There is some monkey business to take care of and I think you are going to enjoy it. It has taken more than 4 decades but finally Hollywood has it right
Chimps, gorillas, and other primates take some mind altering drugs and give a big hairy smackdown to the puny humans in the film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes".
James Franco plays a scientist who is trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. He has a personal connection because his dad, played by John Lithgow, has Alzheimer's.Trouble with one of the test chimps necessitates putting all of them down, Franco sneaks home a baby that's secretly just been born. He names the chimp Caesar, who grows up to be a very smart monkey.
As luck would have it Caesar gets too smart and dangerous and is sent to a"primate shelter" or, as I call it, ape prison. Angered by his incarceration Caesar uses his brain to rally the other apes, they break out, and terrorize the San Francisco.
This is the seventh Planet of the Apes movie and the best, by far, since the original with Charlton Heston back in1968. In fact this is the prequel to that movie. The great Andy Serkis best known as Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" films, provides yet another wonderful performance-capture acting role as the CGI-ed Caesar. This is his movie. Breaking it down the ape uprising due to the evil prison guards seemed a bit cliche but the monkey mayhem afterwards was enjoyable in the third act.The flick-o-meter gives Rise of the Planet of the Apes four out of five.This prequel to the 1968 sci-fi classic explains exactly how Earth came to be overrun by apes while the human population died out.The film's central morals of human arrogance and corporate greed were a bit heavy handed but it wasn't a big enough monkey wrench to mess with the movie.Send me an email to let me know what you think by scanning the QR code IN THE VIDEO with your smartphone. Just point your phone at the screen, take a pic, text me a message, and send it.
So now you know before you go.
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