YMMV / The Mighty Kong

• Awesome Music: Even though it’s probably the Sherman Brothers’ weakest soundtrack, the rewritten reprise of “Wild Animal Follies” during Kong’s presentation at Broadway is pretty good, as is the ominous tribal chant and Ann’s short solo after it.
• Cliché Storm: It's very much a product of its time, with musical numbers, a Kid Hero, a Gratuitous Animal Sidekick, and a Disney Death, none of which were in the original film.
• Narm:
  • The I'm Okay! example from the main page comes off as hilarious given A) it's barely audible over the sound of the train crash, B) the situation is so clearly un-surviveable that the line was obviously forced in C) it comes off as an extreme Dull Surprise reaction to impending/ongoing death, and D) the dubbed in line comes before/during impact with the train, so it doesn't work as an I'm Okay! since it's being said in the middle of being smashed, so they're still definitely dead after that. The Double Toasted reviewers joke that the wife is nagging her husband even from beyond the grave.
  • Denham’s famous “It was beauty what killed the beast” line loses all emotional weight when it’s revealed right afterwards that Kong is alive.
• So Okay, It's Average: It's King Kong but with the cliches and lower-end animation of The Renaissance Age of Animation, nothing more, nothing less.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The song "The Dolly of Pa Pali Ali Isle" has some parts that sound like "Heffalumps and Woozles" from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, to the point where it uses the exact same tempo. However, the only difference is that the former song has major-keyed music while the latter has minor-keyed music. It's a little bit surprising considering that both songs were written by The Sherman Brothers!
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Cutting Kong's role down from where it was from the original didn't go so well, nor did making it a musical.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The scenes with the dinosaurs on Skull Island are extremely brief - considering this is generally the main audience draw-in after Kong himself, it can be very disappointing to some.
• Values Dissonance: As discussed in Musical Hell, it retains the original film's depiction of the Hollywood Natives, without making an attempt to rectify the issues behind this depiction.