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Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray]
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3An entertaining misfire (potential SPOILER alert)
3Spank that monkey!
2Tim Burton's Folly
3Lacks the Punch of the Original
5Planet with a twist.
3Not very good
3Wheres the other disc????
11%Yikes!
11%The worst Tim Burton movie ever.
50%Planet of the Apes
21%There is little redeeming about this movie
11%DRECK.
11%WHAT IS NEXT PLANET OF THE APES THE MUSICAL?
11%My Play3 can't detect Planet of the Apes [Blu-ray] disc
31%A Mixed Bag, but Ultimately a Decent Addition to the Apes Saga
41%A spectacular adventure...that some people will hate for their own reasons.
50%Planet of the Apes (Special Edition)
41%Apes Rule!
11%This movie reeks :(
11%Just Plain Stupid -- Actually Zeo stars
50%Closer to the Novel we go!!
40%Video/Audio quality is great; the movie is so-so
31%Imagine a World in Which...
11%Insulting for people of faith, in my opinion
2Planet of the Numb skulls
20%Lo de menos es el disfraz
10%Like A Fart, In Movie Form
31%Planet Of The Apes
11%HORRIBLE! BURTON WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! .....YOU CUT OUT IT'S BRAIN YOU BLOODY BABOON!
21%Re-Imagine This!
11%Blu-ray Helps one of the more Realistic Apes Films
11%Absolute trash!
11%Missed the entire point of the original film.
50%Aping Tim Burton On
41%Not as good as the original book
30%3.5; it almost feels like it's his worst yet misunderstood...
10%No offense to Markie Mark ...
11%Tim Burton's Worst Film
40%:0)
50%Planet of the Apes
10%Come Back Roddy McDowell!
11%What Was The Point?
30%Good Up To Date Remake.....
50%BRING ON THE SEQUEL!
11%Ugh...
10%Verry Boring FIlm + 30 Hours of more Boring Video behind this film.
41%Popcorn Friendly
20%Started out OK, then......well, not sure what happened
10%shame on Hollywood & Tim Burton
41%Entertaining Remake, Sequel Please...
41%Fun Fantasy With A Purpose
31%Big-time hit and miss film
30%Entertaining Re-Visit to a Revamped Planet of the Apes
31%Both better & worse than what critics claim
51%a lot of fun!
20%Disappointing
41%I loved the movie but....
30%Enjoyable in its own Tim Burton way
41%HAS EVERYONE GONE BANANAS!
41%enjoyable monkeying around
31%Irritating Ending - Liked the music though
21%One Mushy Banana
21%Devolution
51%fun monkey buisness
41%entertaining
11%Pure Hollywood Dreck- Burton's Folly
11%An insult to the original.
41%I really liked this!
41%Better than expected!
31%Generally Fun Romp if You Check Your Skepticism at the Door
50%my whole family loves this
51%this is fun!
21%Boring and Tedious Film
41%magical fun
11%Remakes Are Mistakes
41%good time adventure flick
41%this old school Apes fan is very happy with Burton's Planet
20%Welcome to the Monkey House
50%Burton's Inventive Imagination
40%not highbrow - but it is fun
21%Burton Goes Ape
21%extremely disappointing
30%not a very good version
41%loved it!
11%(...)
40%not perfect, but still more fun than a barrel of humans
21%Planet of sour grapes
30%Example of how a decent movie can be ruined by a bad ending!
21%Great Special Effects, Imagery. Story Severely Lacking ...
21%And the point was...
11%Should have spent more time apeing the original.
40%Waiting for part 2?
3It WON'T Make You Sorry You Were Born a Human
50%Under Rated - Awesome Movie!
21%Tim Burton's Revisioning a Little Blurry
31%THE MOVIE SELF-DESTRUCTS
11%What a waste of a good novel
11%Piece of Crap!
11%Stupid Gimmick--Poor Commentary
50%just as good as......
21%Not quite as bad as I thought, but original towers over it
21%Beautiful images don't mean a good movie...
