Mighty Joe Young

Mighty Joe Young Soundtrack

Charlize Theron is the latest stunning blonde to be hanging around some big ape in a Hollywood movie, this one a remake of the 1949 semi-classic with echoes of the superior King Kong. Theron plays the daugher of an American researcher killed by poachers in Africa. The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen named Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary (Bill Paxton) from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the L.A. facility. The transition is not without discomfort, but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands. Director Ron Underwood (City Slickers) uses a combination of special-effects techniques to give Joe life and personality, and he succeeds quite effectively. The requisite giant-ape-goes-amok scenes are all in place--a couple of them pretty intense--as is a conclusion that finds the simian hero performing a stunning feat of escalation. Underwood attempts to give a little modern spin to some classic Hollywood conventions regarding wild hearts lost in civilization, and the results are pretty agreeable family fare. --Tom Keogh

Director: Ron Underwood
Stars: Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron, Rade Serbedzija, Regina King, Peter Firth
Production: Buena Vista
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
1998
114
Website
1,816 Views
#SongDuration
1Poachers7:52
2The Trees6:04
3A Broken Promise4:30
4Hollywood Boulevard7:45
5The Carnival6:22

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