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LaowaiLoser

This movie is bad, but I really love the makeup. It's unlikely we'll ever see another movie that looks like this due to the advent of more sophisticated CGI. They should have just done a word for word remake of the original. If you haven't seen the original yet give this one a pass until you have.

10 years 8 months ago

igordebraga

The only thing in it that is better than in the original is the make-up. Uneven writing and acting brings down the good visuals and an intimidating villain. Entertains but has much wasted potential.

10 years 7 months ago

Siskoid

I saw it back in the day and it made me swear off Burton's movies forever more. Forcing myself to watch Apes 2001 reminded me why. It's perhaps unfair to evaluate it as a science fiction parable, because it doesn't have a clear message. As SF adventure, it fails as well, because it's so full of plot (and premise) holes, sure, but mostly because many of the leads are so dull. Wahlberg is nowhere near the screen star Heston is, and his character is an emotionless cipher and not the moral center of the film he should be. Tim Roth is way over the top as the villain and quite irritating. Some of the other apes (Bonham-Carter, Clarke Duncan, Giamatti) are much better, but their talents are wasted in a muddled effort whose best quality is perhaps that at least it didn't try to remake the original's story. Then again, maybe it should have. It would have been redundant then, but at least it wouldn't have been terrible and boring.

8 years 10 months ago

squeamish movie lover

Amiably entertaining

14 years 7 months ago

andyhudson

Who turned the gravity down?

2 years 1 month ago

demagogo

Before watching, you knew it was a movie directed by a grown-up goth about planet Earth ruled by talking fucking monkeys. If you can get along with that premise, it is a cool B-movie.

8 years 7 months ago

danisanna

lost interest pretty early on. Doesn't compare to the original. Mark Wahlberg just isn't likable to put up with him in a bad movie. Costume department did a brilliant job, looks great but isn't as entertaining.

10 years 1 month ago

Metalmidget

Costumes here are amazing, but the makers screwed a bit with the timeline and i wonder how thade got on earth since he thinks science is sorcery and is clearly unable to fly a spacecraft (which is also broken btw). Now that's what i call a huge flaw in the story ppl!

12 years 8 months ago

musicguyguy

Re-watching it after a decade... damn, they really got me back then.
The costumes are just LOL.
It was good until about halfway, when it got really awkward. The male lead's acting is also only so-so.

12 years 8 months ago

Mackmannen

If you some might want to have a SMN (Shitty Movie Night) take this movie into the mix. It belongs there.

13 years 7 months ago

KuroSawWhat

The recycled lines from the original made me laugh, only because of how awkwardly out of place they were. Tim Burton was really half-assing it here. Though all of his efforts at re-imagining classics suck, any way.

11 years 7 months ago