February 14, 2014Congo had three important things going for it: 1. A great story to work off of (based on Michael Crichton's book). 2. A pretty impressive cast of cult movie heroes (including Bruce Campbell, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Laura Linney, and more). 3. The always superb creature effects of Stan Winston. Unfortunately, they seem to have gotten a little too ambitious and somewhere along the way lost sight of what could have been something amazing. I'm not going to say Congo was a bad movie, it does have its charms, but some of the dialogue was just awful. Not to mention giving Ernie Hudson an atrocious British accent and Tim Curry an equally bad Romanian one. Congo tells the stories of three different parties who coincidentally need to go to a certain part of Africa at the exact same time. The first party is made up of an ape named Amy and two guys who invented a way to hear what Amy is trying to say through sign language. When they figured out what Amy was saying, they realized she just wanted to go home. The second party was made up of Tim Curry - a Romanian explorer searching for the diamonds of King Solomon's mines. He promised to front the cash to pay for this expedition. When his check bounced, in came the third party, Laura Linney working on behalf of a billion dollar communications company in search of a powerful diamond and several of her colleagues who went missing in the area. Linney paid for their flight and Tim Curry still came along, because he is Tim Curry. Despite a terrorist attack at the airport, their plane being shot down, and running into some mean, ugly gorillas, they found their destination fairly easily, but those ugly gorillas were pretty angry and according to some hieroglyphics that Tim Curry transcribed, they were trained to eat human flesh. A lot of people died, a few lived, and the weakest volcano ever erupted right below their feet. Watch it for the creature effects and try to look past the outrageous plot holes and scientific inaccuracies.
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