But anyway, as a huge Tim Burton fan, I was looking forward to the "re-imagining" of Planet Of The Apes, as Tim Burton prefers to call it. And I have to say I really liked this movie. I'm not the most critical critic. I try and overlook flaws in movies if they aren't too major, and there's weren't any major flaws in this movie that bothered me. The story I think, was at times, better then the original. I loved how they tied our responsibility to the apes evolution in. I thought it was a great arc.

Sometimes it was a bit over the top, for example, the ship working after what, 1000 years? but it is technology from the future, so you can forgive it that.. The movie was well paced, and enjoyable. I didn't get the overall suessian feel that's usually so present in Tim Burton movies, but the personality of the characters certainly had his touch.

The ending felt a bit tagged on just for shock value like it had to be cause of the original, but it wasn't nearly as bad as the ending to A.I.

Actually the most annoying part of this DVD isn't actually the movie itself, but in the commentary for the ending, The ending is a little bit of a question mark, and he totally avoids trying to explain it just in case someone wants to make a sequel. which is just a little frustrating. (okay, allot!)

It's the same basic premise, but we see a bit more of the back-story. We find out whom the astronaut was working for, and a bit of why he ended up where he did. Though, the story does have on big difference, the Planet of the Apes itself is suggested to not be Earth. They never come out and say it isn't, but several of the space scenes that show the planet show it with very non-earth features, and they later show Earth, almost as if for comparisons sake.

The special effects were really well done. Many of the primates in the movie are quite believable; it's defiantly not the same old monkey suit. I thought they did a good job of having the primates' fall into their animalistic behavior whenever things got emotional. Some of it, however, felt cheesy, or forced.

The plot itself is all right. Some of it felt a bit forced to just help the story along, as in "Oh, this has nuclear power, it was meant to last forever", when describing why a space station still works thousands of years after it crash landed. I'll just call that the Battlefield Earth why of solving things. Ignoring that sort of junk, it was a pretty good plot that seemed to rely on character to resolve things, rather than technology.

The ending is what really got me, and prevents me from giving this movie a good rating. I won't spoil it, but suffice it to say, it makes no sense. There's just no resolution, and it raises too many questions. Hunting around on the Internet, I found a few suggestions to what it could have meant, but the fan suggestions all have somewhat large holes in them. Listening to the DVD commentary from Tim Burton, it's not much clearer. He just suggested, it's thought out, designed with enough hooks so someone could make a sequel, and in the movie for the punch factor. I didn't get the punch factor though, because the stupid thing just didn't make any sense.