Plot Outline

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2004)

The beginning of this movie takes place at the beginning of time. There are a bunch of apes that seem to be at the beginning of time on earth. The apes also are separated into what it seems like two different groups. Then they find this black thing on the planet and all the apes are just looking at it. After this one group of the apes learns how to use weapons such as bones to kill each other. After they fight the ape throws the bone into the air and time fast forwards to 2001 and the bone turns into a satellite.
The next part of the movie is the mission that Dave and the rest are suppose to go on. The received signals from Jupiter and sent them on mission to go find out. Dave goes on one ship and was able to talk to his daughter before he is sent on his big mission. Dave and another pilot are awake and able to keep and eye on things. There are other member on board in hibernation. When there on the moon they see that black thing that the apes noticed.
H.A.L is the computer that is in control over the ship. He is given his own personality. H.A.L has cameras all over the ship looking over everything. At first H.A.L seems fine and able to function fine. Then he makes a mistake on one of the satellites saying that there is a problem with it, Dave goes and checks in out and finds out that there is nothing wrong. Dace and the other astronaut decide to manually shut down H.A.L in case he makes more serious mistakes. H.A.L let the other astronaut fly out in space and Dave had to go in and manually shut it down.
The end of the movie can be interpreted in different ways. Dave ends up in some room that seems to pass time by very quickly. He starts off as the astronaut then as the man at the seat then in bed and finally as the baby. He is starting life all over again. Once your life is over you live something else after. The baby may not have been going to our earth bu rather a different one in another galaxy. Then when flying to Jupiter he went through all those lights. The final seen is the baby flying over the earth keeping you wondering what this means.