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1. #Rise of the planet of the apes movies in order movie#
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A powerful sub-plot featuring human hero James Franco’s relationship with his mentally fading father (John Lithgow) spells out a back story Deep Blue Sea got through in a few lines, and takes too much time away from the evolution of Caesar (truly remarkable CG modelled on Andy Serkis’ movements) from adored foundling to imprisoned martyr to revolutionary tactician. It’s likely to please the fans, but how does it rate on its own terms? In truth, it’s a little too ambitious in its drama.

#Rise of the planet of the apes movies in order plus#

There’s even a missing space mission and a Statue Of Liberty, plus a nod to another simian-related apocalypse (12 Monkeys) along the way - though chimp-spotters might also notice thematic parallels with the Matthew Broderick vehicle Project X and - ahem - The Powerpuff Girls Movie.

#Rise of the planet of the apes movies in order movie#

Ten years ago, Tim Burton’s re-imagining updated the make-up and scrambled the twist ending but achieved little else now, Rupert Wyatt – vaulting from the likable British crime movie The Escapist, whose star, Brian Cox, gets a meaty human role here - adds to the apes saga with essentially an alternative version of Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (the one where oppressed talking chimp Caesar leads his dumb brethren in revolt against “lousy human bastards”) that dovetails in neat, witty ways with the original films.Īn early sequence in which the ape hero’s mother is hunted by humans with nets is an exact recreation of the capture of Charlton Heston from the first film, and key lines are repeated in new contexts (yes, that one - but also a one-word response given iconic presence in the sequels). Based on La Planète Des Singes, a French novel by Pierre Boulle, the 1968 movie - a mix of Flash Gordon fantasy-action and comic-book Swiftian satire - spun off sequels (little-known trivia fact: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes was a pre-production title for the last of the original series, Battle For The Planet Of The Apes), TV series, comics, lunch-boxes, masks, action figures etc. The game-changing success of Star Wars tends to wipe away the memory of earlier science-fiction franchises, but before George Lucas signed with 20th Century Fox, the studio’s premier property was Planet Of The Apes.