Apes Are Back

Rating: 7/10 (19 July 2014)

The original Apes films were the movies which kept FOX studios in business. They were made on the cheap and made enough money to get the studio going until Star Wars Episode 4 blockbuster came along and saved FOX. These films were based on evolution and man's only faults destroying himself and allowing the apes to take over.
This reboot of the series heads in a different direction. Instead of a war destroying man in this one, the issue is to appeal to the aging baby boomer's. A company is trying to find a cure to Alzheimers in order to help people. Then the drugs are tried doing an experiment on apes. An accidental side effect is that the drugs seem to raise the apes intelligence.
This is a different idea and FOX actually has more money now so they can upgrade the special effects and change things around. This might work, as the second film is in theaters now. Will be interesting to see if the followup can be effective.
This film borrows a lot of the classic dialog from the original series. I think it turns out OK, though it would be even better if they could really discover a cure for old age diseases. That might be asking more than the film makers can deliver, but it would really boost the appeal to revisiting the planet of the apes.