Save your money. Save your time. It sucked.

The whole movie dragged until the last 15 minutes when the apes "rose". They made this twist on how the whole ape thing started because of a lab experiment. This was even a crap rebellion. It could have been more exciting.

So, this guy has a dad who has Alzheimer's really bad and he's desperately trying to find a cure. This scientist (the guy damn i forget his name) is working for a private pharmaceutical company working on the cure for all of mankind. In this process he finds that his miracle drug gives apes without brain damage higher intelligence and it all goes "Ape" from there.

Yeah, bad pun, I know but I couldn't help it

They throw a twist in there too - they are smuggling poached chimps instead of breeding their own like all other labs on the planet do.
It throws the 'heartbreak' bits in for you to feel bad for the apes.

Anyway, after an hour and a half of mind numbing bullshit to lead up to the ape rebellion, the apes go nuts and rebel.

You get a few catch phrases from the original movie in there and the chimps are named Caesar, Bright Eyes, and other little names from the original movie.

The original movie I got the idea that human kind wiped itself out with nukes or some other disaster and apes became the new master race. This movie implies that we fucked around with their heads, gave them intelligence artificially and they rebelled and took over slowly.

I hated it.

So much for what could have been a good use of CG apes.
All the CGA in the world won't make up for a shit storyline!

I guess they thought the wow factor from the animation would carry it.

It could have been worse -

the Apes could have been taking over because they were upset that we were causing global warming!

They say it is a remake of an older Ape movie but I can't recall what one had this kind of story-line. I think this is full artistic liberty. I'll have to go digging around to see.

John, maybe the sequel they get to that?

(08-22-2011, 10:29 AM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote: John, maybe the sequel they get to that?

Yeah, and the star will be "Al Gape"!

No1 son went to see it again tonight- with his girlfriend, her mother and sister!

Ugh... tell Philip to rent the originals, they're much better.

I went to the Spykids in 4D Sunday, got all up early , bought my tickets online. It opened Saturday and thought I would see a 3d plus aroma movie with the kids and the wife. We walked in and there was 3 people there. I ran back to the booth because I forgot the 3d glasses and..............
FAIL! The movie was not in 3 d but I did forget my scratch and sniff 1-8 card. As a matter of fact I forgot all 4 cards and went back to my seat with my head hung low and passed out the scratch and sniff cards.
Sometimes ya just gotta say HUH!:doh2: It was a regular movie with these stupid cards you scratched when the movie told you to. Not even in 3d. I have been hosed (at least that is what they said)

How annoying was that to sit in a movie scratching and sniffing? <-- insert all the bad jokes here! -->

Any fart smells?

(08-22-2011, 06:01 PM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote: Ugh... tell Philip to rent the originals, they're much better.

He already has.