The "science" almost killed it.

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2011)

The CGI was well done, Ceasar made us cheer for the chimps, and it went a different way than the trailer indicated, which I liked. The way the chimps were handled in the lab, however, nearly killed the entire film for me.
In the video of Bright Eyes working on the tower puzzle, she is wearing a pretty standard primate collar. Where did that go later on? Those do not come off. They are a piece of hardware, not something they wear for decoration. You don't open a chimp enclosure and just hope that your buddy is going to snag it with the dogcatcher pole (which maybe will sap the chimp's strength by virtue of being made of... metal?). If they really did use wild-caught chimps in a lab, they would have had a physical exam and blood work at minimum- they would know if one of them came in pregnant. Did she quietly deliver her baby with no mess? How about testing in mice and rats, working up to smaller cynomolgus monkey? And was 5.5 years supposed to be some crazy marathon of science leading up to Clinical Testing, which apparently has to be approved only by the board of the developing company?
I'm glad I decided not to just leave the theater when faced with these pointless inaccuracies, because I did enjoy much of the rest of the movie, but they could have easily made the lab more realistic.