This is one of the great movies of the 80s in MY collection that I think about all the time.

Some minor spoilers

King Kong Lives starts right where the 1977 version left off.KKL is very good movie and is really a super sequel.Its made very well and the acting and effects is very good but the movie is just plain sad.I guess all lovers of Apes will cry if they see this movie.I don`t want to spoil it it for you but there is lots of action and the film is never boring.I really like the scene where King Kong walks through the swamp and is all you see is fog then and black sky.That is so neat.I wouldn`t recommend this movie to people who dislike animals getting hurt.If you like King Kong but don`t like to see the great ape get hurt then I recommend that you see King Kong vs. Godzilla and King Kong Escapes.In them movies he is unstoppable.The music it terriffic! Its by John Scott.Its a great score.Overall King Kong Lives is great movie!

I never knew this film even existed until I ran across it in a second hand shop. With Linda Hamilton in the credits it was worth a try for the buck I laid out, even though messing with the Kong legend is always risky business. Equal parts camp and cheese, the film has it's occasional high spots amid the generally ranging low ones.

I got a kick out of an early scene when Brian Kerwin's character Mitchell uses the 'Can you hear me now' line some dozen years or so before those annoying Verizon commercials made it a household slogan.

The sit up and take notice scene had to be that enormous artificial heart that was going to be placed in the chest of the Kong that survived the fall from the World Trade Center in the 1976 film. Complete with footage of Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange from that less than successful remake, this film continues on to give new meaning to the term monkeyshines.

When King and Lady Kong see each other for the first time, their exchange of glances is worthy of the most ambitious 'Saturday Night Live' skit. So where does the King take his bride on their wedding night? - why Honeymoon Ridge of course. How was he to know she was afraid of snakes? The big ape certainly didn't waste any time when it came to the romance department though, here for the first time we learn about the real origin of the Son of Kong.

KING KONG LIVES is undoubtedly the worst KING KONG movie in existence, a film even worse than the remake which it follows. It's hard to imagine that a director who put out an all-time classic like THE TOWERING INFERNO was capable of making something this bad, but there you go. This film was written by the excellent novelist Steven Pressfield, but he has none of the talent on display that he would bring to a novel like GATES OF FIRE. The cheesy, family-friendly story sees Kong surviving his fall from the World Trade Center before hooking up with a mate, so expect lots of cutesy material and a ton of '80s-era cheese. Linda Hamilton has never looked more attractive than she does here, but she, like the rest of the humour cast, are wasted and merely deliver one trite line after another. The man-in-a-suit special effects look particularly bad given the era while this is the kind of film which just drags on and on with no end in sight. My recommendation? Give it a wide berth.