In the cutthroat world of Donkey Kong?? only one can rule! A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic?? Donkey Kong. Steve and Billy engage in a cross-country duel to see who could set the high score and become the King of Kong! Along the way?? both men learn valuable lessons about what it means to be a father?? a husband?? and a true champion - discovering that you don't always need to win to be a winner. "arious and moving study of the obsessive competition between the all-time scoring leader on Donkey Kong?? an odd Floridian?? and a father of two who gets sucked into a world of mind-blowing passive-aggressiveness."oston Globe
]]>Amazon.comThe stuff of gladiatorial battle is here: good versus evil?? right versus wrong?? nerd versus... super-nerd? At any rate?? it's a more entertaining showdown than most fictional movies can muster. The King of Kong is the saga of Steve Wiebe?? a Redmond?? Washington dweeb who sets a new record in the video game Donkey Kong?? only to see his accomplishment challenged by the grand poobahs of the gaming establishment. And if you don't know how pernickety the grand poobahs of the gaming establishment can be?? well?? one of the pleasures of this movie is finding out about this collection of oddballs. It seems Wiebe has toppled a score that has stood since 1982?? when eminent "the Century" Billy Mitchell set it?? and Mitchell isn't too happy about being overthrown. A black-mulleted showboat?? Mitchell provides the perfect counterpoint to Wiebe's mild-mannered family man?? and the smaller fish around him are no less colorful. This is one of those movies you watch in delighted disbelief?? marveling that such people exist--and that they gladly allowed themselves to be filmed. Director Seth Gordon does an important thing in presenting this world of eccentrics: he doesn't mock them?? or provide editorial nudging; he simply lets them be. The result is an ingratiating classic. --Robert Horton