters he doesn’t even appear until more than halfway through. I assume that Willis O’Brien’s animation was too expensive to use for the whole picture, so they filled the first 40 minutes with irrelevant nonsense. Even after the cool animation gets started, the picture still sucks. It’s an unending bummer. Kong Jr. fights a cave bear that looks like a teddy grown to mammoth proportions. And the end is even more maudlin than pappy’s demise. I was also put off by wondering if they gave the monster white fur to distinguish him from his father or to make white audiences more comfortable with him. See if desperate