Listen you guys, cut out the rough stuff or I'll feed you to the lions.
Unfairly chastised in some quarters for being a kiddie friendly King Kong, Mighty Joe Young is as charming as an Autumnal day. Many of the team from King Kong reteam to make this film, and undoubtedly it's pretty much the same plotting only with a different resolution.
However, the effects work is still magical, harking back to a time when geniuses like Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen sweated ...