The writers must have at least been familiar with Nim’s story).
Rise of the planet of the apes review movie#
The “good science gone wrong” angle is clever and the representations of animal cruelty are surprisingly accurate (in fact minus the super-intelligence, the movie is shockingly similar to the recent documentary Project Nim. Caeser gets some of the smarty pants juice himself, makes his caged buddies smart and soon they break out and find other apes to join in a wee bit of an uprising.Ĭonceptually, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes is pretty good. At the same time, Franco’s company starts experimenting again and creates more super intelligent chimps.
Caesar is placed in a low-rent primate sanctuary where he’s first abused by his fellow monkeys and a staff member played by Draco from Harry Potter, but soon Caesar becomes the leader. Everything seems perfect until Caesar grows up and accidentally causes a ruckus in the suburbs as monkeys tend to do. Franco adopts the baby monkey who he names Caesar and he proves to be so intelligent that Franco tries the experimental drug on his father (John Lithgow), curing his Alzheimer’s. It turns out that the attack was a result of the monkey protecting a baby no one knew she had and her intelligence was passed along to the child. A monkey test subject shows signs of a significant improvement in intelligence, but has to be put down after violently attacking the research staff. The film stars James Franco as a scientist working on a brain-enhancing drug that could cure Alzheimer’s. That’s as true of thanksgiving dinner as it is of ape-apocalypse-related filmmaking. There are a few interesting ideas floating in this reheated stew, but leftovers will never taste as good as the real thing. Advances in digital effects may allow for CGI primates that move and act like real monkeys, but they look like little more than expensive cartoons and aren’t nearly as enjoyable or believable as the make up effects that the franchise pioneered 43 years ago. What was once a strange and original concept now feels generic. The problem is that there’s really no need for a Planet Of The Apes revival and even less ground left to cover in the series.
Rise does take a slightly different approach to presenting its tale of monkey empowerment, and is clearly an attempt at rebooting the franchise (again) for a new generation. The idea of seeing the great ape uprising is intriguing, but it was already done in 1972’s Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes.
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Certainly the movie is better than it has any right to be given that we’re talking about franchise that’s already had 4 sequels, a remake, and two TV shows. There are moments and ideas in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes that briefly make it feel like a film that should have been made.
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