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Lady KongвЂ™s distinct musk causes King Kong to stir from his anaesthetised slumber (вЂњHorny sonofabitch! He smells the female half a mile away!вЂќ a doctor enthuses), and after fiddling around with his various electrodes and drips, heвЂ™s up on his feet and screaming his head off.

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While KongвЂ™s recuperating after his operation, possibly with a skip full of grapes sitting next to his hospital bed, Lady KongвЂ™s languishing in an aircraft hangar approximately one mile away, described by one character as вЂњthe worldвЂ™s biggest ladiesвЂ™ dressing room.вЂќ Outside, a crowd of Kong fans has gathered in their novelty hats and T-shirts, and a news anchor, in a line worthy of Alan Partridge, announces that вЂњKong mania has arrived! EveryoneвЂ™s gone bananas!вЂќ 4. The notion of giving a giant monster an artificial heart may be a goofy one, but director John Guillermin and everyone else involved treats the scenario with a straight face, too, like an outsized episode of ER.Дespite a tense moment where some clumsy oaf nearly drops the mechanical heart directly into KongвЂ™s bleeding chest cavity, the operation is pronounced a success. King Kong Lives may have been nominated for a Visual Effects Razzie, but these early scenes are quite good looking. KongвЂ™s broken ticker, looking like a massive gory haggis, is lifted out with a huge mechanical arm, before a mechanical heart, which looks like one of those white pods from 2001: A Space Odyssey, is dropped in as a replacement.

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In one of the more bizarre scenes in monster movie history, Dr Franklin and an army of other surgeons don their gowns and gloves, and get to work with an array of enormous tools вЂ“ giant surgical scissors, the kind of circular saw you might use to cut an ocean-going liner in half вЂ“ to start the process of replacing KongвЂ™s heart. ThereвЂ™s a Mrs KongДЇortunately, dashing explorer Hank Mitchell (Brian Kerwin) stumbles on a colossal giant ape in the jungles of Borneo, and as he excitedly puts it, вЂњIt ainвЂ™t a him! ItвЂ™s a herвЂ¦ and a damn good looking one, too!вЂќ

вЂњOnly one thing can save Kong now,вЂќ Franklin says gloomily. She plans to give the creature an artificial heart once sheвЂ™s found a suitable donor to provide a blood transfusion вЂ“ the problem being that giant apes are in short supply in AmericaвЂ™s southeast. Instead, Kong was carted off to the Atlanta Institute in Georgia, where heвЂ™s been kept in a coma for the past decade by Dr Amy Franklin (Linda Hamilton). The pilots open fire, and a mortally wounded Kong falls several hundred feet to the streets below, where he dramatically breathes his last.Д®xcept, King Kong Lives tells us, he didnвЂ™t really die at all. Having been cornered by the military at the top of the World Trade Centre, angry giant ape Kong gently places his human love interest Dwan (Jessica Lange) down on the roof, and prepares to face the buzzing helicopters for one last growl. Just to get us up to speed, King Kong Lives begins with the events of the 1976 film. King Kong survived his fall from a 1,368 foot skyscraper Later nominated for a Golden Raspberry for its visual effects, King Kong Lives was also scornfully treated by critics the LA TimesвЂ™ Janet Maslin wrote that it вЂњhas a dull cast and a plot thatвЂ™s even duller,вЂќ while Roger Ebert stated that, вЂњEven the lowliest extras in a 1950s B-picture would have been able to scream better and roll their eyes more than the actors in this film.вЂќДЎ.

Unfortunately, by the middle of the 80s, nobody seemed to be particularly keen on seeing another giant ape movie вЂ“ especially one full of countryside romance вЂ“ and it was a financial misfire, ultimately making back less than half of its original investment in American cinemas. Once again a story about a giant ape transported to New York and running amok, the 1976 King Kong overcame its production difficulties вЂ“ including a malfunctioning 40ft tall mechanical ape designed by Carlo Rambaldi вЂ“ and became a sizeable hit.ДЄ decade later, De Laurentiis decided that it was finally time to make a sequel to King Kong, and brought back director John Guillermin (not to mention a much smaller budget of $10m) to make King Kong Lives. Producer Dino De Laurentiis assembled an all-star cast and gathered a colossal budget for his 1976 remake of King Kong.