This week on Slept-On Cinema, we dive deep into the gloriously chaotic 1995 adventure classic Congo.
Critics called it clunky.
Audiences somehow scored it even lower.
But here’s the question we ask every week:
How can a movie with killer gorillas, diamond lasers, Tim Curry chewing scenery, and one perfectly timed martini possibly be bad?
Based on the Michael Crichton novel and packed with an absurdly stacked cast (Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Bruce Campbell, Delroy Lindo, and more), Congo is a wild genre mash-up of jungle adventure, creature feature, treasure hunt, and pure 90s blockbuster energy.
In this episode we break down:
• Why Congo is secretly one of the most fun adventure movies of the 90s
• The insane cast of character actors hiding in this movie
• The legendary diamond laser weapon
• The surprisingly awesome gorilla practical effects
• The best line in the movie: “Stop eating my sesame cake.”
• Why the critics completely missed the point
We also draft our favorite moments, discuss the movie’s most ridiculous elements, and ask the important questions:
Is the diamond gun one of the greatest movie weapons ever?
Should there be an entire franchise about Captain Monroe’s adventures?
And why does this movie have literally EVERYTHING in it?
Pour yourself one martini (doctor’s orders), press play, and join us in the jungle.
Because sometimes the movies everyone dismissed…
are the ones that are the most fun to watch.
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