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August 5, 2011

‘Apes' is big, wild summer fun

By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic

Silly humans. We're so arrogant. We see a cute, cuddly baby chimp, assign all kinds of familiar characteristics to it and raise it with the loving playfulness we'd give our own children, only to find that the creature's unpredictable and ferocious animal nature wins out in the end.

If the documentary “Project Nim” didn't serve as enough of a warning for us earlier this summer, now we have the blockbuster “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” which is sort of a prequel and sort of a sequel and sort of a reboot. Mainly, it's a spectacle. Except for a couple of cute nods to the 1968 Charlton Heston original, “Rise” pretty much functions as its own stand-alone entity.


 
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