3/4  Planet of the Apes Quick Review
One of the greatest endings in sci-fi, if not films in general. The costumes looks pretty dated today, but it's still not that bad. It will keep you engrossed throughout, even if it looks somewhat cheesy.

3.5/4  Planet of the Apes Quick Review
The concept of this movie is very original, and the sets and costumes at the time where state of the art. The script is good and the acting is on par. Its only downfall is the age of the movie. The sets are now dated and the actor?s masks are drivel. Still, for any true sci fi fan, see this one over the remake (white it is somewhat entertaining too).

4/4  Planet of the Apes Quick Review
A raw look at society that only this movie pulls off while keeping you entertained from beginning to end. The remake is good too.

4/5 It's about Blacks over powering Whites and ruling.
  by Mary (New Zealand)
When I watched this movie, to me, the real hidden meaning behind of it, was shown in the ending. This is apparently different from the original.

At the end, you learn that the apes (black people) had been brought into the society of the humans (white people) to help out,(slaves).

But the apes (black people) gain in strength and numbers and over power the human (white civilization) and take it over.

This then turns the tables on the humans (whites) who are reduced to hiding in the bushes and being used as slaves.

This has happened many many times in the past. The Ancient White Cloud People of South America is one example.

They were wiped out and killed by the Aztecs and the paintings of this are on the temple walls and the Spanish were told, it was not their civilization first but one they stole from an original white race and they had killed them all.

Mummies of those dead whites, have also been found, so the proof that this happened, is irrefutable.

5/5 Entertaining
  by Egalitarian (California, USA)
This film is simply good entertainment, it is interesting, and the acting enjoyable, definately superior to the originals, however, the character interaction is not as well choreographed as the some of the originals were. This movie is worth watching for those afectionados that new the originals.

3/5 planet of the apes (remake)
  by Olin H. Walters Jr.
I like the way the apes and ape city were done. the story line could have gone on a little bit longer. the main reason i got the dvd was because of the apes. now if i just figure out how to get heston in the dvd it will be a great movie. even without him it was a good movie.

3/5 Pass the Bananas
  by D. Mikels (Skunk Holler)
Here's a remake that is often silly, the ending is so far over the top it has skid marks, and Mark Wahlberg goes through every single scene with the same constipated grimace, yet I still had fun watching Tim Burton's version of PLANET OF THE APES. A little technology since the 1968 original goes a long way, including some dynamic special effects, and ape makeup that looks astonishingly real. (How does Helena Bonham Carter in full ape attire actually look good? I dunno.) Plus Burton lets his apes monkey around; they're actually jumping and screeching and doing stuff with their feet--not to mention some intimate grooming.

I don't know enough about the original story to know (or care) which version pays more homage; what I do know is if you can get past all the silliness (and the urge to hose down a greasy Kris Kristofferson) you will enjoy some actors mucking it up as apes, including a wickedly funny Paul Giamatti and a hulking Michael Clarke Duncan. Tim Roth plays the villain ape in primate evil fashion, while there's even a cameo by the great Charlton Heston himself, in, irony of ironies, ape makeup. No, PLANET OF THE APES will never make my Ten Best, yet Tim Burton's tongue-in-cheek tribute to the original is still pretty darn fun.
--D. Mikels, Author, The Reckoning

3/5 Revised Planet of the Apes falls short of original
  by Edmonson (Canada)
I enjoyed aspects of this movie. Tim Burton's moody visuals, and in particular his punctuation of the darks with red accents is stunning. But the parody of human types is often overstated and would have been more effective if downplayed. It's as if at times the movie has been reduced to a tv sitcom. The lack of character development keeps this movie from being more engaging than it could have been.

The ending was disappointing as we get an alternate reality that is unbelievable. If Mark Wahlberg had accidentally gone further into the future instead of into his past then this ending could have made some sense. The ending seems like an afterthought that comes across as cartoony (an ape statue that parallels the Lincoln Memorial). It certainly doesn't match the awe and anguish that we have at the end of the first Planet of the Apes film where we see what remains of the Statue of Liberty and the realization of the tragedy that that implied about the outcome for the human race.

As a footnote there's an interesting appearance earlier in the film by Charlton Heston (portrayed in makeup as an ape) as he resites one of his famous lines from the original movie.