Planet of the Apes Critic Reviews

The new Planet of the Apes is not a remake, and it's not a sequel. It is an amazing display of imagination.Read the full review

Forget the heavy stuff. This monkey shines.Read the full review

There's one reason to see Tim Burton's flawed, somewhat declawed but often amusing do-over of Planet of the Apes. The apes. What else?Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Are there surprises? A couple of big money ones, notably the ludicrous would-be jaw-dropper of a finale.Read the full review

With the exception of a battle scene with apes on all fours charging the humans, the film is monumentally silly.Read the full review

Outside of a hyper-energetic, irresistibly evil portrayal by Tim Roth as General Thade, the baddest ape in town, the sad truth about Planet of the Apes is that, disappointingly, it's just not very much fun to watch.Read the full review

Largely listless and witless, this extensive reworking of the 1968 sci-fi favorite simply isn't very exciting or imaginative; most surprisingly, given the material, it's also Burton's most conventional and literal-minded film, the one most lacking in his trademark poetic weirdness and bracing flights of fancy.Read the full review

The longer I take to review this movie, the more the absurdities loom. So let me finish before I think about the story's stupidly plotted structure or recall how tiring it was to watch apes perpetually pushing humans to the ground or sending them pirouetting into the air.Read the full review