What the What!?

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2011)

As a huge fan of James Franco I was very excited to see this movie, but it was shockingly disappointing. Firstly, And the biggest problem that I had was that they used human expressions on the ape(as shown in the making of the movie). I believe animal expressions are much more powerful and heart wrenching and this was just ended up looking weird. The anguish was strange and misplaced. Second, the script was incredibly bad, the actors hardly had any lines, which is why I believe Franco gave such a disappointing performance and did not emote well. The plot was under developed. They tried to make it look like a co incidence but it just didn't go down like that. Like the window was left conveniently open, so was the car door. Also they managed to keep the ape inside the house for 3 years without exposing him to their neighbors? And didn't the neighbor know Franco's father? Why so violent then when he saw him in his car? And why would you leave a ape with your mentally handicapped father and vice versa? And how did Caesar know that the antidote could be administered through air? He saw Franco administer the antidote intravenously. Also I have no idea why Pinto was there. She had no screen presence, and they definitely had no chemistry whatsoever. But the reason why I was so disappointed with the movie was because I believe the concept of the movie is absolutely fantastic. Despite all the setbacks I really liked how they showed the torment that we inflict on these beautiful animals and I believe it could have been done so much better.