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This film is a mess. There is no need to go into detail. Skip it! Buy or rent the original with Charlton Heston. We watched this one again the other night (I have it in my Apes DVD limited edition head set) and it is even worse than how I remembered it in the theaters. (and I thought it was garbage then) The film reminds me of one the worst made for TV sci-fi movies you have even seen. Yikes!
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This remake is only a money machine for "20th Cash Fox", betting that the 2001 audience will not remember the two Charlton Heston movies(Two first of the original series), and from a financial standpoint it did work for the studio. Why Tim Burton accepted to do this is a mystery though, did he have taxes to pay in a hurry ? Definitely the worst of Tim Burton movies, studio command movie, that a director like Tim B. would only accept to do, because he is broke at the time, but even with this explanation this is still hard to understand why Tim B. accepted to compromise himself with this thing. If you are interested in Sci-Fi, and never saw the original movies, from the late sixties, watch them instead of this idiotic remake, even the apes make up was better in the original movies, you could actually tell who was who in the story, because the make up kept all the personality of each character, and where the original movies had intelligence, this poor remake doesn't have any, the story doesn't make much sense at all from the beginning to the end, especially the end. Every Sci-Fi true fan already knew the original series, having the DVD boxset at home already and didn't go see that thing when it came out or just lost 7bucks, but for the person just getting into Sci-Fi, just skip this movie and watch the original movies, they are all much better than this one.
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The video arrived within a few days. The BluRay format is wonderful. I enjoyed it very much.
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It's amazing how half-hearted this movie is. The scenes, costumes, and especially the dialogue are all worse than the original. If this wasn't a remake, the first whole hour you'd be asking yourself "why did they make this movie?". The whole movie is lazy and doesn't bother to explain itself or create any real drama, but just strolls thru a dull plot. The only interesting points are when the monkey comes back in the pod and of course the ending on earth. Otherwise, there are prosaic discussions, escapes, and battles that make up the rest of the movie. Pathetic effort.
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This film is complete junk. I should know better, because hollywood (it gets a small "h" because that is all they deserve) always does this to us. There was only one possible option with a modern version of Apes, and that was to make an exact version of Pierre Boulle's (sp?) brilliant novel, and I mean exact. The original Apes film is a masterpiece, and with the obscene amount of money they had for the budget, they could have hit a home run with the film version of the book, but instead, dreck. Cheers.
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