If 'Planet of the Apes' wasn't in the title, it would just be called 'Semi-intelligent monkeys gone wild'

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2011)

Well let me start off on a good note. The acting was pretty good. The script didn't suck. So those things made the film watchable.
But seriously I found it a bore. So the plot goes somewhat like this. A brilliant scientist (Franco) comes up with a retro-viral solution to Alzheimer's and administers them to (CGI) chimpanzee subjects. One chimp shows improvement but goes crazy one day and is shot down. Just before that she gave birth to a baby chimp, Caeser, which Franco is now taking care of. Along the way Franco meets that Indian chick, they both care for Caeser and at times Caeser scares the neighbours. YAWN. That alone takes up more than a quarter of the film. And it only moves on gradually. Caeser than scares the neighbourhood by biting off some guys finger and then he's sent to live in a zoo sort of place which is run by Malfoy and he treats them like crap, yawn. Then in the last 20 minutes they rush everything. Caeser breaks free and administers an airborne strain of the anti-Alzheimer virus and then the rest of the monkeys become intelligent and then they break out and trash a part of San Francisco and then they settle in the nearby redwood forest. THE END.
That was it. And the only reason why people will watch this because it has 'Planet of the Apes' on the title. I mean seriously its called 'PLANET of the Apes' not 'Downtown San Francisco of the Apes'. Where was the sense of global urgency? None of that happens in the film. Only in a mid-credits scene is there a small sign of a global pandemic. I seriously think Charleton Heston is turning in his grave. But that's just me.