![]() ![]() Then there is odd man out Jeff Bridges, uneasily trying to anchor a potential blockbuster as a hippie scientist who stows away on the expedition. Lange, in fact, is orgasmic in nearly every scene – it’s no wonder the ape picks up on her come-hither scent. Any movie with Jessica Lange’s aspiring starlet Dwan orgasmically enjoying the heat of Kong’s breath after taking a waterfall shower is playing up the story’s inherent absurdity to the point of camp. Ballooning to gigantic proportions what was already a bulky metaphor – the gorilla as tragic, unrequited lover – this King Kong is for those who always found the saga silly rather than mythic. Less a remake of the 1933 original than a rebuke.
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