An average movie

Recently, every evening, Nick, my step-son, asked me when we will watch the Planet of Apes again. He is pretty hooked and, especially this time, I was sharing his enthusiasm. Indeed, at the end of the previous installment, Charlton Heston himself launched a doomsday bomb destroying Earth. Heston thought he managed to put an end to the sequels but the producers obviously outsmarted him. So, how did they do it? Time travel of course! Indeed, if Taylor and Brent managed to go in the future, why not send a few apes back in time? It was a pretty neat idea and something really different from the two previous installments even if you miss the whole Ape civilization that way. Unfortunately, the whole concept was not very well developed. Indeed, when the apes are welcomed in the 'old' Earth, we get a few scenes about them going shopping, to some parties, watching TV and even going to a boxing game because it is obviously what would most impact them. I thought it was really trivial and I didn't care much on this focus on consumerism. Furthermore, the whole theory developed by the bad buy didn't make much sense. Basically, something will happen in a very far future, changing the natural order but how killing those 2 and 1/2 apes would change anything? Finally, I thought the pace was pretty sluggish. Indeed, even though it is rather short, nothing much really happen. Still, I thought it was a decent SF feature, better than its predecessor, and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10