C+ |
*** |
-2|
Teens & Up
Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a smartly made, effective movie — but what sort of movie is it, exactly?
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B |
*** |
-1|
Teens & Up*
Adapted by Rod Serling from Pierre Boulle’s Swiftian social
satire, Planet of the Apes is basically a feature-length
"Twilight Zone" episode, with all that that implies for good and
ill. There’s an ironic sci-fi reversal of real-world conditions,
a rather thin plot padded to fill out the running time,
heavy-handed but sincere allegorical moralizing,
thought-provoking social satire, and a stunningly imagined
climactic twist.
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C |
**½ |
-2|
Teens & Up*
Helena Bonham Carter is also convincingly simian as the
chimpanzee Ari, though less so than Thade, since she has to be
visibly feminine and potentially attractive to the human lead
(Mark Wahlberg). But the gorillas, like Attar (Michael Clarke
Duncan) and Krull (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), are as compellingly
realistic as Thade, if not quite as expressive.
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