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Planet of the Apes

2001

Tim Burton

Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, Estella Warren ...

5.1

49,510

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Adventure. Action Set in the future, year 2029, a crew member of a space exploration, astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) finds himself in an upside-down world, where apes can talk and are in charge, while human are their hunted and enslaved by these primates. His present on the strange world, unaffected by its oppression, begins a revolutionary social change.

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Foreman New York Post	"costumes, etc. constantly pleases the eye without ever distracting you from the plot"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Burton's made a film that's respectful to the original, and respectable in itself, but that's not enough. Ten years from now, it will be the 1968 version that people are still renting (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"With the exception of a battle scene (...) the film is monumentally silly"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Largely listless and witless, this extensive reworking of the 1968 sci-fi favorite simply isn't very exciting or imaginative"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A dumbed-down, gibbering festival of nonsense (...) The acting is outrageous and the plot lacks opposable thumbs"	NEG
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"When [it] fixes on being entertaining as single-mindedly as the gorillas bearing down on homo sapiens, it succeeds. But the picture states its social points so bluntly that it becomes slow-witted and condescending"	NEU

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