DVD Movie Rating for: Planet of the Apes

2 out of 5

Movie Plot of: Planet of the Apes

It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to its future.

DVD Production Details of: Planet of the Apes

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter

Director: Tim Burton

Format: Color

Studio: Fox Home Entertainme

DVD Release Date: February 4, 2003

DVD Easter Eggs

Easter Egg

Ape Commentary and more!


Access The Egg

On Disc 1- Select Special Features, then select Commentaries, then press the down arrow to highlight the "back" button, then press the "up" arrow to highlight a red monkey that is between the top of the swords. This will play a special "Ape" language commentary of the movie, but it fast forwards to only scenes of the ape in the spacesuit in the beginning of the movie.

On Disc 1- Select languages and then press the down arrow to highlight resume film, then press the right arrow to highlight a red apes helmet which will take you to the DVD credits.

While watching the movie, at the very end in the last scene where Wahlberg crash lands and is standing in front of the Thade memorial staring at it, you can access a short 'making of' clip for the sculpture.
I'm not too sure how to do it on a dvd player, but on computer you click on the statues hand in one shot where the hand is prominent on the right side of the screen. You could probably hit enter on the dvd remote for the same result.
After the clip is played you'll be returned to the movie where it left off and it will continue.

When you hit the PBC button on your remote then hit play you will be brought to the monkey taking over your remote then brought to the THX setup test.

Cast of the movie: Planet of the Apes

• Mark Wahlberg .... Captain Leo Davidson
• Tim Roth .... General Thade
• Helena Bonham Carter .... Ari
• Michael Clarke Duncan .... Colonel Attar
• Paul Giamatti .... Limbo
• Estella Warren .... Daena
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa .... Krull
• David Warner .... Senator Sandar
• Kris Kristofferson .... Karubi
• Erick Avari .... Tival
• Luke Eberl .... Birn
• Evan Dexter Parke .... Gunnar
• Glenn Shadix .... Senator Nado
• Freda Foh Shen .... Bon
• Chris Ellis .... Lt. General Karl

Photo Gallery of the movie: Planet of the Apes

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Reviews of the movie: Planet of the Apes

Billed as a "reimagining" of the original 1968 film, Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honorable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape makeup (hand that man an Oscar®!), and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design. Add to all this an intelligent screenplay that turns Boulle's speculative reversal--the dominance of apes over humans--into a provocative study of civil rights and civil war. The film finally goes too far with a woefully misguided ending that pays weak homage to the original, but everything preceding that misfire is astonishingly right.

While attempting the space-pod retrieval of a chimpanzee test pilot, Major Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) enters a magnetic storm that propels him into the distant future, where he crash-lands on the ape-ruled planet. Among the primitively civilized apes, treatment of enslaved humans is a divisive issue: senator's daughter Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) advocates equality while the ruthless General Thade (Tim Roth) promotes extermination. While Davidson ignites a human rebellion, this conflict is explored with admirable depth and emotion, and sharp dialogue allows Burton's exceptional cast to bring remarkable expressiveness to their embattled ape characters, most notably in the comic relief of orangutan slave trader Limbo (played to perfection by Paul Giamatti). Classic lines from the original film are cleverly reversed (including an unbilled cameo for Charlton Heston, in ape regalia as Thade's dying father), and while this tale of interspecies warfare leads to an ironic conclusion that's not altogether satisfying, it still bears the ripe fruit of a timeless what-if idea

Biggest cinematic disappointment of 2001!
I saw WORSE movies than 'Planet Of The Apes' in 2001, but I didn't expect any of them to be good anyway. This movie however should have been something special, but turned out not only to be the biggest disappointment of the year, but one of the biggest of the last decade.

Tim Burton has never made a movie this mediocre before! Even his most flawed movie (up til now) 'Mars Attacks!' was more interesting and entertaining than most of his contemporaries best efforts. Everything about this film is a mess. Not just the asinine script, but the direction is dull, the decent cast is wasted under the unimpressive make up, and the "surprise" ending a complete anti-climax. Avoid this one, it's absolutely awful!