Planet of the Apes

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Summary: Tim Burton's most mainstream film
Review: The first challenge when watching this movie is to try to forget the 1968 classic. This movie exists entirely as its own singular entity, with more action, a stronger emphasis on the civil rights and animal rights debate and almost completely eliminating the evolution theory debate that formed the backbone of the original.

There is more action in this movie, too, with some genuinely spectacular visual effects extremely worthy of an Academy Award.

But enough of this. I would not have bothered with watching this movie had it been directed by anyone other than Tim Burton. He is one of those directors who has a distinct personality, like Terry Gilliam, early Steven Spielberg or Alfred Hitchcock, there are certain trademark moves or images that he uses that distinguishes each movie as a Tim Burton film. (He would have been the ideal choice to direct The Grinch, as his imagery often has strong parallels to the illustrations in Dr. Seuss)

Those images are muted in this movie. Probably by necessity as the setting is more alien than anything Tim Burton has presented us with before. His strength was in showing movies where the real world was twisted into a surreal extreme (the pastel colors of suburbia in Edward Scissorhands; the towering cathedrals of Gotham in Batman & Batman Returns).

We still get off-beat scenes such as an ape wearing a toupee & dentures mixed in with the action & adventure, but as it stands, the scene that stands out as feeling the most like a vintage Tim Burton moment is the controversial twist ending. It does play with the final revelation of the conclusion of the original Planet of the Apes movie. But of course the last shot of that movie was a final commentary on nuclear war, while the ending of this Apes picture is simply there to play with our minds. That is not necessarily a bad thing. While the original Apes will always be regarded as a classic piece of filmmaking in its own right, this Apes movie will be regarded as an entertaining addition to Tim Burton's body of work as a filmmaker, something of a change of pace from his regular productions.

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Summary: Rent the New one..Then go BUY the Classic with Heston
Review: Not much to say except that this film was hard to watch. It was SO BAD I will spare everyone from rambling on about how Awful. The ending is Stupid, the middle is Stupid, On second thought the ending is Beyond Stupid. What a waste.....

I am a true Sci-Fi fan and have an extensive collection. I made the mistake of buying this garbage instead of renting it...Tim burton again destroys a movie

JR

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Summary: What A Bad Movie
Review: This was about the dumbest movie I have ever seen. Mark Wahlberg is a terrible actor. Maybe he should make Dirk Diggler II. What a waste of money and potential in making this movie. They could have come up with a much better story.
This can't even compare to the classic Planet of the Apes.

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Summary: The old movies are much better!
Review: First of all, the female apes look like Michael Jackson and Prince. I was expecting them to sing "Beat It" or "Purple Rain." What's the point anyways? In order for the remake to work, they would've needed to totally make this spectacular. Instead, this is simply a rehash and doesn't live up to the original. At least with the Charlie's Angels remake, they added humor to it and made it fun. This one fails to impress. Maybe if Drew Barrymore or Cameron Diaz had been the astronaut it would have worked...

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Summary: excellent movie!
Review: a must see. great effects, layout, and over all a great movie.

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Summary: Leaves a bad taste
Review: With the poor costuming, poor to fair performances, and not so great plot this movie leaves a bad taste that I will probably only get rid of by seeing the 1968 version again. Maybe comparing the two is a mistake. They're definitely not in the same league and all the little DVD extras and special effects in the world can't save this Thanksgiving turkey! Don't waste your time!

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Summary: Wierd
Review: Pseudo remake of the cult sci-fi classicabout an American astronaut who crash-lands onto a strange planet where humans run wild and civilized apes rule.

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Summary: Great potential...Big Failure
Review: When you watch a movie you should be constantly being drawn into the climax, but what happens if the draw is bigger, much bigger then the climax? Planet of The Apes happens! And you then ask yourself? why in the world did I pay money to see that?
This movie has a great begging and so much potential, but as soon as it should get good it falls flat on it's face, and keeps going down. Don't waist money on this!

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Summary: Terrific!
Review: What the hell is wrong with yall this movie is incredible the screenplay the acting and not the story but it is still very entertaining

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Summary: Not good but watchable
Review: Sorry it did'nt live up to all the hype that it was given,yes it was watchable but only once,gave it 2 stars for the neat ending,looks like it was left again for a sequel,the space ship walberg was in was very poor espeically the end sequence where it landed near the statue,what a piece of luck landing there..anyway the sequel will be better because it can't be worse....