Rise of the Planet of the Apes Review

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Release Date: 4th August 2011 - Australia

Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Chermin Entertainment
Dune Entertainment
Big Screen Productions
Ingenious Film Partners

Distribution
20th Century Fox Australia

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 105 minutes


Budget: $93,000,000

Box Office Gross: $481,800,873 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary
A scientist named Will Rodman is on the verge of a medical breakthrough when experimenting with a drug he hopes will cure his father's Alzheimer's disease. Will becomes a guardian to an infant chimp named Caesar, exposed in utero to Will's drug. However, as Caesar's intelligence and emotions increase, he comes to challenge man's dominance over Earth, and thus the ape uprising begins.

Cast

The Humans
James Franco - Will Rodman
Freida Pinto - Caroline Aranha
John Lithgow - Charles Rodman
Brian Cox - John Landon
Tom Felton - Dodge Landon
David Oyelowo - Steven Jacobs
Tyler Labine - Robert Franklin
Jamie Harris - Rodney - Shelter Assistant
Ty Olsson - Chief John Hamil
David Hewlett - Hunsiker
Joey Roche - Todd Hunsiker
Madison Bell - Alice Hunsiker
Makena Joy - Alice Hunsiker (Teen)
Jesse Reid - Donnie Thompson
Chelah Horsdal - Irena - Charles's Nurse
Mattie Hawkinson - Linda - Lab Tech

The Apes
Andy Serkis - Caesar

Karin Konoval - Maurice

Terry Notary - Rocket/Bright

Eyes

Richard Ridings - Buck

Christopher Gordon - Koba
Devyn Dalton - Cornelia

Crew

Director - Rupert Wyatt
Based on the Novel "La Planète des Singes" -

Pierre Boulle (Uncredited)
Writers/Producers - Rick Jaffa

and Amanda Silver

Script Supervisors - Jessica Clothier

and Andrea Devaux
Executive Producer/Unit Production Manager -
Thomas M. Hammel
Producers - Peter Chermin and
Dylan Clark
Co-Producers - Mike Larocca and

Kurt Williams

Casting Director - Debra Zane
Production Designer - Claude Paré

Character Designers: The Aaron Sims Company -

Ceco Georgiev, Kazu Hiro, Diego Maia,

Alexander Mandradjiev, Jerad Marantz,

Steffen Reichstadt and Aaron Sims
Supervising Art Director - Helen Jarvis

Art Directors - Dan Hermansen

and Grant Van Der Slagt
Set Decorator - Elizabeth Wilcox
Costume Designer - Renee April

Head Hair Stylist - Sherry Linder-Gygli

Makeup Effects: WCT Productions -

Bill Terezakis

Director of Photography - Andrew Lesnie

Aerial Director of Photography: San Francisco/

Director of Photography: Golden Gate Unit -

Larry Blanford

Second Assistant Camera: Golden Gate Unit -

Gary Hawes

First Assistant Director: Second Unit -

James Bitonti

Second Unit Director - Brian Smrz

Second Unit Director/Director of Photography:

Second Unit - Mark Vargo

Stunt Coordinator/Movement Choreographer

(Uncredited) - Terry Notary
Stunt Coordinator - Mike Mitchell

Aerial Coordinator: Golden Gate Unit - Frédéric North
Special Effects Coordinator - Tony Lazarowich
Senior Visual Effects Supervisor - Joe Letteri
Visual Effects Supervisor - Dan Lemmon
Visual Effects Supervisors: Weta Digital -

Erik Winquist and R. Christopher White

Visual Effects Producer: Weta Digital - Cyndi Ochs

Executive Producer: Weta Digital - Eileen Moran

Digital Effects Supervisors: Weta Digital -

Thelvin Cabezas, Jeff Capogreco,

Mike Perry and Thrain Shadbolt

Animation Supervisors: Weta Digital -

Daniel Barrett and Eric Reynolds

Motion Capture Supervisor: Weta Digital -

Dejan Momcilovic

Digital Creatures Supervisor: Weta Digital -
Simon Clutterbuck

Creatures Supervisor: Weta Digital - Matthew Muntean

Textures Supervisor: Weta Digital - Gino Acevedo

Massive Supervisor: Weta Digital - Jon Allitt

Film Editors - Conrad Buff V and
Mark Goldblatt

Supervising Sound Editor - John A. Larsen

Supervising Sound Editor and Sound

Designer/Additional Re-Recording Mixer -

Chuck Michael

Re-Recording Mixers - Ron Bartlett

and Doug Hemphill

Additional Re-Recording Mixer - James Bolt

Foley Walkers - Alicia Stevenson and

Dawn Fintor
Music - Patrick Doyle

Score Recordist - Alan Meyerson

Review
An exciting prequel/reboot of the franchise, RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, delivers a story that moviegoers will appreciate and long live to remember. It's been a long time since we've seen a Planet of the Apes movie since Tim Burton's 2001 remake, and now they finally brought back the world where apes are the inheritors and oppressors. Not only does this film contain many scenes of full-throttle action, but it has motion capture technology. It conveys the portrayal of the crazy apes resulting from the experimentation undertaken by Caesar.

Andy Serkis was the perfect actor to take on the role of the Simian leader. He had done the same way he did with Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Remarkably, what Serkis does to Caesar is true to what apes do in their movements and expressions. It is also a career-defining choice for Tom Felton as he moves from being Draco in the recently ended Harry Potter series as one of the humans into the first and new movie of Planet of the Apes.

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES was good, but it's a fantastic movie and is left open for a sequel that keeps them waiting in the future. This film is a must-see for Apes fans.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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