Argh. There was a time when Tim Burton had a flair for the visually interesting. Remember Gotham City? Sleepy Hollow? The Afterlife waiting room in "Beetlejuice"? Not anymore. Here he had a chance to re-create a whole planet and my response was a huge yawn. The movie's not all that good either. It's not sure what it wants to be at times - a run-of-the-mill action flick (With cliched dialogue); a remake of the original; even an English bedroom farce (when Marky Mark & Friends escape they HAVE to run through the bedrooms of each important ape in the city, apparently). It also criminally mis-uses Michael Clarke Duncan and Tim Roth. In the end, the whole thing ends like an episode of "Sliders".
Review of Planet of the Apes
