Tim Burton and the writers in 2001 did a much better job!

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2012)

It completely departs from the original with the lab grown chimps thinking home is in the California national park ! Do bananas grow in the park ? Why would climbing a pine tree in northern California feel like home to an ape? And why does the genetic testing of apes begin in The year 2000 not in the past? Also, annoying feature was the use of fire hoses being turned on the apes like they were turned on African Americans in the 1960's ! I found that to be racially derogatory and disrespectful of a painful part of American history.
In addition, the apes were more intelligent violent and had fully developed characters in Tim Burton' planet of the apes. It even contains a cameo from Chaleston Heston! No true fan of the the planet of the apes, no purest could possibly appreciate this film. How IMDb could rate this film a 7.7 and the first planet of the apes is a 5.6 is insane!
The 2001 planet of apes used a ton of stunt people , not crazy looking CGI apes.CGI has its value but remember it is fake and displaces a lot of talented professionals. Wake up people!