Show Me the Monkey -
9.9/10 with 11 votes
As the ship is heading towards Skull Island,one of the crew receives a message over the radio in morse code. Supposedly,the message is a warrant for the arrest of Jack Black's character. What the message actually says is: SHOW ME THE MONKEY.
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Sumatran Rat Monkey -
9.3/10 with 6 votes
In the first scene we see of the bowels of the Venture there are many cages shown that are used to hold various animals. A sign on one of them clearly reads 'Sumatran Rat Monkey,' which, as any Peter Jackson fan would know, is the creature that bit poor...
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Original Movie -
9.0/10 with 1 votes
In the scene where Anne Darrow and Bruce Baxter are filming the boat scene for Denham's Movie, Bruce and Anne say the following: "I think this is awfully exiting! I've never been on a ship before! And I've never been on one with a woman before. I guess...
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Tribute to First Movie -
8.2/10 with 5 votes
During the first part of the film when Jack Black thinking of actresses to bring to the island he mentions someone named Fay working on a picture for RKO. I believe Fay Wray was the damsel in the original King Kong.
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Original King Kong Appearance -
6.6/10 with 22 votes
At the start of the movie, Jack Black's character is showing his movie to some Hollywood hot shots. Very breifly, they show part of the screen on which a black and white movie is playing. I am almost positive that it is, in fact, a clip from the original...
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Fay Wray -
3.5/10 with 2 votes
When Jack Black is going through names of actresses, his assistant says "Miss Fay?" and Jack mentions something about her not being a small enough size. I think it's referring to the name of character in the original movie: Fay Wray!
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Wilhelm Scream -
3.2/10 with 10 votes
On the part when the group is running from the huge stampede of dinosaurs the cliff crumbles away and some guy falls off. If you listen carefully, you should hear the scream.
Digital Camera -
3.0/10 with 4 votes
When King Kong is killed and falls off the empire state building, photographers run and try and take a picture of Kong but one of the photographers is holding a digital camera!
Old Props -
2.8/10 with 9 votes
Peter Jackson is a huge fan of the 1933's version of King Kong and has bought various props from the old movie. Some are actually in the new one, like shields, spears and bottles of ether that were used to bring down Kong.