Bathing planet of the apes!

Title: Rise of the planet of the apes

Directed by: Rupert Wyatt

Written by: Rick Jaffa; Amanda Silver

Starring: Frieda Pinto, James Franco, John Lithgow, Andy Serkis

Monkey’s are terrifying, I don’t care what anyone says and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, proves this more than anything else. It’s the year 2011 and Will Rodman –James Franco- a scientist at Genesys is working on a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, with Apes as his subjects he makes an unbelievable breakthrough and goes to the board of telling them that he’s done it, “Eureka”. Rodman’s palpitations are only increased by the illogical escape of rogue chimpanzee “Blue Eyes” who loses her shit and tries to kill everyone in sight. Rodman is shut down, his cure is shelved and hopes shattered, but there is Hope and it’s name is Caesar –Andy Serkis- , Bright Eye’s son, who has inherited the gene therapy given to her mother and is a super smart chimp, who knows sign, wears clothes and is a badass chess master. All is well in Rodman’s life he meets super hot vet Caroline Arahana – played by Frieda Pinto – and the three of them live a peaceful life in sunny San Francisco. That is until Rodman decides to prematurely administer the experimental drug he was developing on his father and Caesar’s self awareness gets out of control and he starts asking some Mario Balotelliesque questions leading to him swallowing a human finger and being incarcerated. Like Malcolm X, Ruben “The hurricane” Carter and Jacob Zuma, prison only focuses Caesar more and leads him into the beginning of the path to his Ape revolution in his banana republic Slacks.

The CGI in this film is sublime and the motion sequence animation unparalleled, and Frieda Pinto, wow! I mean WOW! Is she hot! James Franco “nyah” and Caesar’s quite a bad mother, but far too many of the primate enclosure scenes read like “Oz” minus the gang-rape.

Wyatt really knocks it out of the park with his ape-to-ape interactions and the show is stolen by the most hideously ugly cute Orangutan! But the Humans are flat, like Amanda Peet Flat.

It’s not gonna change your life, but it will definitely elicit a “Yoh!” from you.

I give it 6 Hoers