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...Davidson, meanwhile, is just on a long hitch doing monkey research for the Air Force. He?s vaguely rebellious in a Keanu Reaves kind of way, complaining about monkeys doing mens? jobs (a nod to "The Right Stuff") and zipping off in his space pod to save his favorite chimp, Pericles. But he couldn?t be less interested in the implied philosophical musings that come with the movie - and distinguished it from the mass of movies before or since - and on screen they suffer from lack of nourishment. (Wahlberg does manage a few good lines about how nutty this planet...
...responsible for the new POTA?s blueprint had to have a different ape start the simian civilization, apparently just so the little fella could return for a truly ludicrous deux-ex-machina moment in the middle of the grand battle for planetary control - and so Davidson can borrow the pod and still get back home to wifey in time for dinner with the Feldmans. And the fact that home isn?t what he remembered is the kind of out-of-left-field "surprise" ending that gets mystery writers beat up at Ellery Queen conventions...
...Science fiction is about turning things on their head and playing out the consequences, not merely screaming and running back home. When Pericles shows up, giving Davidson a choice between staying with a half-dressed Estella Warren and flying the Yugo-sized space pod into a mysterious electromagnetic storm with unknowable consequences, Davidson doesn?t even consider sticking around. In fact, the whole movie he?s practically checking his watch - what, is a planet ruled by talking apes not interesting enough...
...spacecraft is a 3-ft. metal pod with eight 35-ft. metallic wings. Mylar petals sprout from it--though the prototype used in the April launch will have just two petals. Mounted atop a reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosmos 1 will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute or so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-down on Russian soil cushioned by air bags...
...AQUATIC POD SUITE Semisubmersible cabana with king-size bed, minibar, shower and deck $91,100 at Hammacher Schlemmer...