50%Comparisons Allowed
21%The worst film Tim Burton has ever directed to date
31%Stick with the original
40%Different Perspective
30%A planet where apes evolved from men?
3A fun, but pointless remake
31%Should have left well enough alone
4Great message, cool planet, average movie..
3Burton plays it safe, Marky Mark plays it bland.
11%DO NOT watch this awful movie!!
3Not a great effort especially from Burton!
11%Really Baad
21%Tim Burton phones one in...
1Started pretty good, but...
2aside from the ending it's almost unwatchable
3Guilty By Association
31%Okay for first-time viewers, not so good for classic fans
21%It's a madhouse!! A madhouse!! No, not really.
10%Does no one else find a guy kissing an ape disturbing?!
10%What a stupid, stupid movie
40%Really good!!
40%Good, not great....
4A new movie that should be called the next generation
40%"Planet of the Apes" 2000
21%Good Special Effects. Terible Acting.
31%More than a remake
31%Suspension of Disbelief
11%A matter of the wrong director with the wrong script
2instantly forgettable
3Tim Burton Has Done Much Better efore.
4Entertaining, but the ending makes no sense.
20%Atrocious Hollywood Sci-Fi, Deus Ex Machina, Bad Movie
20%Huge disappointment
21%Rent this movie if you must - buy something else
21%Not the Original.
31%The Original is still King
40%Better than the original
30%Disappointing
40%Can't live up to the original, but still a pretty good flick
11%This was a very bad movie
10%Very Funny
11%Marky Mark and the Monkey Bunch
21%Some Imagination, But Leave A Classic Alone!
11%Grunt. Groan. Ugh.
11%Terrible
31%Twisty plot, but dragged down significantly by bad dialogue
30%Far better than the old movie
31%Brought to you by the creator of "Lost in Space"
11%Charleton Heston ... Where Are You Now? And Bring the NRA!
10%Lame and Stupid
11%Why God? Why?
21%For Burton fans only
10%Not If You Paid Me, Tim........
41%Yikes!
41%Not Apeing the Original
31%Not one of Tim Burton's best efforts!!!
30%So many missing elements
21%Poor update
11%This movie made a monkey out of me
21%OK but not what it could have been
41%Fun re-imagining.
30%Planet of the Apes DVD
21%BURTON serves up a nice looking DUD!
11%Horrible, horrible, horrible!
31%Planet of the Apes?
2Boring Monkeys
11%One of the WORST I have ever had the Discomfort of Seeing
4Exciting film
4A Great Movie with an Interesting Twist
20%So disappointing!
11%A total waste - stick with the original
40%Better than I heard it was
2Burton's visuals the only raison d'etre
11%TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS!!
3Good, but could have been better.
31%Will always exist in the shadow of the first, better, movie
2The jungle VIP (Vocal Ineloquence Preferable)
4Highly entertaining sci-fi remake.
1Why, and wherefore?
50%Apeville.......................
40%A New Version. NOT a Remake!
50%Loved it!
11%Awful. Not even the cool make-up saves this film.
21%Very Disappointed
3Good but not gerat
21%Apes for dummies
11%how did this monkey flick get like this?
50%Best Ape film in months!
41%IF SIMIANS RULED THE WORLD...
50%Slanted review as I am a POTA fan from way back
21%well, the original's still a classic....
50%Exciting Thrill Ride
11%DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!
2Apes lose their bananas
41%Where's Serling when you really need him?
10%Friends don't let friends watch this garbage.
20%A films that nearly drowns.
11%it sucks
31%Pretty much what I expected...
11%Waste of plastic.
40%It's no remake
11%Sad....
11%Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes is garbage.
21%Watch the original instead
40%Wow
3Can Someone Explain The Ending To Me?????
11%get your ... dirty hands off this tape
10%hugely disappointing
2Rediculous!
21%A visual treat with a shell of a plot and characters
41%REMAKE OR RE-IMAGINED?
11%Very Stupid!
