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The entire film takes place on Kong’s jungle island home (he doesn’t scale any skyscrapers - in New York or Dubai), and you could say that it’s more action-based and less ambitious than either of the “King Kong” remakes: the snarky, overblown, justly reviled 1976 knockoff or Peter Jackson’s good but still not good enough 2005 retread. The surprise is that “Skull Island” isn’t just 10 times as good as “Jurassic World” it’s a rousing and smartly crafted primordial-beastie spectacular. On that scale, “ Kong: Skull Island” would seem to have a lot going for it commercially, even if it was just another shoddy and cynical reboot of a reboot - which is what a lot of people are probably expecting it to be.

It was a depressing reminder of what blockbuster movie culture can get away with if the monsters are big enough and the franchise strikes enough reptile-brained chords of recognition. Two years ago, “Jurassic World” came out and made a staggering $652 million at the domestic box office, even though it was a messy and unimaginative piece of thunder-lizard junk: a movie so impersonal it felt genetically engineered.

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