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Summary: Great Start - Disappointing Endining
Review: I'm a person that too often looks at the logic of the situation and if it doesn't fly then I am easily disappointed. This movie disappointed with the ending... it simply did not make any sense.
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Summary: Apes rule
Review: I never saw the original "Planet of the Apes." So, I won't bother trying to compare this movie to its predecessor. I'm reviewing this based on how well it stands as its own movie. And it's decent. That's about all I can say. The make-up is very well done, and the set designs and costumes fit the movie pretty well. The look of the movie is near perfect. The special effects work well, and all of the techie-stuff is good. However, good technical merits alone do not make a movie good. The major problem with the movie is that the ape characters are well-developed and relatively realistic, and they are very interesting, whereas the human characters are just... there. Mark Wahlberg's character (Forgot his name) is the only developed human. All of the others just follow him around and say, "I don't like apes." Especially his human romantic interest, who barely says or does anything in this movie, but by the end, they WANT you to believe that she is an important part of his life. Helena Bonham Carter's character is much better. By the end, her ape character actually has more appeal than the stupid blonde human! I think that the filmmakers really wanted to make "Planet of the Apes" about Apes and not humans, because there is a weak revolution story going on, and then an even weaker Human rebellion that gets the focus. If they made this movie like they do with Civil War movies, where they never focus on how the slaves (humans) lived their lives and instead focus on how the North and South (Pro-human apes and Anti-human apes) fought each other, then it would have been better. Acting is somewhere between good and bad. The villains overdo it. The only human character whose acting is worthwhile is Wahlberg. And the heroic apes are believable. The action scenes are so-so. The final battle at the end of the movie is a big disappointment. It's poorly choreographed, and because of the lack of character development on the human side, you don't really care who wins. Good rental movie, possible theater-going movie, but I'm not so sure about buying it. Maybe if it's really cheap, you might consider it.
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Summary: Boring!!!!
Review: Okay, I was excited when the movie started since it's supposed to be THE movie of the year and a must see. But when I was done with it I can say it really ...(was bad!). Big time. I mean an ape falls in love with a human. How gross is that! Eeeew! He even kissed her! Ugh! That is so barf city! And in the beginning when he was in the ship and was watching the message his friends sent him? One guy asked him when he was gonna get married so me and my friends thought he would get married in the end or even fall in love with Estella Warren but no. All he did was kiss her once. He didn't even know her name and even the viewers didn't hear her name mentioned. My pals think it's sad that he fell in love with a girl whose name he didn't even know. I would think that was sad but he didn't fall in love or even pay attention to her. He liked an ape! I think he's gonna die due to Ebola virus. Ugh! It was a lame attempt of a love story. The effects were good but the story lines ...(were very bad!). Only Gen. Thade had good lines and was an exceptional character. The ending cried "SEQUEL, SEQUEL" in a very bad way.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: Completely dull 'storyline', completely unsuspenseful, some truly ridiculous makeup (Helena Bonham Carter looks like she's wearing a cheap Micheal Jackson mask). Nothing much to recommend this overwrought pile of marketing hype at all. Mark is beautiful but far too good an actor for this one dimensional drivel. Deeply dissapointing.
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Summary: Why did he do that?
Review: This movie was one that I fortunately decided to walk in without expectations. Having grown up a Sci-Fi fan and watching all of the "Planet..." movies as a child, I could have become as easily distressed as my friends did. Instead I decided to take this as a fresh movie, old one not considered and so this one did impress. The action and stunts were well done. Time was spent making humans more apelike.The only problem I found with the movie was that so much time was spent working on the small details of action like stunts and apelike behavior, that I think the story was not as well presented as it could have been. That, "Why would he do that?" came up too many times without my being able to, at the end, say, "Oh, now I get it," to leave me with the idea that the story had been presented as well as it could have. Case in point, at the risk of giving the story away - "Why did he go back to earth?"
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Summary: boneheaded summer fun
Review: tim burton's tour de-force. the ending is wonderful, i don't know why so many people hate it. the only connection this movie has to the original is the name and two scenes. it is a wonderful and exiting, original picture. the 1:59 running time flys by in what seems like a half hour. see it in the theater while you can.
