Congo - Nostalgia Critic 

Did she honestly think the guy sent her to the Congo for anything other than the diamonds? The boss was pretty clear about what he wanted

I understand the hungry hungry hippos joke, but to be fair hippos are some of the most dangerous animals in earth

I always assumed Tim Curry and Ernie Hudson agreed to do this just so they could do those voices.

I actually meet Ernie Hudson at a Con once and he told me this was his favourite role he ever played

Could've been a much better movie if it had been about Ernie Hudson and Bruce Campbell using lasers to fight Tim Curry's army of super-apes (They called him mad! Insane! Wendell!)

we need tim curry month

Amy probably did die in the end, considering she was raised in captivity & at no point does the film indicate she received any survival training. Animals raised by humans typically can't be released because they never learn how to survive in the wild.

Tim Curry isn’t playing a fruit cake. He’s playing a sesame seed cake.

I just realized Tim Curry's character was named Herkimer! Herkimer diamonds are a variety of quartz mined from a particular quarry, and known for its clarity.

Well despite the fact that she doomed an entire company for being greedy and selfish........keep in mind, the guy who asked for the diamond very selfishly is also Charlie's Dad, the same Charlie that got killed by those mutated looking apes. He didn't even show any concern for his own freaking son!! Best dad of the year right there, gold star!!

I just finished reading the book “Congo” and came here to rewatch the Channel Awesome movie review. You see the potential in Micheal Crichton’s novels to be adapted into great movies, like Jurassic Park. Condensing and shifting plot and characters from novel to script is difficult, but it can be done. Steven Spielberg made an amazing masterpiece of cinema that can stand independent of the source material as a timeless classic. Then you see catastrophes like this

STOP eating my sesame cake!!!

Interesting choice by Tim Curry to use a sort of Russian/general Slavic accent considering Romanian is a Latin language resembling Italian and Spanish. :D

Wait, wait, wait... wait... A horror movie where the black guy survived? I mean I know it's stupid to think they'd kill Ernie Hudson, but it's still a surprise.

Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell, Bruce Campbell. Five guys that have just been cured of impotence, you're welcome.

STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE...NOOO

One more cool thing: Laura Linney's delivery of the line "Put them on the endangered species list!" just before she unloads the laser on the albino gorillas.

0:56 "It's in the theater next store."

Fun fact: that sign language and voice thing actually exists today. It turns sign language into speech.

Tim Curry is always amazing in everything

Laura Linney is like a composite of every hot teacher ever.

Not sure if its been pointed out, but the "Tickle Amy" thing is meant in reference to Koko the gorilla, a captive gorilla taught sign language that often ask to be tickled by people. Robbin Williams use to tell a joke about how when he visited her, she kept asking him to tickle her and tried to get him to go into her sleeping area with him.

Ernie Hudson can make anything cool! Ghostbusting, going on jungle expeditions, can’t really go wrong with him!

"Shit on Amy, shit on Amy's face" Gets me everytime :D

"Hey look, a pool!" "Let's jump in!" *Jumps into lava* "AAAAHHHHHGGGG!!!" That kills me.

18:09 "Aw look, you can see Amy burning to death in the volcanoes lava." *Screeching* "Look at her melt." XD

XD "Try to land in one of Michael Crichton's theme park movies!" "Yeah, they usually do well!"

17:06:"Hey look! A pool! Let's jump in! AGGRHHH!!!" LOL!!!

The look on critics face at 6:11 always gets me

"Calm down guy, the answer to everything isn't shouting at TV screens." ... -cough- ... Doug, you technically do that for a living... granted its a camera, but still. I do it for free... ok I'm the one sounding pathetic now.

4:36 Ah Tim Curry, making shitty movies just a little bit less shitty!

You know, this really could have been a good movie. In fact, it could have almost been like a Pulp Action film. It's got the exotic locale complete with isolationist people, a Great White Hunter, diamond mines, a talking animal sidekick, killer apes, a laser gun, and a volcano. You know where they messed up? NOT making Bruce Campbell the hero! I mean look at the guy! He looks like he was genetically engineered to punch Nazis!

