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Rating: 8/10 (15 January 2012)

If you liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes, consider watching the documentary Project Nim, which came out on DVD the same year 2011. I happened to see Project Nim right after seeing Rise of The Planet of the Apes, and was shocked at how similar they are.
Project Nim is the true story of a group of psychologists who raise a baby chimp from birth to see if he will develop language if he is raised in a human family. Like Caesar, Nim is taken away from his mother in captivity, he learns sign language like Caesar, he bonds to the humans like Caesar, he eventually starts to show his chimp aggression like Casear, he gets put back into captivity like Caesar, he gets sent to a medical research lab like Caesar. The only difference is the ending. Nim does not start a chimp uprising like Caesar. I was ready to cheer an uprising, since it was criminal what was done to Nim, but fortunately he gets some comfort in the end, better late than never.
Anyway, Project Nim would make a great double bill with Rise of the Planet of the Apes.