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Billed as a "re-imagining" of the original film, Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honourable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape make-up (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right. While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea. --Jeff Shannon
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Planet of the bad remakes!,
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This review is from: Planet of the Apes [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
This is not as bad a movie as many would have you believe, however neither is it a good movie.......... if you like sci-fi you can watch this movie on a slow saturday afternoon, if you don't like sci-fi, don't bother.
The movie itself has some great names, Tim Roth, Mark Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter but none of them give a memorable performance. The DVD extras are fantastic! Great DVD-ROM stuff, excellent sections on how the movie was made etc. The extras are really great for movie nerds! But be warned, this is a bad remake, just because you enjoyed the original(s) don't be sure you will like this also.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Total Failure,
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This review is from: Planet of the Apes [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
Together with Steve Martins attempt at equalling Peter Sellers in Pink Panther, this must be the WORST re-recording of a great movie ever. The 1968 movie is a bloody classic, and even without the 68 to compare it to, this would still be subpar, wannabe-Star Trek. Do not, I repeat, Do Not buy this movie without seeing both versions and deciding for yourself. I cannot, however, imagine that you'd settle for this one. Perhaps you'd want both, but the 1968 one is the only one worth owning. And thats coming from a guy, who usually buys tons of worthless crap and happily stashes it, imagining he has some use of it. I've bought movies that I never see, because theyre boring. But Id never buy this one, for it is so horribly bad :(
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I wish I'd read the reviews and saved myself some money.,
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This review is from: Planet of the Apes [DVD] [2001] (DVD)
This is a fairly weak effort, redeemed only by the fact that there are some interesting special features accompanying it. The script is poor and many of the scenes (e.g. the ape city) are too obviously filmed in studios. The ending is a complete non sequitur. The only thing I was left wondering was 'who on earth wrote this rubbish?'.Is this DVD worth 15 quid? If you want to know the answer, do yourself a favour and rent it instead. Nuff said.
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