Planet of the Apes (2001)

Best movie ever!

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

I won't spend much time reviewing this film for in all honesty many critics have done that better than i could ever do it. This only a brief take to a unmitigated disaster.This film was one of the the most hyped of its era and it was thought that it could do it. A great director, a cast full of Oscar winner and nominees and extremely well made visuals and make-up, so what when bananas and made this film so bad?For ones it is almost the same with the original, second dialogue that makes me wish to be deaf, third a stiff acting and finally one of the most idiotic ending in film history. I honestly am unable to say anything more .If something is to be said is that this film destroyed the reputation of Tim Burton as a great director and from this point on he is but a shadow of his former glory, many actors reputation was stained by that film and it took them years to come back in to the spotlight. However in all this disaster there is one good thing that came out: A guide of how not to make a remake ,which future directors and studios can uses in order to make good films and I believe that it has help ,if the new trilogy of the Planet of the Apes films is any indication.

I sat to watch this movie full of prejudice based on bad reviews, and in the beginning I was thinking to give up on it. But, I saw it through and my opinion is completely changed. This is very good movie. Almost all arguments against this movie are based on premise that it is remake of cult classic from 1968. If that was the case, compared to original this movie sucks. But it is very wrong angle and it is understandable that conclusions based on wrong premise, filled with emotion and prejudice, will be wrong conclusions.Just try to watch this movie from point of view of someone who did not see original franchise and have no idea what is it all about, and you'll enjoy great movie. Because this is not really remake. The only thing they share is basic idea that in distant future apes will rule the Earth. Other than that those are two completely different movies. Characters are new and different, story begins slightly similar, but develops and ends completely different. This is typical Tim Burton's dark fairy-tale, original in every way, except for stealing basic idea from cult classic. Story is interesting and brings completely new ideas that make it essentially different from 1968. movie. The way apes rise to be on the top of evolutionary scale, event that stops the battle and the way main character ends his adventure are three main and totally unexpected twists that are completely new and original. I saw all five movies from old franchise and I was still surprised by every plot twist here. Nothing was already seen or too predictable. Because this is not really remake. Crash-landing scene is the only one visually similar to 60's movie. But if you think about it, he had to land somehow, and there are not so many ways to do it and survive. I mean, he could not teleport himself or catapult from ship and land by parachute from outer space...8/10

(Originally seen a few years ago) I was never a fan of Tim Burton, I didn't care much for his Batman films, I didn't like Edward Scissorhands and the only film I really enjoyed of his, was Sleepy Hollow. Now here's a modern film of his, and it's absolutely dreadful; Mark Wahlberg who can be good, is laughably awful here, along with the rest of the cast, and the apes are terrible, they look like cartoonish toys, as for the dialogue it's abysmal, much like the production design, Burton's direction, the action sequences, the god-awful writing and the horrible plotting. Planet of the Apes is one of the worst film's ever made.

In another ape universe far far away...sorry, I just hadda do it! Anyway, this reawakening of the ape universe something was left behind...like an amazing, coherent story that grabs every fiber of your being. Sure, it had the obligatory special effects that permeate todays theater world, but it also bears little resemblance to the original for which it was named. Yes, I am essentially a purist so for me if you find an equation that works don't mess with it! At least not much...this version simply did not have any of the magic, the wonder that was in every minute of the 1968 masterpiece. It felt like a pasted together puzzle of several story lines. Chimps are taught to fly souped up space pods for exploration, space storm captures pod with chimp inside, "handler" goes frantic and takes another pod to rescue chimp and gets sucked in to a space warp. OK, that's story one. Story two: chimp handler exits space warp and lands hard on "Earth", only to run into a Super chimp raiding party hunting humans as pets and workers...OK OK, so that is a sorta direct clone of the original. But the remaining 90% of the film is a third story of the handler being befriended by a "cute" female chimp who sympathizes, then she helps him free the oppressed humans. They fight a mini-war with thousands of war apes led by a deranged chimp general, and at the last second we have "missing chimp" arrive in his pod and all the warring apes bow down to "missing chimp" who just happens to resemble their God ape from antiquity...well, that takes you up to the last five minutes of the flick, which turns into a misguided attempt at irony. Not amazing, not incredible, certainly stressful to watch in its entirety.