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An endless troupe of soon-to-be-dead invade a protected jungle to achieve their cavalcade of ulterior motives set to the backdrop of civil war. There\'s also a talking trash-can, lasers, primacide, Reagan\'s Star Wars program, bad science, missiles, bad management and Ernie Hudson. It\'s time for some good ol\' bonkers business.

Congo from opening shot to final frame is a mass of nonsense. At no point in time does anything feasible or scientifically sound happen throughout. It\'s like they took the original script, sent it to Bizarro World, then brought it back and used that version. None of it makes any damn sense.

Now, the biggie...Amy the gorilla. She stinks, I\'m sorry Stan Winston. This is a talking trashcan or at best one of the members of the Chuck E. Cheese band. But she\'s probably the most likeable character in the film, so you got that going for you.

Then there\'s the big three, Tim Curry, Joe Don Baker and Ernie Hudson. All are way over the top, like WAY over. Tim\'s "evil" is laughable, Joe Don\'s slobbering CEO is hilarious, and Ernie\'s crappy Lando Calrissian is fall out of your seat terrible. The rest of the rounders casting make ever less sense the plot. Dylan Walsh over Bruce Campbell? What?

Congo is one hell of a dumb/fun time and we highly recommend it for the first time or a revisit.