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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 47% Rotten Page   1   C "The fruits of Burton's imagination are almost always worth seeing on the big screen, but don't go expecting anything intelligent."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna "It's hard to get your dander up about who's on what side or what side will 'win,' because the characters are so underdeveloped and the plot kind of lurches from set-piece to set-piece."   Philadelphia City Paper   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "...will forever be remembered as one of the most unforgivable remakes I've ever seen."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 3/4 "...one of the most entertaining check-your-brain-at-the-door flicks in recent years."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "The most uneven motion picture Tim Burton has ever made."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman A- "I can't think of a better person to have directed this film than Tim Burton. His touch is sly and whimsical."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "While respectable enough on its own low terms, the picture is disappointingly conventional and unimaginative."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Hits the bull’s eye with its thematically relevant portrait of the clash between hostility and hospitality as the major challenge facing humans in the twenty-first century."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "One more disappointment in a summer of lackluster 'event pictures.'"   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "it's hard to justify the remake, er, "revisit," beyond the improvements in make-up special effects and computer-generated imagery"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "Tim Burton's "reinvention" of '68 sci-fi classic boasts awesome makeup and design -- and awful writing."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Perhaps most disappointing is the lack of psychological subtleties..."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "Doesn't have the solidity of theme of the 1968 movie. Also ... Burton's version seems to force an ending that is neither thoughtful nor effective."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Not very impressive from a storytelling aspect."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 7/10 "A fun, summer movie with laughs, creepiness and a really cool premise."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 4.5/5 "Heston drops all idealistic pretenses of his Moses persona and plays a self-centered, nihilistic astronaut who finds no love back on Earth."   ToxicUniverse.com   John A. Nesbit 5/10 "The movie creates little excitement, builds virtually no suspense, and altogether shuns any semblance of characterization."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 1 "It is like an elaborate card trick that has 30 steps but the deck was rigged so that the card you picked was obviously predetermined"   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 2.5/4 "Burton es mucho mejor cineasta de lo que El Planeta de los Simios deja ver"   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 5/5 "Planet of the Apes rocked my world."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 4 "Stunning, amazing, Oscar-caliber makeup by Rick Baker; astoundingly flexible and natural, allows for great lip movement and facial expressions of the actors underneath."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3/4 "If you're as much of a sucker for apes as I am you're in for a treat, but if you're looking for compelling human characters and challenging subtext, you've got the wrong movie."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest C- "...if 20th Century Fox had set the proverbial 100 chimps in front of typewriters they would have gotten a better result than this adaptation of the Pierre Boulle novel..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 8/10 "Los puristas dirán que esta nueva versión es una afrenta a la anterior; la única verdad es que estamos delante de otra cinta. No existe ni puede existir la comparación."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 2.5/5 "Whatever the faults of the first Planet and its sequels, they were all about something; this film is pure, empty (if gorgeous) spectacle."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 3/4 "Neither superior nor inferior to the original, but it does serve as a nice companion piece."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "Anyone looking for a good, fun popcorn movie in which monkeys get their butts kicked will get what precisely they expect."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "The technical wizardry redeems a largely uninspired script that resorts to a forced, nonsensical twist to fuel post-movie discussion."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3/5 "Had enough of a fun story and great visuals to make it worth my five bucks."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3.5/4 "In the tradition of Independence Day, Twister, and the original Jurassic Park, this is a great Summer Movie."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 4/5 "As in all of Burton’s movies, including Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, the art direction is intricate, meticulous, and strangely beautiful."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C+ "despite some wonderful moments, this Planet of the Apes isn't going to make anyone forget Charlton Heston sinking to his knees in the surf."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 3/4 "It is a potent action film with some philosophical meat on its bones"   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 5/10 "You damn dirty apes! You remade it! Didn't you?!?"   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg "Burton brings time and experience to this advanced retelling of the familiar tale."   Eclipse Magazine   Sean O'Connell C "If only Burton cared as much about having real characters as he did about having real actors."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 1/4 "In a film at least tangentially about evolution it strikes me as poignant that in 31 years, this Planet of the Apes is actually a good deal dumber than the original."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2.5/4 "It doesn't hold a candle to the original."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell 8/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf A- Read review   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 4/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 5/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger Read review   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker Read review   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 47% Rotten Page   1