Words cannot describe the awfulness

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2011)

is this what movies are going to be now. Big CGI effects shows where they don't bother with plots or anything? I guess what made me angry about this film is that it was premised on what happens when the Mark Wallburg character gets back from the Tim Burton abortion and he finds Earth run by the apes now. So there's this virus that makes apes smart and kills humans, and apparently the CDC and its counterparts in the rest of the world became completely inept in containing it.
Of course, this is a PG movie, so they can't actually show anyone getting murdered in the fall of humanity.
They do some ham-fisted imitations of the previous films, including one totally unlikable character who reprises all the Charlton Heston dialog. I guess they got his shock prod when they pried it from his cold dead hands.
Let's talk about CGI, shall we? This is Andy Sirkis once again playing a completely CGI character, and he does it well enough. He plays Caesar, a chimpanzee who gains human intelligence when treated with an Alzheimer's drug meant for John Lithgow.
The thing is, I didn't care about any of the characters except maybe Lithgows. Everyone else was a cut-out cardboard stereotype with no dimension to their character.