Planet of the Apes: Critic Reviews

Splendidly envisioned and boldly executed.

A campy, juiced-up ker-splat, busy with clumsy pyrotechnics and never nearing the vicinity of satire.

Offers proof of Hollywood's simian instincts: Monkey see old hit, monkey do remake.

One more disappointment in a summer of lackluster 'event pictures.'

Call it a letdown, worsened by the forces of shoddy screenwriting.

Decent re-imagining of the classic.

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 confining

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.

It is like an elaborate card trick that has 30 steps but the deck was rigged so that the card you picked was obviously predetermined

...one of the most entertaining check-your-brain-at-the-door flicks in recent years.

Like Burton's Sleepy Hollow, another grim triumph of set design over story.

The apes of '68 may now appear more comical than scary but their 2001 descendants are truly terrifying.

Mark Wahlberg is no Chuck Heston, and Lady Liberty doesn't make an appearance.

It doesn't hold a candle to the original.

Planet of the Apes has talking monkees, yes, but it doesn't seem to have figured out a damn thing about human behavior, primate behavior or, most importantly, even what it wants to say.

Tim Burton's "reinvention" of '68 sci-fi classic boasts awesome makeup and design -- and awful writing.

Yes, the apes are very, very cool. The costumes, the sets, the makeup, the stunts, the music and the special effects: cool, cool, cool.

If you're as much of a sucker for apes as I am you're in for a treat, but if you're looking for compelling human characters and challenging subtext, you've got the wrong movie.

Doesn't have the solidity of theme of the 1968 movie. Also ... Burton's version seems to force an ending that is neither thoughtful nor effective.

only serves as evidence there are some bits of Seventies nostalgia that belong in the same closet with Whip Inflation Now buttons and the Swine Flu vaccine.

Signing Tim Burton as director was a textbook example of a great idea on page...

The only message the new Apes seemed to convey was that it ran out of things to say before it even started.

Sometimes, it doesn't help to write a review a few minutes after seeing a movie. Completely forgettable.

Los puristas diran que esta nueva version es una afrenta a la anterior; la unica verdad es que estamos delante de otra cinta. No existe ni puede existir la comparacion.

If only Burton cared as much about having real characters as he did about having real actors.