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Summary: REMAKE ALL GOOD
Review: Some people thought this movie to be a very bad remake, not me. I thought it was a very entertaining film. I have seen the original movies and I like them but this remake is also very good. Rick Barker's make up is so outstanding, you could say that the apes are really. Danny Elfman's score is very good, similar sounds like in the original score composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The actors are outstanding, espically the ones who had to act like apes. Tim Burton's ideas in this film are very good, for example, the apes move and sound like apes and how they act like humans but also don't. SEE IT AT THE MOVIES.
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Summary: Worth the Price and time spent. Delivers as to be expected
Review: I saw the original version of Planet of the Apes the first day it came out-- cut school the one time in my life to do it. It was worth it. The movie was a wonderful adaptation of Boulle's novel. This movie delivered exactly what I expected-- a great visual presentation, with far better graphics and special effects than the original, a bit on the dark side, as Tim Burton tends to go, much faster cuts from scene to scene, lots of hopping high in the air (if you have the technology to do the same kinds of things as were done in Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, why not do it?) The story line is relatively simple, and the philosophical questions raised are pretty simplistic, though, I guess, for kids watching them, not bad. This is a movie that takes you along a roller coaster ride on the excitement continuum. Nothing heartwarming or touching here. Character development was weak, but in an action story like this, it didn't matter much. I would have liked the female lead to have been better fleshed out. But then, the story would have gone on, beyond the usual and customary 120 minutes. Overall, the movie was well acted, well costumed, but the ending....
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Summary: Typical Burton - visually stunning and shallow
Review: I don't understand why Tim Burton gets so much respect as a director. His movies all seem to have the same qualities: visually amazing, great setup, great music, and they get stupid somewhere along the way. Sleepy Hollow is a great example. It was stylistically brilliant and visually gorgeous. It had a fantastic setup and it got really stupid at the end. Overall, I have yet to see a Burton film that stirred any real emotions in me. Planet of the Apes was similar, although even the setup in this one showed early signs of weakness. I won't spoil the ending for you, but the idea was great. Their explanation of the origin of the planet of the apes was very clever, but it was also obvious from the very beginning. Again, great idea, poor execution, looks good, shallow. Marky Mark was weak too. I think the real chimps in the movie showed more depth and emotion. Towards the end, he has to give a speech to rally the humans, like Mel Gibson trying to excite his makeshift army to battle the English in Braveheart. To say Marky Mark's attempt was lame would be like calling the Pacific Ocean moist. The only thing it stirred in me was a laugh and slight naseua. By the end of the film, you just don't care about his plight. Tim Roth is about the only thing that makes this movie worthwhile. He made a brilliant villain in General Thade. He and his army to inspire some genuine fear. Unlike the apes in the original film, these apes had the tremendous strength and agility of, well, apes. They basically clobber humans in any hand-to-hand combat and exceed the humans in speed and mobility. This however creates some of the most non-believable moments, especially as the humans somehow manage to escape the pursuing apes, despite the fact that the apes can smell where they go and can out run them by a long shot. The funny thing that makes escape possible is that the apes have a horrible fear of water! "Apes sink" - give me a break! This was just the beginning of why I lost my will to suspend disbelief somewhere along the way. Another reason: somehow Estella Warren's cave-girl character managed to always have shiny lipstick on throughout the film. To me, that is Burton's way of telling us that he just doesn't care. In summary, you have a movie that is pretty, flashy, and shallow. I wouldn't even bother writing a review of this fluff if I didn't feel so let down by a movie that otherwise had such potential.
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Summary: Entertaining - Nothing else
Review: Planet of the Apes is a good way to spend an hour and a half. It is entertaining and has it's exciting parts. But nothing more. The weakest point is the character developmen, in which our hero's woman sidekick - we don't even know her name! They kiss a fairwell kiss at the end that is supposed to be sedimental - but we don't even know her! It is sad that hollywood cant come up with enough new ideas; so they have to go back and make remakes of old movies, movies that people allread basically know how it turns out. Tim Burton threw a monkeybone into the ending, such a setup for a sequel that you could puke, and tried to give it a fresh look by changing details - but he couldn't.
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