It was surprisingly good, you know when you just go into a movie expecting very little and walking away surprised with how good it actually was. When something exceeds your expectations that's probably the best response anyone could get for their movie. It was a lot better then I expected is something directors should strive for... at least someone like Michael Bay anyway.
I saw James Franco sort of sleep walk through the role, he didn't really need to do much but I guess that was more the fact that the motion capture actor that was playing the Caesar the super smart Ape stole the entire movie. Andy Serkis who also motion capped the role of Gollum for Lord of the Rings deserves a damn Oscar nomination for the amount of emotion he brought into a CGI monkey. That CGI Ape showed more human emotion then most actors in Hollywood these days. It was a thing of beauty and the CGI team also deserve credit.
It was also nice to see John Lithgow in a movie, lately he's been on shows like 30 Rock or How I Met Your Mother as sort of a older and aloof character... nice to see he's found himself a niche character to play at his age. Not a lot of work for older gentlemen going around Hollywood these days. That goes double for Women... Unless your name is Betty White.
Also it was interesting seeing Milfroy (Tom Felton) replace a wand for a cattle prod, still being the same smarmy asshole but this time he's abusing apes rather then filthy mud blood wizards...
Every time he used the cattle prod on a Monkey I quietly thought "CRUCIO" in my head.
Alright I've revealed too much now... Then again like a true (sort of) black person I did spend most of the time talking over the movie.
There was also a scene where English Businessman version of Kanye West walked into a room full of Apes about to beat the living shit out of him and I was expecting the head Ape to just yell. "S'cool bro, we're on the same team" and then the rest of the movie was just a bunch of apes going around killing White People.
That would've been the most hilarious way to End the movie... and I already know I'm going to hell so don't bother reminding me.
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