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There is something chickenhearted about this backing away from the sort of big finish that pictures like this implicitly promise. One cannot help thinking that the producers were afraid of making drama too strong for the family audiences that PG ratings pull in. The result, however, is a film of small appeal to any audience...
...cast that includes Donald Sutherland, veering interestingly from dark to light moods as an Irish nationalist making a temporary alliance with the Germans, as well as several old-reliable English character people. Modest, well crafted, less bloody and less bloody-minded than most TV shows, it is a PG film that any P ought to be happy to G the kids through. Richard Schickel
...best show in town-also rated PG was, as usual, Meany himself, 82, who has been the pre-eminent U.S. labor figure since the 1960s. Bothered by an old hip ailment, he needs a cane to get around. His eyesight is so poor that when he plays golf, he has to have his aides tell him how far it is to the green. But during "the Meany show," the midday press conference that follows each closed-door, morning meeting, the AFL-CIO chiefs humor is as quick and salty as ever...
...movies, having no ready roots in literature or folk lore. The crudities, the enigma of the original Kong's expression, are part of that work's strength. The wowing Technicolor virtuosity of the remake reduces the tale's mythic resonances and turns it into a safe PG entertainment. It may be that though the legend of Kong works on something that is perpetually child like in everyone, it was never meant for children...
...spirit animating them moved more than fitfully through the film, if its creators had faced up to the fact that there was no honest way to make a PG movie out of a life and an art that was strictly R-rated, they might have turned out a film worthy of the peculiar old master himself...