King Kong

Director Peter Jackson's special-effects extravaganza (it won Oscars for Sound, Sound Editing and Visual Effects) is a rip-roaring remake about the lovestruck giant ape captured on his island home and shipped to the wilds of New York City, where he falls (literally) for the wrong kind of woman. Naomi Watts plays the object of Kong's affections. Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Thomas Kretschmann, Kyle Chandler.