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"Stop eating my sesame cakes"
Herkermer Homolka (Tim Curry) has been looking for the Lost City of Zinj. He is contemplating picking up a few souvenirs when he finds it. Seems that the only one that has been there is Amy (Misty Rosas). However Amy needs to go home. Her buddy and mentor is economically taped out. So they all team up with a Dr. Karen Ross (Laura Linney) who just happens to be going in that direction and can afford the travel arrangements. While Karen thinks she is going to save fellow explorer, her boss also has a nefarious plan. <
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>Will Amy go home? <
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>Will Herkermer Homolka get his trinkets or his fingers Zinj'd? <
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>What secret does the lost city hold? <
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>Let's face it Tim Curry makes the movie. Not only doe he excels in his character but allows others to play off him. Otherwise this would just be a run of the mill misadventure film. Great accent. <
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Fall from Innocence
Congo came out in June of 1995. I went to see it on my eleventh birthday. I was excited to see it; I'd liked the book, and Crichton's stuff in general. It was free-spirited, happier time where I was barely even aware of lousy movies. How blind I was. After seeing it I was filled with strange, strange feelings. Something was not right with that movie. It gnawed at my soul. Then it occured to me: That movie sucked. Again, movies had probably sucked before then, but I had been to young understand this. Thus, my 11th birthday became my new birth into the real world. A world full of crappy, crappy movies. It's been all down hill since then. I'm not saying that Congo ruined my life, but I sincerely suspect that it might have. <
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>However, it did provide an early credit for Dylan Walsh, who would eventually star in the great show 'Nip/Tuck'. Thus the damage is mitigated slightly, and there can now be some amount of healing. But for some of us, it is too late. Too, too late. <
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>Grade: D-

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Congo
Where you are the endangered species... <
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>"Breathtaking action! Amazing special effects!"~ Joel Siegel, Good Morning America <
>"You are in for a treat!"~ Peter Travers, Rolling Stone <
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>They've eluded heat-seeking missiles, gone eyeball-to-eyeball with enraged 5,000-pound hippos, hacked through a jungle curtain. Still, the expedition continues. Amy, a gorilla who was part of a university learning experiment, is at last returning home. A professor (Dylan Walsh), electronics expert (Laura Linney). guide (Ernie Hudson), explorer (Tim Curry) and others follow the scampering ape. They know she will lead them to the place that's more than her home-it's the site of the fabled Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines. But what they don't know can be fatal. Once they enter Zinj, they'll be the endangered species! An event-packed adventure filled with state-of-the-art technology and primal fear. <
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>One that is in my personal collection. I enjoyed watching this movie and highly recommend it. There's alittle bit of everything in this film for humor to shear terror when the team faces the evil within the Lost City. I sugguest you check this movie out.