Cast: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto
I have never been into the Planet of the Apes films and this is the only one I have seen still to this date (I should really rectify that probably!). It was the brilliant trailer that made me think it may not be a bad one to see and then I saw an interview with Andy Serkis re the WETA technology and I thought it looked awesome and that sold it to me. The film was highly enjoyable and (even though as stated I haven't seen the other films) I still got most of the in jokes such as Caesar painting a model of the Statue of Liberty (I am a film geek after all!).
Scientists are trying to perfect a cure for Alzheimer's and use ape's as test subjects, when one experiment goes badly wrong the program is shut down but one of the scientists, Will Rodman (James Franco) rescues a baby chimp (Andy Serkis) and raises him at home, Will uses Ceasar to help his dad (John Lithgow) who does have the disease but keeps the secret. When Ceasar is older, he attacks a neighbor, if only to defend someone he loves and gets taken to a secure facility where his super intelligence allows him to rise above the evil staff at the facility. This leads onto far more dangerous things.
Scientists are trying to perfect a cure for Alzheimer's and use ape's as test subjects, when one experiment goes badly wrong the program is shut down but one of the scientists, Will Rodman (James Franco) rescues a baby chimp (Andy Serkis) and raises him at home, Will uses Ceasar to help his dad (John Lithgow) who does have the disease but keeps the secret. When Ceasar is older, he attacks a neighbor, if only to defend someone he loves and gets taken to a secure facility where his super intelligence allows him to rise above the evil staff at the facility. This leads onto far more dangerous things.
The reason this film is in my top 10 is that I was never bored and really felt for poor Caesar, it was a proper Summer blockbusting film and changed my opinion of the Ape franchise. Plus (and I know I wasn't the only one) I liked calling it RotPotA, just rolls off the tongue :)
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