Rise of the Planet of the Apes

If you've ever seen the original five Planet of the Apes movies, you know that the production quality goes down with each movie. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes was, I believe, the third movie in the original series and really wasn't bad, although some of the background ape makeup was not so well done. The new movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, roughly follows the Conquest story line and no expense was spared when creating the main character, Caesar, the leader of the ape rebellion.

The movie was pretty good. Caesar is a chimpanzee who is given a drug that makes him very smart and we follow his growth from precocious baby chimp to the leader of the ape rebellion, and each step along the way we are made to understand and sympathize with every decision Caesar makes, including killing a few humans. The only thing that doesn't make it for me is that Caesar is almost all CGI. There's still something about computer animation that doesn't capture reality. Caesar is incredibly well done, but I still look at CGI characters and think there's something just not right here. But, it doesn't distract from the story very much because the movie is well done. See it if you can!

Your thoughts?


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1318514/