11%Not the worst movie ever made
21%Monkey Business
40%a decent summer action thriller
51%Good Movie (3 Stars) But Rocking DVD
11%All Hype, Nothing good about this movie
41%It's Planet of the Apes, but it's not
21%ON OF THE WORST MOVIES I EVER SEEN
40%Cheesy script, great direction and production design...
3Good... but not as good as the original
31%Planet Of The Apes Revisited
30%Could have been much more
40%Planet of the Apes - DVD ~ Mark Wahlberg
4A completely new movie instead of a re-make.
10%Horrible Movie!!!!
31%Ho hum.
20%No more re-makes!
31%Average movie, but not without its moments.
11%Very Lame
11%An incredible waste of time and money - negative 5 stars
1I smell a sequel.
5Clever well done film, based on the Orignal novel.
4Good variation of the original
2Aperaham Lincoln
11%Tim Burton caved!
1Not worth the time
2Great special effects... NO CLOSURE!!!
31%A wasted effort.
3Planet of the Apes new but not improved....
5Among the best this year!
21%If you have seen the original, then this is simply bad
21%Snarling, Biting, and Burton...
30%YEAH, WIERD! (ENDING SPOILER)!
3Average and anti-climatic
4Judge on its own merit.
11%Monkey don't see; monkey don't do.
11%Not quite a waste of time
4Not a remake of the original but a totally different story
50%I Loved everything
40%Not a remake of the original but a totally different story
4Enjoy it for the updated version
40%planet of the apes
10%Very Poor Characters
21%Nice looking garbage
11%A BAD, BAD FILM
21%Evolutionarily Inferior
31%Avoid preconceptions
50%APE SHALL NEVER KILL APE!
40%Great Departure....
50%New, but classic!
50%Very cool!
11%Amazingly Bad.
31%Abomination doesn't come to mind but...
21%Not as much story, as special effects
3Planet of the Apes? Again?
2No more monkey business!!
41%A welcome new approach: a deserving 4 stars.
41%Ending makes you think...but, the clues are there.
40%A true DVD movie experience
4Good movie, Good DVD, Bad critics... Why?
41%Outstanding blast of suspense, action and science fiction
40%Apes a winner!
31%FAR FROM LIBERTY BEACH
40%Bottom line, a good movie despite common opinion
50%4 for the movie, 5 for the DVD
31%POTA SPORTS BAD SCREENPLAY
1Now you can get why this movie (...) in 5 easy steps!
21%Disappointing
11%Good features, Stinky movie
40%The View From Here.
2dismal remake
40%Whats all the Whining about?
4"Bow your heads!"
5excellent movie!
4Tim Burton's most mainstream film
5Fun movie(la traducción esta buena tambien)
11%Rent the New one..Then go BUY the Classic with Heston
2MAJOR disappointment...
50%I love TIME TRAVEL !!!
21%The old movies are much better!
2Not good but watchable
11%Great potential...Big Failure
1Leaves a bad taste
50%Terrific!
40%WOWSERS!
30%Better then the original...
11%I SO WANTED or Dirk Diggler to sing...BUT...alas!
11%FELT LIKE AN APE AFTER WATCHING IT....
11%TERRIBLE movie with cool makeup/costumes.
5Not Just For Tim Burton Fans!
11%Awful
50%I'm Still Stunned
4The Special FX alone are worth watching!
41%Planet of the Apes
11%worst movie of the year
50%the best damn monkey movie
10%A horrible movie! Has some great bonus stuff on it though.
51%Criticisms of this film are Unfounded
40%It's Not The Original, But Who Cares?
51%Entertainment as it should be...
31%Boring.
11%So Far Below the Original, its Laughable
50%Why is this movie so criticiszed???
51%The best DVD I've seen in ages
11%sickening
11%Remake that did not to be done! Unworthy remake! lame story
50%Phenomenal Movie!
10%NEW FORMULA DIDN'T HELP COCA-COLA EITHER!
11%Brainless
11%The absolute worst
51%Boldly going against the grain by saying this is fantastic
20%"I hate every ape I see / From chimpan-A to chimpan-Z"
21%One of the worst science fiction films ever
50%When apes rule the world, mankind better watch out!
