Variety’s reviewer points out that at times, “the plot takes advantage of its imaginative status and goes too far. Special effects aside, the storyline itself stretched believability. Most of Kong’s fights were photographed in miniature, some of them in “stop-motion” - using models of which the positions are minutely changed after each exposure, like the drawings in an animated cartoon. Naturally no such monster would be limber enough to wrestle with a tyrannosaurus. During his tantrums, there were six men in his interior running his 85 motors.
His furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. He has a rubber nose, glass eyes as big as tennis balls. King Kong, “conceived” by Merian Coldwell Cooper, was not made entirely by enlarging miniatures. It took cinematic ambitions as big as Kong himself to make the picture, which required immense resources and the most cutting-edge special effects then available. This makes his actions wholly enjoyable.”
Kong is an exaggeration ad absurdum, too vast to be plausible. “It might seem that any creature answering the description of Kong would be despicable and terrifying,” TIME’s reviewer noted. Some moviegoers may even have been rooting for the ape.
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