Stop eating my sesame cake!!!

I was thinking about where I remembered Tim Curry from and I remembered him from The Wild Thornberrys! He was Nigel. I always think he looks like Jeremy Irons.

why cant that stuffed animal amy be a recurring charachter XD

"hey look a flaming lava pit, let's jump in AAAAHHHH!!"

when they asked Bruce Campbell if he regretted doing this movie his response was no the check cleared

The year was 2015: The Critic returned to monke before everyone else

Bruh the voices Doug does are hilarious I been on a NC marathon and they all hella funny even the old ones

I’ve loved this movie since childhood, and always found the mutant apes to be pretty frightening looking... didn’t find the special effects bad at all. Just... 90’s chic

At 0:55, could it possible mean "It's at the theater next door" rather than "It's at the theater next store"? Great review anyway!

"He does look like a gift horse" How dare you! Tim Curry is beautiful!

Earnie Hudson is such a likeable guy, whenever I see him in a movie - it cheers me up a little :) Fuck it, I’ll try to find this movie and watch it.

I want a Tickle Me Amy doll.

Besides the sesame cake line, my other favorite in this is "DID YOU GET THE DIAMONDS?!" - mostly thanks to this review.

Too bad Bruce Campbell dies so early. I would've loved to have seen him battle Tim Curry in this for the title of "Hammiest Actor."

Please can we get more guns like that one in more movies? That was genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Someone must've had to write the entire movie around that gun.

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Re-watched it recently... That shit was terrible. But Tim Curry and Bruce Campbell!

The Ape Costumes actually look great and realistic.

When 'talking Amy" wanted a spanking, I lost it. I almost coughed up a lung I was laughing SO hard......THEN that damn coffee cake scene? What are tryin' to do, kill me????

8:05 STOP eating my sesame cake! Lol 😂😂😂😂😂

Hippos are very aggressive irl, so it makes sense that they'd attack the boat.

17:07 “hey look a pool, let’s jump in, DAAAHHHH!!!”

Notice how in all these adventure movies the tomb/cave/ancient chamber that the heroes find in the climax always conveniently collapses at the end? Not just Congo, but Raiders of the Lost Ark (at the beginning), The Last Crusade, the 2001 Tomb Raider...I could go on lol.

It's a guilty pleasure movie for me. And the hippo scene would really happen. They're not evil, just one of the most territorial animals ever. They will attack and kill anything that swims in their waters. People die all the time, as well as other animals.

This movie sucks, but I will give it credit for the gun, Bruce Campbell, Ernie Hudson and not killing off Ernie Hudson. Plus it made me want some sesame cakes :)

Your like a mix between Cinema Sins and Mystery Science Theater

Started the audio book of Congo this week and wanted a refresher of what the movie was like. Nothing like it appears to be the case.

Though I don't consider this film a good movie, I can't bring myself to hate it. The book it's based on is one of my favorite books of all time and I love seeing where they got it right, and where they got it wrong.

Congo is one of my favorites.. I watched it at Ieast once a day during ApriI 2014 for 30 Days of Congo... I'm going to do it again in a few months for the 25th anniversary

Also, the title card was very appropriate. Loved your version of hear, speak, and especially see no evil.

Ernie Hudson is sooooo cool... Oh yeah.

They pass a lot of these old movies on the Spanish networks so even though I was born in 2000 these movies are still nostalgic

I actually had no idea that Amy was a person in Gorilla costume. I thought Amy was a real Gorilla until I saw your review a few years ago Nostalgia Critic and The Albino Ape Costumes of The Killer Gorillas were pretty convincing too in my opinion.

Tim Curry was at his best in the Command and Conquer series...

Damn, looking at this almost a decade later and that Tickle Me Amy skit is fucking hilarious. “Shit on Amy. Shit on Amy’s face. Give Amy golden shower.” 😂😂😂😂😂

This was always one of my favourite reviews xD Thanks for uploading :)

1:54 NOOOO BRUCE CAMBELL!

