It does feature The Rock doing battle
with giant gorillas, wolves, and crocodiles after all.
A giant croc fights
with a giant gorilla and kills a giant wolf with a savage bite as we see some blood.
And seemingly the freshest gag, according to the audience reaction, is the giant monkey flipping the bird (1976's A * P * E * did it first,
with the giant gorilla giving the Finger of Honor to a helicopter).
Not exact matches
► A man and a woman steal a Medevac helicopter and fly to stop creatures from destroying a city: they see a
giant wolf jump into the air and bite three helicopters in half while the wolf and a
giant gorilla destroy buildings and vehicles into rubble and smoke; something swims fast under the surface of a river, it rises high in the water to reveal a prehistoric spiny crocodile
with an armored tail and a spiked ball at its end, many huge teeth that include side tusks, and wings behind its ears; it upsets a large touring craft full of people who fall into the water, screaming, and it roars at the sky before joining the other two creatures in destroying buildings.
The Rampage game summons players to do battle
with three digital
giants — a
gorilla, a werewolf and a Godzilla - ish lizard — that are chowing down on people while smashing up cities and skyscrapers.
► A
giant caged
gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue
with soldiers and an agent; the
gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the
gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the
gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.
► A woman shoots a man in the stomach and he falls
with a large spot of blood on his shirt (we see him later standing on a high - rise roof) and a
giant gorilla knocks people down, and then he swallows a woman as the man who was shot and another woman get into a helicopter; the helicopter spins and slides to the ground among falling debris and we see that the people are unhurt.
A mere fortnight after Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle left British cinemas, here comes Dwayne Johnson again
with a similarly hushed and introspective tale about the love between a man and his
giant albino
gorilla.
Contrast him
with Robert Armstrong's feelings about bringing King Kong to his death, as described in Son of Kong, also about a
giant albino
gorilla.
So pairing Johnson
with a
giant albino
gorilla in the video game adaptation «Rampage» feels right.
In trying to claim the bone, he encounters a mother kangaroo
with child, a
giant gorilla, a hungry crocodile, and eventually the lion himself.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that «the project aims to take advantage of the title and the visuals of the game,» so we should assume that the movie will be called Rampage, and will feature 8 - bit, pixelated people screaming out of windows, and a
giant gorilla and
giant lizard playing tennis
with the sewer cover.
Are you excited to see Dwayne Johnson interact
with a
giant CGI
gorilla in Rampage?
Which brings us to Rampage, a sweaty, lunkish slab of lowbrow escapism starring the former wrestler Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson as a primatologist fending off an attack of
giant, genetically mutated beasts
with the help of a super-sized
gorilla.
We've all been there — make friends
with a
gorilla,
gorilla gets accidentally turned gigantic and goes all nasty, have to coax it to be friendly again to defeat the
giant crocodile and wolf also raging through the city.
Sure, it's pretty thin in the plot area and if you're not immediately sold by the phrase «The Rock has an adventure
with his best friend, a
giant albino
gorilla,» you probably won't be into it, but it's not bad.
I've sandboarded down
giant orange dunes in Namibia, walked along white sand beaches in Tanzania, trekked
with gorillas in Uganda, and eaten at BBQ joints in the South African townships (and fancy restaurants just a few miles away).
The gameplay is very similar to Super Mario games
with a few added changes and abilities for a
giant gorilla.
Fight back
with jurassic
giants such as Havoc, the armor - plated T - Rex, or the guerrilla
gorilla, Knuckles.
Unlike the
giant gorillas, aliens, or demon turtles Mario had tangled
with over the years, this villain was of a different sort, one the likes of which has been passed down through the ages, from the Doppelgänger of folklore, the Bizarro Superman and Venom of comic books, or even the Mirror Universe of Star Trek.
But it's the original version that holds the most appeal for us,
with its strangely beguiling central character (essentially a small boy in a turban and cape), curious weapon system (you can throw a smiling, apparently sentient egg at enemies), and bizarre power - ups (you can turn into a
giant mechanical
gorilla).