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...Burton - this phrase was repeated easily twenty times in the space of the hour - apparently has "a unique vision...
...looking movie, from the setting to the shots of the apes loping into battle to, well, to Estella Warren and her highly evolved hairdo. That was to be expected from the director of "Scissorhands," "Batman," the even better-looking "Batman Returns," and "Sleepy Hollow." And I?m happy for Burton, whose cachet as one of Hollywood?s bankable directors has been in the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately category since "Mars Attacks," (which I actually liked, but no one else did) - the movie opened to the tune of $69 million, the largest non-holiday opening in history...
...after two viewings and a week to think about them, I am ready to declare Burton?s "reimagining" of the 1968 classic a disappointment, at least...
...Franklin J. Schaffner?s original. The planet on which Mark Wahlberg crashes is dark, moody and marshy - in fact, it?s alarmingly similar to the one in "Empire Strikes Back," in which men are ruled by wrinkled green Jedi instructors - and that?s OK. Dark and moody is Burton?s thing, and he does it well; take what...
...Burton?s "reimagining" did score one outright coup. The insight that apes, if they did indeed take over a planet, would still behave very much like apes - and even more so when angry or otherwise aroused - was a clear improvement on Schaffner?s stiffly human-aping overlords. Led by Tim Roth?s manic and maniacal (if slightly hammy) turn as General Thade and Helena Bonham Carter's incredible suffusing of her liberal-princess chimp with a warm and sexy glow, the hairy actors rule this movie. And of course Burton?s choice of Rick Baker as makeup man made...