I am a huge Tim Burton fan normally, but I think he did much better work when he commanded less mainstream attention. Planet of the Apes has the usual grim beauty of his work, with absolutely no decent writing whatsoever. "Sometimes a few can make a difference" - uttered without an iota of irony. God awful. Helena Bonham Carter did her best, as did the rest of the cast, although the usually likeable Mark Wahlberg was horribly miscast. And the pouty busty blonde babe really got on my nerves - what conceivable purpose did her character serve? She never once closed her mouth, and she looks like an inflatable sex doll. Was she cast only to draw teenage boys into the audience? Too many plot holes to count - looked as though a lot of explanatory scenes ended up on the cutting room floor. And gee whiz, do you think they'll make a sequel? Next time, I hope they spend some of their millions on one of those little luxuries known as a decent script.
Review of Planet of the Apes
