Mediocre? The 1933 movie was ground-breaking with visuals and special-effects. That scene of Kong towering over NYC skyscrapers is still impressive by today’s standards.
In the Dino Delaurentis (sic?) version with Jessica Lange, the Movie Advertising Poster showed Kong on top of the WTC Towers, one foot on each tower being attacked by a Jet Fighters.
People felt misled when Kong wasn’t big enough to straddle both Towers and he was attacked by Helicopters, not Jets.
The plot, yes.
Kong was that tall only on a poster.