Congo was a big-budget film trying to capitalize on the ’90s run of adventure films. It was meant to be a serious movie — though the unintended comedic elements in this film were too much to handle. This movie includes an African warlord with a penchant for sesame cake, a talking gorilla with a penchant for martinis, feral killer apes jumping voluntarily into a stream of flowing magma, and Tim Curry attempting (miserably) to sound Romanian. There are big names in this film (Curry, Ernie Hudson, Laura Linney). It’s ridiculous in nature — though wildly entertaining.
