Wir kehren zurück zum Planet der Affen! Nachdem wir Michael Bay ertragen mussten sind wir nun noch glücklicher als ohnehin über die Tatsache, dass Matt Reeves’ Planet der Affen: Revolution (engl.: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) eine würdige Fortsetzung zu Rise of the Planet of the Apes ist!
Kategorie: Journey to the Planet of the Apes
In 2011 20th Century Fox managed a feat few thought possible: they rebooted the Planet of the Apes Franchise with a prequel that stood on its own avoiding typical prequel pitfalls. Directed by Rupert Wyatt Rise of the Planet of the Apes allowed for a whole new generation to be drawn into a now eight movie franchise which has had its origins in the book La Planète des Singes (1963) by Pierre Boule.
3 years later a new director – Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) – is giving us a sequel focusing on the chimpanzee Caesar (Andy Serkis) and his group of hyper-intelligent apes who are trying to build themselves a homestead 10 years after a deadly virus has wiped out most of humanity. But when a group of humans stumbles into Caesar’s territory the conflict is imminent.
This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
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A decade ago and almost 30 years after the hilarious Battle for the Planet of the Apes Tim Burton decided to start a project he perfected with Alice in Wonderland: to take a great original movie, remove everything remotely interesting and give us a horrendous adaptation in name only.
This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
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A man wakes up on a strange planet ruled by apes
Another man fights telekinetic mutants and blows up earth
A group of apes travels backwards in time
and becomes celebritiesThe child of the timetraveling apes leads an
army of ape butlers to enslave humanity
Four movies, one continuing story have led and prepared us for:
A schoolbus shooting at apes!
This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
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Bart Simpson: And every night the monkey
butlers will regale us with jungle stories.
Nelson: How many monkey butlers will there be?
Bart Simpson: One at first, but he’ll train others.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes has finally realized Bart Simpson’s dream of an army of ape-butlers. And it teaches the valuable lesson that ape-butlers will eventually overthrow society.
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Escape manages to open with the biggest “what the hell“ moment in the entire series, showing our present day (well 70s present day) earth where a ship crashlands that looks oddly familiar. Three astronauts exit, but when they take of their helmets the obvious music cue just makes it even stranger to look at three apes in space uniforms and wonder what the hell just happened.
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The sequel to Planet of the Apes has more than one problem, but the biggest is that it just looks like a bad science fiction movie. Interestingly the first movie while looking considerably dated, featuring camera movements and storytelling techniques that would not resonate with nowadays audience does not feel cheap or bad and holds our interest.
This review is part of a series of reviews Journey to the Planet of the Apes to prepare for the newest installment.
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Following a lot of movie franchises Planet of the Apes is the best part of the franchise and what came after never reached the hights of the original.