3'Re-Imagining' Talking Monkeys for Good or Ill
40%A recommended family film
2makeup guy needs to find new director, let's start again!!!!
5Good Stuff
21%"Get your hands off me, you damn dirty ape!"
40%A solid re-imagining of a classic
21%i'm saddened
31%Not quite what you expect from the previews...
51%Style over substance, sure, but good style and lots of it
31%Not As Good As Original
51%Best sci-fi action film in recent memory
40%Escellent! It does have a cliffhanger ending though.
11%I doubt you'll want to see this remake...let alone buy it
31%A Missed Opportunity
51%28 hours of extra footage
41%A Visual Feast!: Burton's Revisiting of a Legend.
31%'PLANET OF THE APES' missed the jungle gym...
51%Plznet Of The Apes
31%Huh???
40%Only fails the original by a notch!
31%Mildly disappointing
31%Half of the Original Epic
40%Can we spell E N T E R T A I N M E N T ?
11%TIM BURTON SOLD OUT !!!!
51%stunning re-adaptation of a classic sci-fi movie
51%More than it seems - as usual
41%This is closer to the original ending
3Not Terrible
41%I just don't get it.
2The Makeup is Amazing.
21%This Film Needs Redubbing
41%I read the book a looooong time ago!
40%entertaining and well written story!
11%Horrible "re-imagineering"
21%A typically intelligent Tim Burton film.
31%One shouldn't "monkey around" with a classic!
4Great graphics,Great acting, but confuseing
21%This is a horrible movie.
41%Tim Burton adds his own twist
4Good Movie, But Too Short to Be REALLY Good
2So-So
40%Fun if you don't try to take it serously
50%gotta see it!
31%An Extraordinary Miss
21%Contrived, annoying, unintelligent.
21%Planet of the Apes - A flacid Remake
3Why did he do that?
51%boneheaded summer fun
40%Worth the Price and time spent. Delivers as to be expected
3It's OK.
3the supposed to be MOVIE
20%Entertaining - Nothing else
4Pretty good movie
11%Mark's the Man
50%RAW POWER!
11%A REAL disappointment!
51%Excellent!
5Great, for people who haven't seen orig.
10%Nothing Special Here
31%Not the same planet, but still....
4Very Good
3Much better than expected.
31%Visually stunning, but lacking in any connection.
50%Why all the bad reviews???
21%Makeup and effects do not a movie make
41%Flawed, but remains an entertaining summer action flick.
3it's entertainment
5I Went Apes
4Boring
11%trailer more exciting than the movie
3Great offering but Lacklustre Ending
41%A real impovement on the original
10%The biggest disappointment
11%NO APE atite
3Ending ruined the whole thing
31%Half and half: excellent make-up, fair acting, poor script
51%Pretty Darn Apeing Good!
41%Not bad
11%Sigh.............
10%There are good moives...and then there is Planet of The Apes
51%See if For yourself
21%Well at least the apes were good
3Have Never seen the original
4Good movie, but not as good as the original.
31%Could have and Should have been better.
41%The Dreamlife of Tim Burton
40%Heston Gets It Right
50%a grate action movie
11%Never Send A Boy To Do A Man's Job
51%Even better than the Original...
30%Don't watch these monkey's do it!
30%BATMAN OF THE APES!!!
10%Excellent makeup, superficial, stupid story...
20%Bore the planet!
31%the ending sucks
20%All form, no substance!
11%NOT GOOD.
20%Ape Lincoln
30%Sometimes You Have To Ask Yourself A Question...
20%That was It?!?!?
41%Good Entertainment
4More entertaining than a certain dinosaur-sequel...
51%it's a mirror.
51%Fascinating parts were not explored deeply enough - Sequel?
3Not like the first one, but not kissing you sister either
41%Don't listen to the bad hype
51%A Real Sci-Fi Story.
41%Perfect, with the exception of the ending
30%Great Visuals, Lame Script.
2It pains me to say this...
41%Entertaining, even if imperfect and over-hyped
41%Burton brings talking apes back to life
51%Great movie!
