Rise of the planet of the apes 2011: Movie Review

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 2011)

Title: Rise of the planet of the apes Release Date: 11th August 2011 Certificate: 12A
Plot: Will Rodman (James Franco) is working in a medical research facility, trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's motivated by his dad Charles Rodman (John Litgow) who has contracted the disease. He rushes the testing proses and pushes trough a working prototype, but while the board is given a presentation the ape called sparkle eyes escapes and goes on a rampage and the whole project is shelved and all remaining chimps are destroyed apart form sparkle eyes baby. Will takes home the baby chimp and realizes the chimp inhereted the cure but because he hand no brain defects it enhanced his higher brain functions. With this new information he gives the cure to his farther who improves almost instantaneously. When Caesar is hurt Will takes him to a zoo vet called Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto) and Caesar uses sign language to hook up the two unsuspecting lovers. I will leave it there as not to spoil the film for you.
Review: This was a film I wasn't planning on watching due to the fact I am a fan of the originals, from what I seen of the adverts they had changed the story line and that's my one pet peeve, directors/writers can put there own spin on the storyline but they must keep to the basic storyline of the original. They did surprise me though even though they changed how Caesar came to be the film was excellent the story line was flawless, it even brought a tear to my eyes a few times. The CGI affects was done to perfection you could believe the apes was there with the real cast, they moved fluently even down to the hairs on Caesar when he was sprayed with the water cannon. I was sitting on the edge of my seat when they was crossing the bridge feeling worried for the apes, that's when I know a film has done its job it made me feel for the characters in the film.
Andy Serkis as always played his character with everything he had, I didn't think he could play a role as good as he played Golum but he proved me wrong.
James Franco and Frida Pinto played of each other well you could feel there love for Caesar and each other, i wanted the cure to work on his father just as much as he did.