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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
The new Planet of the Apes is not a remake, and it's not a sequel. It is an amazing display of imagination.
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80
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
Forget the heavy stuff. This monkey shines.
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75
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
There's one reason to see Tim Burton's flawed, somewhat declawed but often amusing do-over of Planet of the Apes. The apes. What else?
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63
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Burton's made a film that's respectful to the original, and respectable in itself, but that's not enough. Ten years from now, it will be the 1968 version that people are still renting.
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58
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Are there surprises? A couple of big money ones, notably the ludicrous would-be jaw-dropper of a finale.
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50
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
With the exception of a battle scene with apes on all fours charging the humans, the film is monumentally silly.
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40
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
When Mr. Burton's "Planet" fixes on being entertaining...it succeeds. But the picture states its social points so bluntly that it becomes slow-witted and condescending; it treats the audience as pets.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Outside of a hyper-energetic, irresistibly evil portrayal by Tim Roth as General Thade, the baddest ape in town, the sad truth about Planet of the Apes is that, disappointingly, it's just not very much fun to watch.
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40
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
The longer I take to review this movie, the more the absurdities loom. So let me finish before I think about the story's stupidly plotted structure or recall how tiring it was to watch apes perpetually pushing humans to the ground or sending them pirouetting into the air.
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10
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
My Homo sapiens brain was boggled by the movie's clumsiness, while my heart was chilled by the chance that otherwise mature members of my species might mistake this disjointed botch for summer entertainment.
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