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...BURTON GOES FROM MARTIAN TO MERCHANT IVORY...
...helmed by director Pete Docter and executive director John Lasseter (the respective comedic visionary and honorary Oscar-winner behind both sensational Toy Stories) is a hilarious expose of boogeymen and other things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, animated with classic Disney style mixed with the best of Tim Burton. It’s Beauty and the Beast meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a quirky film that features first-class entertainment...
...original "Planet of the Apes" was sci-fi with a conscience and camp with a purpose - not to mention one of popular cinema?s great all-time conceits. (You know, with the apes and the men). It came with higher hopes, and those were the hopes that Burton dashed when he decided to apply his "unique vision" to the sets - but not the script...
...even in these politically correct times, when even dark heroes must be driven by some easy-to-understand childhood trauma and Tobey Maguire gets the lead in "Spiderman," there?s an interesting way to do this - think Michael Keaton in "Batman." Wahlberg?s (or Burton?s) Capt. Leo Davidson has (apparently) a lovely girlfriend who misses him, as well as the usual complement of cookie-cutter friends who send him a joshing taped message from some idyllic backyard barbecue back on Earth. Come home soon, buddy...
...still turn out for Time Burton?s next movie - he?s still one of the only big-time directors around who holds out the promise of something different. And like I said, it?s still a pretty good movie. But while the 1968 "Planet of the Apes" succeeded in spite of its shortcomings - mostly technical, some tonal - Burton seemed mostly interested in shoring up his predecessors? weak points rather than aiming for the stars with the movie?s inherent potential for intelligence and at least surface profundity. And the original "Planet of the Apes" was too, well, original to deserve...