Planet of the Apes (2001)
Air Force astronaut Leo Davidson trying to retrieve a monkey in space ends up landing on a planet inhabited by talking human-like apes. All the apes take this same 'human hating' attitude, with the exception of one, chimpanzee activist named Ari.
12 July 1969
22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA
25 July 1963, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
4 October 1923, Wilmette, Illinois, USA
13 June 1958, Maracaibo, Venezuela
27 June 1991, California, USA
April1973, Monroe, Louisiana, USA
September 19, 1967 in Big Spring, Texas, USA
1 November 1973, El Paso, Texas, USA
20 December 1995, California, USA
17 October 1976, London, England, UK
14 May 1961, London, England, UK
2 March 1971, Sydney, Australia
1 December 1957, Nairobi, Kenya
6 June 1962, Athens, Georgia, USA
23 December 1978, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
11 September 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 April 1952, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
28 February 1991
26 July 1945, Berlin, Maryland, USA
12 April 1967, Northern California, USA
23 April 1979, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
23 October 1989, California, USA
October 05, 2006
Burton's singular vision is missing from this mishmash of a remake, part sci-fi, part adventure, part ape-human romance, but unsatisfying on any level. Mark Wahlberg's pallid turn doesn't help and neither does the PG-13 rating which proves confiningAugust 09, 2001
Call it a letdown, worsened by the forces of shoddy screenwriting.July 27, 2001
Works equally well as a popcorn adrenaline-heart-pumper as it does a pop-philosophical inquiry into the nature of humanity.December 06, 2004
While Edward Scissorhands could have come from no other imagination, Apes could have been directed by any action director and come out fairly similar to this.September 07, 2012
The finale unfolds in one of the most nonsensical series of events ever created on film...January 06, 2002
Splendidly envisioned and boldly executed.August 01, 2001
A campy, juiced-up ker-splat, busy with clumsy pyrotechnics and never nearing the vicinity of satire.December 27, 2010
Decent re-imagining of the classic.August 01, 2003
...one of the most entertaining check-your-brain-at-the-door flicks in recent years.July 30, 2001
One more disappointment in a summer of lackluster 'event pictures.'July 13, 2004
It is like an elaborate card trick that has 30 steps but the deck was rigged so that the card you picked was obviously predeterminedJuly 30, 2001
Offers proof of Hollywood's simian instincts: Monkey see old hit, monkey do remake.