The movie stars James Franco (Date Night, Eat Pray Love), Tom Felton (Harry Potter, Anna and the King), Brian Cox (Red, Bravehart), Andy Serkis (King Kong 2005, Lord of the Ring trilogy), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionare, Miral), John Lithgow (Kinsey, A Civil Action), Tyler Labine (Reaper, Control Alt Delete), David Hewlett (Splice, Boa vs Python), and Leah Gibson (A Night for Dying Tigers).
The plot is a prequel (never thought much about it beng a prequel) where Franco works for a drug company doing research on apes. he gives Sirkis (Ceaser) a drug hoped to help Alzahimers. The drug gets distributed to other apes by Sirkis.
I thought it was interisting that an act of compassion, saving a condemed baby ape, has such dire results. I guess that just proves no good deed goes unpunished. Some ot the redwoods look fake and not real. CG has come a long way but still it cant quiet come up to reality.
I dont know if the plot lind for Lithgow was similar to Flowers for Algernon. Lithgow got the drug and got better then he reverts to his problems with Alzahimers. I think they used a clip from a Charlston heston movie, it sounded like him. Then the next line was "get your hands off me you damn dirty ape." I think that was the line but am not totally sure. That may of been the best part of the movie for me.
The end of the movie, the last shot, almost seemed like it could be the end of the series if they decided not to remake the next one in the series. The credits did seem to explain how the apes and humans changed places as the top species.
So here is the thing about this remake. It did nothing to make me feel like I had to see it. If you have seen the origional you are fine. I suspose if you are you are young enough as not to have seen any of the origonal movies then maybe go and see it. It was an ok remake of a decent origional.
Im going to have to rate it as a C or C-. If you have seen the origional skip it. If you are young and saw the first remake then I would say it might be worth going to see.
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