adonis98-743-186503 An Air Force astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans. Planet of the Apes seemed like the greatest film of all time when i was a kid but now i can see the flaws of the film especially in terms of story and character. The plot isn't that bad to be honest but it could have been better, the make up work is truly remarkable but some actors are easily to spot on like Michael Clarke Duncan and Helena Bonham Carter. The film is unfortunately kinda slow and it does get some time to reach the part that it needs to reach plus in my opinion CGI is still way better for this film and the later remakes like Rise, Dawn and War proved that. As for Mark Wahlberg? Well he is Mark Wahlberg he is easily likable what can i say? Tim Roth as Thade does a terrific job as the villain and he is totally unrecognisable. If the film didn't have such a slow pacing, the dumb and retarded ending could been deleted and some pretty awkward moments could have been erased too it would honestly been a much better story it would have been a 10/10 but with what i have in my hands? Well it's not as bad as many people make it sound like but it's nowhere near the masterpiece that it could have been and personally i found it to be an 'okay' Friday Night film that will either entertain you or bore the hell out of you. The Andy Serkis films are of course 1.000 times better but this film is at least enjoyable and even tho it's not one of Tim Burton's worst films it's definitely not one of his best ones either at least it's better than Big Eyes that's something. (6/10)

swilliky Director Tim Burton remade the science fiction classic but came up short on quality and story. Captain Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) works with chimpanzees teaching them space flight aboard a space station. When they come close to a space storm, they send out the chimp Pericles but he flies off course. Davidson flies out after it, disobeying orders, and is warped further out in space and time. He crash lands in a swamp and abandons his ship as it sinks beneath the water. He quickly encounters other humans who are fleeing an attack by apes. The humanoid chimps and gorillas have amazing jumping abilities and easily catch the humans, throwing them in carts. Leo is shocked to find out that the apes can speak. Using humans as cattle, Leo and the other captives a brought back into the ape city, full of all sorts of astonishing sights. The apes do not treat the humans with respect though Ari (Helen Bonham Carter) scolds the child apes that throw stones at them. The trader orangutan Limbo (Paul Giamatti) purchases the humans and stores them in prisons. The leader Thade (Tim Roth) inspects them with his right-hand man Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan), looking to purchase one for his daughter. As Limbo brands the humans like Daena (Estella Warren), Ari interferes on their behalf and purchase Leo, bringing him home. The apes debate possessing humans at dinner and Thade visits Ari after professing his love, though she spurns him. Leo escapes with Daena who makes him help her father Karubi (Kris Kristofferson) and family. The humans can all talk and Leo organizes an escape with them and Ari, though Karubi sacrifices himself.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

oscar-35 Planet of the Apes, 2001.*Spoiler/plot- A modern exploratory black hole USAF station is using chimps to navigate around the through a black hole. One chimp is lost and his concerned trainer human follows the chip's spacecraft to only find a ape planet in civil war.*Special Stars- Mark Wahlber, DIR- Tim BUrton.*Theme- Exploration can involve time, history, and societies.*Trivia/location/goofs- Location: Planetary desert or 'Calima' was Trona Pinnacles, Ridgecrest CA and Lake . The background performers at the Trona Pinnacles area were poisoned when the film production decided to use crushed walnut shells instead of Fuller's Earth for desert dust storms. Several people got sick because of the allergies to walnut products and the production was shut-down for some days for safety of all. Look for Charlton Heston in this film playing General Thade's ancient father. Also the many famous lines and scenes appear in this film with many interesting Tim Burton twists.*Emotion- A lush and different plot from the earlier 20th Century Fox film franchise series. Very enjoyable and has some nice homages to the early film more brighter dialog and memorable scenes.*Based on- French author's Boule famous book.

bheadher In another ape universe far far away...sorry, I just hadda do it! Anyway, this reawakening of the ape universe something was left behind...like an amazing, coherent story that grabs every fiber of your being. Sure, it had the obligatory special effects that permeate todays theater world, but it also bears little resemblance to the original for which it was named. Yes, I am essentially a purist so for me if you find an equation that works don't mess with it! At least not much...this version simply did not have any of the magic, the wonder that was in every minute of the 1968 masterpiece. It felt like a pasted together puzzle of several story lines. Chimps are taught to fly souped up space pods for exploration, space storm captures pod with chimp inside, "handler" goes frantic and takes another pod to rescue chimp and gets sucked in to a space warp. OK, that's story one. Story two: chimp handler exits space warp and lands hard on "Earth", only to run into a Super chimp raiding party hunting humans as pets and workers...OK OK, so that is a sorta direct clone of the original. But the remaining 90% of the film is a third story of the handler being befriended by a "cute" female chimp who sympathizes, then she helps him free the oppressed humans. They fight a mini-war with thousands of war apes led by a deranged chimp general, and at the last second we have "missing chimp" arrive in his pod and all the warring apes bow down to "missing chimp" who just happens to resemble their God ape from antiquity...well, that takes you up to the last five minutes of the flick, which turns into a misguided attempt at irony. Not amazing, not incredible, certainly stressful to watch in its entirety.