Mighty Joe Young (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1998 / Director: Ron Underwood / Actors: Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron ... / DVD ... more

Mighty Joe Young (DVD) ... released 22 January, 2001 at Walt Disney Home Video / Features of the DVD: PAL / Charlize Theron is the latest stunning blonde to be hanging around some big ape in a Hollywood movie, this one a remake of the 1949 semi-classic with echoes of the superior King Kong. Theron plays the daughter of an American researcher killed by poachers in Africa. The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen named Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary (Bill Paxton) from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the LA facility. The transition is not without discomfort but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands. Director Ron Underwood (City Slickers) uses a combination of special-effects techniques to give Joe life and personality, and he succeeds quite effectively. The requisite giant-ape-goes-amok scenes are all in place-a couple of them pretty intense--as is a conclusion that finds the simian hero performing a stunning feat of escalation. Underwood attempts to give a little modern spin to some classic Hollywood conventions regarding wild hearts lost in civilization and the results are pretty agreeable family fare. --Tom Keogh

Newest Review: ... where we see a group of men going out into the jungle in search of animals to kill. Amongst this group is a zoologist called ... more

... Greg who runs into danger when he encounters Mighty Joe in the hills. Jill comes to his rescue and stops Joe from hurting him. As Greg is taken off the hill and to the doctor he is told that he did not really see this woman or Joe but he knows that he did and he goes back in search of them both. Greg discovers Jill playing hide and seek with Joe and finally he talks to her and tell him that he wishes to help protect Joe. He tells Jill of a wonderful animal reserve in California where he works and how Joe could live th...more

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	Mighty Joe Young [DVD] [1999] Charlize Theron is the latest stunning blonde to be hanging aroun ... Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 2.88

Mighty Joe Young [DVD] [1999]
Charlize Theron is the latest stunning blonde to be hanging aroun ...

Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45

£ 2.88

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Mighty Joe Young (DVD): King Kong's Brother? No It's Mighty Joe! (634 words)
by - written on 07/10/08 (Very useful, 112 readings)
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Mighty Joe Young is a lovely Disney film which a saw a few years ago but also managed to pick up on DVD for my husband last week as he said he would like to watch it again. He is not related to King Kong as my hubby has told my boys but he is just another large gorilla! The film starts with a gorilla and a young girl both becoming orphans as poachers kill both their parents. The mother worked in the jungle looking after the gorillas and trying to stop them from being hunted and killed. The daughter Jill, played by Charlie Theron, promises her mother that she will stay in the jungle and continue doing her work and also look after Joe the gorilla now he also has ... Read the complete review

Move over King Kong (540 words)
by - written on 14/09/05 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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Everyone will have watched the original King Kong movie of the 1930's starring fay Wray, in which a Giant gorilla is captured on a remote and secretive Island, and brought back to New York as a showpeice, this is a love affair between an Ape and a beautiful woman, in which Kong's love for the woman is his downfall. Well Mighty Joe Young, once filmed back in 1956 has been rekindled in the up-dated version, and full colour, to its pre-decessor. The story is set in the mountains of central Africa, where a zoologist and her daughter are observing the gorillas, Jill Young the young daughter, instantly bonds with a baby gorilla (Joe). One night ... Read the complete review

Mighty Joe Young (DVD): Yawn, Yawn, Cry. (230 words)
by - written on 26/04/01 (Useful, 18 readings)
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So much of this film is predictable that the soppy ending ought to be shown at the beginning to save the waiting time. This if a good five minute story that has been stretched into a two hour movie. Basically it is the story of King Kong. A giant gorilla is found in Africa, brought to America, reeks havoc, but everything is fine in the end. Of course there is a girl, Jill Young, played by Charlize Theron, who is chased everywhere by a zoologist played by Bill Paxton. I never did get to know the name of his character. The story line is very poor. There are good guys and bad guys and the extremes are sickly and obvious. However, the ... Read the complete review

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