"Queen Kong - the Liberated Lady Gorilla!"
Yep, this movie was made. Sometimes that's the best review you can give a film.
A short history: In 1976, a pretty mediocre remake of King Kong (no, not THAT mediocre King Kong remake) was made, produced by Academy Award-winner Dino De Laurentiis. Just a short flight across the Atlantic, a bunch of Brits set to work on a parody titled... get ready... Queen Kong.
The film existed more or less as a vehicle to make PMS jokes about a giant gorilla. In the movie, an effeminate hippie named Ray Fay (Ray Fay, get it? GET IT???) befriends a giant she-gorilla and they have many zany gorilla-centric adventures.
At 0:01 - Kong! Kong! Kong! Kong!
At 0:40 - Ray Fay and the Gorilla wink at each other, setting the tone for the whole movie.
At 0:46 - Notice as the T-Rex's face squishes inward as it's pounded on. Through no small feat of suck, the monsters in this movie are somehow less realistic than the ones in the 1933 original.
At 1:04 - OH GAWD THE TEETH, I AM BLIND
At 1:05 - Love the muzak soundtrack to this scene.
At 1:08 - OH MY EYES THOSE TEETH, WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT>!>??
At 1:11 - AND AGAAAIANIANNIIN
At 1:20 - No comment on that punch.
At 1:30 - Strange monster plant = perfect opportunity for gratuitous ass shot.
At 1:38 - Yep, Queen Kong wears a bra.
At 2:35 - I think that lady getting punched was possibly the first intentionally funny part of the trailer.
At 2:50 - Just in case we forgot this was a British movie.
At 3:10 - And again. They don't want you to forget where this movie was made.
At 3:25 - The Queen Kong Song was certainly snubbed by the Academy.
The film had sunk into obscurity when a lawsuit from Dino De Laurentiis severely limited its release to a few European countries.
Strangely, though...
... the movie gained a huge cult following in Japan in the mid-90s, which has slowly spread west. Why Japan? Who knows. (Rachel, I'm looking at you...?)
"She's in one of her moods again!"
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