
There’s also something charming about how seriously the movie delivers its absurd storyline. With practical, you gotta give credit where its due. Going back in the google time machine to the year this thing came out you can find numerous articles about people trying to figure out how they were able to train a gorilla to act so well, so it’s also safe to say that at the time people took this as a very believable effect. I’m not willing to go as far as stating that the effect has aged well, but I do still think it looks acceptable. As a result they had to take a relatively different approach to Amy, who wound up being a combination of a gymnast in a suit and a remote controlled animatronic face. Unfortunately the special effects team couldn’t figure out how to work their magic with animals that had hair.

As I said earlier, Congo was built of the same mold as Jurassic Park. I’ll start with Amy, but this one might be a bit divisive depending on who you watch the movie with.
