10 Dumbest Movie Reboots Ever

The original King Kong is a stone-cold cinematic classic. It is the kind of story so immortal that it remains a basic part of the pop culture lexicon to this day, and regardless of whatever the most recent Kong film may have been about, Kong climbing the Empire State Building is what lives on today.

Between its legacy and the fact that it would be really, really dumb to ever make a sequel to King Kong (don't worry though, it happens eventually), a reboot seemed like the easiest way to go for this film. In and of itself, rebooting Kong isn't even a bad idea, there are all kinds of potential directions to go in.

But monkey sex isn't the one that immediately springs to mind.

This film's defining changes were changing the time period to modern day and making Kong and Dwan's (no, that's not a typo, it's really her name) relationship of a much more sexual nature. Ah yes, who could forget that touching scene in which Kong drops Dwan in some mud, only to clean her off in a waterfall and sensually blow her dry with his warm monkey breath?

It's a film comprised of really bizarre choices that don't do anything but detract from the immortal legacy of Kong as a character. Also, somehow, someway, they actually made a sequel to this version. Kong still dies at the end of this film but since when has a monkey being shot to death and falling off of a skyscraper ever kept him down?