I won't spend much time reviewing this film for in all honesty many critics have done that better than i could ever do it. This only a brief take to a unmitigated disaster.This film was one of the the most hyped of its era and it was thought that it could do it. A great director, a cast full of Oscar winner and nominees and extremely well made visuals and make-up, so what when bananas and made this film so bad?For ones it is almost the same with the original, second dialogue that makes me wish to be deaf, third a stiff acting and finally one of the most idiotic ending in film history. I honestly am unable to say anything more .If something is to be said is that this film destroyed the reputation of Tim Burton as a great director and from this point on he is but a shadow of his former glory, many actors reputation was stained by that film and it took them years to come back in to the spotlight. However in all this disaster there is one good thing that came out: A guide of how not to make a remake ,which future directors and studios can uses in order to make good films and I believe that it has help ,if the new trilogy of the Planet of the Apes films is any indication.

I sat to watch this movie full of prejudice based on bad reviews, and in the beginning I was thinking to give up on it. But, I saw it through and my opinion is completely changed. This is very good movie. Almost all arguments against this movie are based on premise that it is remake of cult classic from 1968. If that was the case, compared to original this movie sucks. But it is very wrong angle and it is understandable that conclusions based on wrong premise, filled with emotion and prejudice, will be wrong conclusions.Just try to watch this movie from point of view of someone who did not see original franchise and have no idea what is it all about, and you'll enjoy great movie. Because this is not really remake. The only thing they share is basic idea that in distant future apes will rule the Earth. Other than that those are two completely different movies. Characters are new and different, story begins slightly similar, but develops and ends completely different. This is typical Tim Burton's dark fairy-tale, original in every way, except for stealing basic idea from cult classic. Story is interesting and brings completely new ideas that make it essentially different from 1968. movie. The way apes rise to be on the top of evolutionary scale, event that stops the battle and the way main character ends his adventure are three main and totally unexpected twists that are completely new and original. I saw all five movies from old franchise and I was still surprised by every plot twist here. Nothing was already seen or too predictable. Because this is not really remake. Crash-landing scene is the only one visually similar to 60's movie. But if you think about it, he had to land somehow, and there are not so many ways to do it and survive. I mean, he could not teleport himself or catapult from ship and land by parachute from outer space...8/10

I am very surprised IMDb rated this movie lower than 6. I watched this movie when I was in elementary school, it was a groundbreaking setting to me back in that age. The spaceship, the monkey spaceman, and the time-traveling, and the complete developd apes society, all these settings were awesome packed. I watched it again many years later, and I had some different thoughts about the ape girl.In the movie, human girl and the human guy didn't have a happy ending, and I felt pity to the girl when I was little. However after the second watch, I felt much more touch with the Ape girl. She is a noble birth in apes planet, yet she is smart, curious and full of sympathy to human unlike other ruthless apes, they treat human as pet or slave. When she was attracted to a human, she was so brave to fight the society. I couldn't figure out this conflict when I was little, because kid only knows hero and heroine should be together. Simple left me after I grow up. Last mind of the rewatching, I would want to say, it is OK to be different because your inappropriate might be right in future. Even your love is across species. Lol.

This film, directed by Tim Burton, is a sci-fi work based on a simple script: an astronaut inadvertently falls on a planet similar to Earth, where humans are subjugated to a dominant monkey race. From there, he tries to organize a resistance and create conditions to return to his ship and travel back to Earth. That is, Burton didn't know how to use his famous creativity to show us something new. This story is almost entirely something we have already seen and read (if we consider the origin of everything, Pierre Boulle's book), dressed in new clothes, more modern or different. The work of the actors is generally acceptable, with Marc Wahlberg standing out with the main role, followed by Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Roth. The human characters are downright poor and main character's love interest attempts always seem out of context. Overall, it's a movie good enough to be seen but not enough to be remembered.