They actually sold an Amy plush when this movie was released. There was also a tie in with Taco Bell that had collectible Congo cups like Jurrastic Park did 2yrs earlier. And a toy line They thought the movie was going to be a big hit but it flopped pretty bad. We owned the Amy plush it didn't talk though unfortunately lol. IM pretty sure my mom still has it in a box with all my other childhood toys. I saw the movie when I was 13 or so on HBO and enjoyed it I didn't think it was that bad but I haven't seen it as an adult so don't know how id feel about it now.

Lady, why did you ever presume he sent you there for any reason other than the diamond? He wasn’t exactly subtle either in his desire for the diamond or his belief that Charlie was dead.

His face at 10:06 is just priceless

Is it weird that I actually like this movie. I even re-watched it recently.

The screenwriter for this film also wrote the screenplays for Moonstruck and Doubt (as well as the play Doubt). How's that for a career deviation?

How funny, I was thinking of Tim Curry today lol 😂

Shower Amy In Coconut Cream Pie

That bit at around 5:55 is probably one of the best things I've ever seen in your reviews.

am i the only one that loves this underrated film

As bad as the movie is,I feel bad for it because of all the talent that it has,for example in the teaser it says From producer Kathleen Kennedy-ET:The Extra Terrestrial From director Frank Marshall-Arachnophobia From Screenwriters John Patrick Stanley-Alive Based on the book by the author of Jurassic Park They could have made something really exiting and fun,but it turns out it wasn’t a good win for them.

2:46 Hi Casper! What are you doing here?

2:25 We'll just have to settle with a TV series! Actually, that sounds awesome.

Just so you know, the phrase is next door not "Next Store".

The only thing that would have made that laser gun cooler; if it was Ernie Hudson using it.

This was my first Nostalgia Critic I ever saw

I actually asked Ernie about this movie and he said this was some of his best work

Tickle me Amy made me piss myself... Laughing of course.

Considering he's such a well known a liked actor... has Tim Curry ever been in a good movie?

Fun fact, the pilot that flies them into the jungle is Jimmy Buffett

"Have some!" *2 seconds later* "Stop eating my sesame cake!" Can this dude make up his mind?

15:58 NOOOO TIM CURRY!

You think killing Bryan Cranston off in Godzilla was a bad idea? Bruce Campbell has the words “Main Character” on his birthright.

Old skool Doug was on another level

"They to land in one of Michael Crichton's Theme Park movies, yeah, those usually do well", lol, that's a laugh XD Oh, no, I mean the films are some of the best (except for JPIII, that is "one big pile of shit" and wasn't even based on a Michael Crichton book), by "that's a laugh" I mean, yeah, if you dinosaurs escaping and eating people "doing well".

0:46 This is more appropriate now then ever before. TIMING!

16:55 ummmmmmm Tim Curry!

6:20 He's thinking "I'm going to Hell for making this joke."

Amy was hilarious. "Ugly woman!" "Bad gorillas!"

0:45 - 0:57 my reaction to the live action remake of The Lion King

It's nice that they gave ash a star wars level hand to be in this movie. Looks so real!

This film is based on Michel Crighton's novel of the same name, and now I see strong plot similarities with his later novel and movie adaptation, Jurassic Park. An evil corporation (there were rival corporations in the novel, just like in Jurassic Park); scientist protagonists motivated by a love of the animals they study; funding necessary for them to further their enthusiasm; hidden secrets of the funders; greedy local antagonists, both external and internal to the group; an exotic setting where the animals can run amok; animals themselves being uncontrollable monsters; animals being uncontrollable monsters as a result of human interference (in Congo the gorillas were human hybrids, even though humans cannot breed with gorillas, in Jurassic park the 'dinosaurs' were genetically engineered clones); the animal expert defusing a tense situation with monsters by essentially doing nothing; the list goes on. I remember reading Jurassic Park and the Lost world when they came out in the 90s, but I had no idea he had simply reworked old wine into new bottles.

This needs a proper remake. Closer to the book, maybe even set in the same time as it.