Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- The King of Kong Island, 1968 Jungle natives are terrorized by a crazy scientist work on experiments between gorillas and humans brains.*Special Stars- Marc Lawrence, Brad Harris *Theme- Jungle areas often hold danger in many forms.*Trivia/location/goofs- Italian, microphone boom in the shot during the cave, mind-controlled gorillas, and mad scientist scenes.*Emotion- A rather crazy film, NOT saved by the rest of the film's good science fiction plot. Even the veteran Marc Lawence can't save this film. It's very bad and a waste.

bkoganbing Marc Lawrence who had blacklisting problems and was exiled for years from the USA had to take parts in a lot of really bad films. But I don't think he sunk lower in his career than when he took the part of the mad scientist in Kong Island. At least Lawrence got to chew a set full of scenery and after that a whole jungle on this mythical tropical island where there are a whole lot of gorillas running wild. Lawrence thinks they'd make great soldier/slaves and he's invented a control device to implant in their skulls so he can bend them to his will. Dr. Moreau on his island never thought of anything this fiendish.Brad Harris who was one of many peplum heroes got to occasionally wear a shirt in this, but we saw enough of his well developed torso and shoulders. It was a change of pace for Harris who is the hero, but the film belongs to Marc Lawrence though I'm sure he winced at the mention of this one.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) Seriously, I have a soft spot for KONG ISLAND, and the only people who might be so violently opposed to it would have to be stupid enough to take it seriously. This was a cheap, trippy, low budget Italian exploitation film made before Italian exploitation films were all the rage. Sure, it dared to evoke the mighty name of Kong, and it is all mighty silly once you get down to brass tacks, but so what? This is a Jungal Trash movie about white Anglos going to darkest Africa to have all sorts of fascinating adventures while the natives carry the luggage. Anyone expecting anything else is seriously wasting their time.Muscleman turned 60s matinée idol Brad Harris manages to keep a straight face as he plays a former mercenary double crossed by creepy Mark Lawrence (yes, Mark Lawrence) who intends to take all the loot from a diamond mine payroll heist to -- and I am not making this up -- create a master race of superhuman gorillas radio controlled by brain implants to do his evil bidding. Which involves kidnapping various scantily clad supporting actresses for purposes that the English language version never bothers to explain.And right here we have to stop and do a little Italian genre film 101 for the newcomers: If you've seen the cut, bleached out, nappy looking fullscreen English version circulating on various bargain bin DVD sets, you haven't even seen half of this film. That's a TV print that's been shorn of any content that 1970s era television wouldn't tolerate, such as nudity. Italians usually made two versions of their films, a somewhat tamer version for export that would be translated to English, and then an Italian language print with no holds barred.The highlight of the film in it's uncensored form are extended sequences of Euro horror boob babe Esmeralda Barros (THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT) prancing around the jungle wearing nigh but a leather kerchief around her waist, which manages to get lost in time for the big finale where she goes stark naked. A nudity-friendly export print with Greek subtitles is available on the Retromedia DVD which runs a full seven minutes longer than the standard English travesty, and then there's an insanely rare Italian language print that even clocks the Greek version by a couple minutes with some extra safari scenes thrown in to establish plot.It's a quirky, goofy, lunkheaded film for sure. But to the initiated it's a pleasure to see, with a dreamy psychedelic music score by Roberto Pregadio, a veteran Italian genre film supporting cast led by curvy Adriana Alben, pretty Ursula Davis, sneering Paolo Magalotti, and Mark Farran. The film was written by Euro horror favorites Walter Brandi (BLOODY PIT OF HORROR), his frequent collaborator Ralph Zucker (BLOODY PIT OF HORROR, THE DEVIL'S WEDDING NIGHT) and directed by spaghetti western regular Roberto Mauri. His frequent star Brad Harris executive produced, and all of it is "presented by" schlock cinema maestro Dick Randall.If you take it seriously you're missing the point, and if you get all bent out of shape watching movies about radio controlled gorillas kidnapping Italian B movie actresses in their underwear you have nobody but yourself to blame for wasting your time on it. But please, make sure you at least track down one of the prints with the nudity. For now that means the Retromedia DVD which isn't hard to find. 7/10, for being so lovably goofy.

Michael_Elliott King of Kong Island (1968) BOMB (out of 4) A mad scientist puts the brains of humans into the body of apes. On another part of the island a girl might be the long lost gorilla woman. This is an incredibly bad Italian production, which has to be one of the worst that country ever sent over to America. The title sticks out on a video store shelf but that's about the only thing going for this movie. The performances are all terrible and the dubbing is even worse. The film doesn't contain any of those "so bad it's good" laughs, which means you just have a lifeless film where suicide might be better than actually watching.