The movie is all over the place but stays nowhere. The characters are sterotypical and undergo no development whatsoever. The arrangements of shots oftentimes doesn't make sense at all. For example when they are fleeing the city they are running through all these bedrooms of completely unrelated people, implying that all bedrooms of the freaking city are connected. Wait, what?? Why?? Also there are so many things that don't make sense. So the humans crashlanded on the planet and the apes they brought along then got intelligent (somehow) and took over. Okay. But how the hell did the horses get there? Did they have horses on the space station? Why?? Was there a riding range somewhere on the ship? Or did they have spacesuits for the horses to ride them in space??
The music was as nice as it could get, Danny Elfman did okay here, heard better from him though. The cinematography was average as well, at least no shakey cam (which it certainly would have had if it had been made in 2011). The actor's performance was slumpy at best, especially Mark Wahlberg seemed only to have one face expresseion whatsoever.
The ending saves this movie from being a complete failure and the message is, although expected, a good one. Gives the name Ape Lincoln a whole new dimension.
So to sum it up: What the hell was Tim Burton thinking? Was he like on rehab when he made this? Here you go: 1968 version > 2001 remake.
This deserves nothing more than 3 out of 10. one for the good special effects, one for the okay beginning and end of the movie, half a point each for the music and the female sidekick. And the latter being allocated to be considered for the movie says a lot about the quality of the movie in general.
Watch the original and avoid this piece of crap.
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