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Release Date: June 9, 1995
Genre: Action, Horror
Director: Frank Marshall
Writer: John Patrick Shanley, Michael Crichton
Cast: Stuart Pankin, Mary Ellen Trainor, Misty Rosas, Lorene Noh, Joe Don Baker, Grant Heslov, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Running Time: 109 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for jungle adventure terror and action and brief strong language

Karen Ross has been sent by her boss, Travis, to the lost city of Zinj in the Congo. Just a short time ago, they received a transmission from the previous expedition showing crushed heads and a strange ape. She teams up with primatologist Peter Elliot and an ape named Amy who has been drawing pictures of the lost city, along with the mercenary Munro and a few others, to find Zinj via satellites and computers....

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Congo, Michael Crichton's movie after Jurassic Park, left little to be desired for. The movie could have been good; it just wasn't. The apes were lame and Amy was even lamer. The gray apes go around, kill about one or two of the characters and then are cut up by a giant laser gun the first expedition just happened to have. They then, with the diamonds, have to escape a volcano that just conveniently erupts and finally escape on a balloon. The whole concept of the story was invisible and the combination of bad scripting, animatronics, and story made Congo a waste of time. Full movie review »

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