Personally, I find physical effects more endearing than CGI anyway.As many reviewers have said, it's a film of a bygone era, a lost world story treated as an adventure epic. Just don't come prepared to judge them based on modern standards or Jurassic Park. Considering the slightly campy tone, the special effects are well above what anyone could expect. As an example, Tim Curry has been dismissed too often as the comic relief when he is actually central to the plot and turns in a deliciously dense performance, above and beyond the limitations of his character. I won't summarize the plot or analyze the film in explicit detail, but I will say that it is briskly paced, sharply written, and features solid characterizations, or as solid as they can be in an adventure epic. The original song 'Sounds Of Africa' is awful. For great plot development, gorgeous scenery, interesting animals even the ones with people in monkey suits cool tech, decent gun-play and interesting, likable and well-played characters, I feel this movie deserves a solid 9. However, this is one time I strongly feel a movie should be rated a lot higher then it is. I am as discerning as any other IMDB commenter, and so I usually find myself agreeing with 5 star ratings on clinker movies. Also good are Dylan Walsh as a primatologist seeking to return his lab gorilla Amy to the wild Ernie Hudson as Captain Kelly, the very likable American/British/? fixer and guide and Tim Curry as Hormulka, a greedy Romanian "philanthropist" who is secretly funding the expedition in a search for diamonds "in the mysterious city of Xingh" after mentioning this, Kelly asks Hormulka "Have you been taking your medication?" Although all of this sounds like the makings of a cartoon,"Congo" is anything but cartoonish: There are enough exciting plot elements, likable characters, low-level intrigue, fascinating technology, and elements of real danger that you could easily fill two similar movies. She has been dispatched to the Congo to discover what has happened to an earlier expedition sent by her employer JB Travis, Joe Don Baker whose son has been mysteriously lost on a search for industrial diamonds for communications satellites. Heading up the excellent cast is Laura Linney as Karen, the very serious but quite competent leader of the expedition. With almost no wasted lines, scenes or characters and something important is happening in almost every scene.Unusual among this type of action film are the many likable characters.
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