41%Customs are great
41%The Apes are Back!
41%COMIC BOOK FUN
5Tim Burton's version of Planet of the Apes rocks!
41%Lets talk about the ending
5I LOVED IT & AM READY TO SEE IT AGAIN !!
41%A Re-Visioning with some added kick
20%NOT Tim Burton's Best Work!
10%Flee this trash
51%i really liked it
41%a great "re-imagining"
4Burton vissssssionnnnn or remake of apes
11%This movie sucks - no joke
30%A big budget couldn't save this one from failure
2Thumbs up for the visuals, down for all else.
21%Planet of the Dull
30%Confused
21%Highly Disappointed
4Return to the Planet of the Apes
5Apes Rule
4Ape Power
10%boring and stupid..thank god for eye candy
21%Brainless Chase Scenes
4More fun than a barrel of�
4TIM BURTON'S "APES" IS MAGNIFICIENT!
3They Really Finally Did It.....
5A masterful retelling of a story....
41%"Planet of the Apes" Is Good But Not Great
4Great watch for a weekend
5Planet of The Apes
3A cultic movie
40%I loved this movie!
2Flying Apes??!???!
2What in the world???
40%Planet of the Apes
4captivating
4Planet of the Apes
4"Is there a Soul in There?"...
4Good movie, but not great
2OK movie, but "reimaging" leaves alot to be desired.
21%Too much hype too little delivery!
5You've Got to See It!!!
4Visually Stunning, Yet Downright Irritating in Parts
1Not a good movie
4Wonderful Ape actors
3Be Prepared To Lower Your Expectations
3disappointment
4Nice twist on a classic sci-fi social commentary.
5Best Planet of the Apes ever!
5An excellent film in it's own right
1TIM BUTON HAS GONE CRAZY
5"Get Your dirty hands off me, you DAMN DIRTY HUMAN!!!"
5Damn dirty humans!!
1Skip this movie and rent the original
11%Over-acting makes a monkey of you and me
2...[Darn ]them ,...[ darn ]them all...!!!!
3Watch the original and rent this one
4Go apes!
3Three bananas for good apes and a C-grade script
5Planet of the Apes
4Good movie could have been better
1The script was written by apes!
21%Kids' stuff
2Lost Opportunity
50%Apes Rule!
1Its a dud
2Ending Shatters Good Flick
5The Best Ape Movie Yet!!
11%Lost Planet
4Awesome Apes
4Much better than expected
2Big Disappointment
2Great Apes, Mediocre Humans.
2Stinks to high heaven.
3Serviceable summer action movie, all style but no substance.
4Hard hitting
4A fun, yet some-what disapointing remake
40%Blah, Blah, Blah
4DO NOT COMPARE IT TO THE ORIGINAL
11%No No No
11%33 Years Since The Original
11%Ape Lincoln - you'll get it later
3Serious Art, No!, Great Sci-Fi: Yes!!!
20%Good film, really lousy ending.
20%Good Points, But Too Many Bad Ones To Save It
20%Ending invalidated the movie
11%HORRIBLE!!!
21%Does Not Live Up to the Hype
30%Planet of the Apes - Balance begets insanity...
50%Yeah.. the apes are back!
10%Poor
41%Damn them, damn then all
3A Tim Burton Film?
5Planet of the Apes 2001
5A MONKEY JUNKY
50%the simian guide to human movie fans
41%Very memorable summer blockbuster of 2001
5The Best Movie I've Seen This Summer
11%What Were They Thinking?
40%Top notch production! Thinking man's ending?
11%Planet of the Apes
50%"Hi-Tech" Apes
5General Thane Steals the Show
50%Scarier, smarter, and better!
21%Not like the Planet of Apes 1968
4I loved it, ...
31%Sorry, but we were rooting for the apes...
5Apes Go Ape! Loved it. Action Packed!
10%P.O.A.= Piece of Absolute Crap
11%Apes is utter disaster
41%Nice Ending
41%See it for the Apes
40%There's no comparison between the two films
50%Planet of the Apes as it should have been done in 67.
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