Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    2011

    Synopsis

    A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed him.

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    Cast

    • Andy SerkisCaesar
    • James FrancoWill Rodman
    • Freida PintoCaroline Aranha
    • John LithgowCharles Rodman
    • Brian CoxJohn Landon
    • Tom FeltonDodge Landon
    • Tyler LabineRobert Franklin
    • Karin KonovalMaurice / Court Clerk
    • Terry NotaryRocket / Bright Eyes
    • Christopher GordonKoba

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Orlando Sentinel

      Audacious, violent and disquieting, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a summer sequel that's better than it has any right to be.
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The movie has its pleasures, although human intelligence is not one of them. Caesar, to begin with, is a wonderfully executed character, a product of special effects and a motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis, who earlier gave us Gollum in "Lord of the Rings."
    • 75

      The A.V. Club

      Wyatt brings a light touch to the potentially grim material - too light when it drops in some groan-inducing references to the original film - but he keeps the action compelling whether focusing on apes as they run amok or as they quietly contemplate their next move.
    • 70

      Arizona Republic

      Once you see that ape, named Caesar, riding a galloping horse in triumph, it's awfully hard not to get sucked in. It's not dumb fun, exactly. It's smart dumb fun.
    • 70

      Variety

      Thanks to stunning advances in performance capture technology, director Rupert Wyatt successfully ditches the cumbersome makeup appliances of past chapters, building the story around a cast of photoreal CG simians convincing enough to identify with as characters, rather than just special effects.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      The movie is zippier than Tim Burton's oddly lifeless 2001 "Planet of the Apes" remake, but unlike good sci-fi, it doesn't signify anything, or really even try to.
    • 58

      Tampa Bay Times

      Feels like half of a good movie, much of it revealed in admittedly thrilling trailers.
    • 50

      Miami Herald

      James Franco looks more bored and distracted in Rise of the Planet of the Apes than he did when he was hosting the Oscars: Watching the movie, I kept waiting for him to pull out his iPhone, aim it at the camera and take a snapshot while mugging sheepishly. Has there ever been a film with a less engaged protagonist?

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