Nope…unfortunately not a documentary feature about Jennifer Saunders’s comedy partner’s job in a new and rather emphatically named monkey zoo, but a sequel to 2011’s surprisingly critic and consumer pleasing franchise reboot, Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
I think we can all agree on one thing…Rise of the Planet of the Apes was far better than any of us expected. Right? Happy? Good. No need for any discord here. It’s a friendly, happy blog where we all concur that our fears of another off-target reboot (ala Tim Burton’s) were compounded by a plot that provoked thoughts almost as effectively as the 1968 original, alongside some smart visual effects and Andy Serkis’s patented man being an animal/fictional werido from Middle Earth shtick/brilliance.
And yet, when creative differences goaded ROTPOTA’s director Rupert Wyatt away from the sequel, the angst returned. Luckily, Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves stepped up to the big budget plate and refused to drop the mixed metaphored ball. Continue reading
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