Burton attempts to match it with a new statue/twist ending, evidently derived from Pierre Boulle's novel, which is laughable, anti-climactic, and almost scandalously nonsensical.Įverything here is just that bit less sophisticated: the acting is outrageous and the plot lacks opposable thumbs. Where most movies run out of ideas well before the finish, this ended with a surreal image of unexampled power and narrative daring: Heston raging at the ruined Statue of Liberty on the post-apocalyptic beach.
PLANET OF THE APES FULL MOVIE 2001 MOVIE
The Charlton Heston movie was a brilliant Swiftian satire: sly, disturbing, subversive. And in keeping with the anti-Darwinian premise, it is a hilarious regression from the original, a lower order of being.
It is a claim that passes lightly over the existing parade of dud sequels from the early 1970s: Beneath, Escape From, Conquest Of and Battle For, and also the later, dire TV series which more or less imprisoned poor old Roddy McDowall in his monkey suit.īut his re-imagining is a dumbed-down, screeching, gibbering, banana-peeling, PG Tips-drinking festival of nonsense. Director Tim Burton, here moving heavily into the blockbuster mainstream, has been quick to tell us that this is a "re-imagining", not a remake, and still less a sequel to Franklin J Schaffner's 1968 screen classic.
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I t's time once again to crash-land on that mad, bad, counter-evolutionary planet where a bunch of hairy, counter-jumping apes lord it over us humans.
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