This post will be a Thanksgiving tradition. You’ll see it every year here.

It’s the Holiday season (Thanksgiving, to be exact), and that means the 1930’s version of King Kong is on TV numerous times.

When I was a kid, this movie was on every Thanksgiving on NY Channel 9. And being a “monster movie” fan, I watched every year. And besides the annual Thanksgiving showing, they also seem to play Kong lot between Thanksgiving and X-Mas - hence this post, as it got me thinking about it.

Truth be told, I love this movie (the 2005 remake was decent, but too long - the original is a better experience… the 1977 remake never happened. Don’t bring it up again.) However, even though I love it, King Kong probably has the biggest plot holes of any movie I have ever seen.

KONG SIZED plot holes.

To wit, here are a few questions I have (these also appeared on my old site years back):

·     The voyage to Skull Island took over a month. So the voyage back (with Kong) would have taken a month. What did they feed Kong that month? And whose job was it to clean up after him?

·     The “big show” in NY was… what, exactly? Kong chained to the wall? That’s it? That was going to be the big show? Talk about underwhelming. Good thing he escaped - now THAT was a show. In fact, one could say it’s almost like they planned Kong’s escape (heyyyyy…. )

·     What did Kong do with the other women who were sacrificed to him? He kept Ann Darrow around - where were the others? I always envisioned he had a harem back at his cave… (for what it’s worth, I’d keep Fay Wray around too)

·     Kong climbed the Empire State Building. The friggen EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!! But he couldn’t scale that puny 50′ wall the natives built?? Really??

·     Which leads us to my biggest issue - the natives built a 50′ wall to keep Kong and the other giant monsters out. Truth be told, that’s probably a smart thing to do when you live on an island full of giant monsters. So tell me, why on earth did they equip this wall with a 50′ door??? That makes NO SENSE AT ALL. You build a wall to keep Kong out, but you also put in a Kong-sized door?? WHY??? For what possible reason??? If the wall needed a door, why not a regular, native-sized door?    

Anyway, have a great Thanksgiving!!