(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The nicest surprise is how the husband-wife writing team of Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver keeps the movie's genre motor running while creating a plangent parable of parenthood. Scientist Will Rodman (James Franco, back in the land of the living after his spectral appearance as Oscar co-host) has been using apes as test subjects in developing the drug ALZ-112, which he believes may cure Alzheimer's. The disease gnaws at Will's gut: his father Charles (John Lithgow) suffers from it. Will has also adopted Caesar, orphaned when his genetically enhanced mother was killed after running wild at Will's lab; so he is nurturing both his impaired father and the chimp. As Charles disintegrates mentally, Caesar makes prodigious strides; in a lovely scene at the dinner table, Caesar notices that Charles is holding his fork the wrong way and gently reaches over to correct its position.

Caesar is a little, bright youngster, both chimp and child. One long, graceful tracking shot shows him in Will's kitchen, swinging on an overhead lamp to reach a cookie jar on a high shelf, then scampering to the hallway, leaping and pulling the cord to the attic trapdoor and vaulting upstairs. His five-year passage from youth to maturity is revealed in another dazzling sequence: on a stroll through Muir Woods, Will unleashes Caesar, and the chimp scampers up a redwood, climbing ever higher in a series of subtle dissolves until, reaching the top of the highest tree and staring across the bay at San Francisco, he is fully grown.



And i'd highly reccomend this film for people to watch as it has a brilliant story line.

Out of 10 star's i'd rate this film 9/10 so go ahead and watch The Rise Of The Planet Apes

I thought it was a great film, was worried it would let the original down but was presented well. Franco is a decent actor aswell IMO.

Definitely a very underrated movie I think...Wasn't as good as the original!

I am planning to watch <The Rise Of The Planet Apes> at 10.28