Movie trailers gave movie goers low expectations for the film “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” at least for me it did.
Directed by Rupert Wyatt, the film had an interesting team that successfully created the special effects which brought this movie to life.
The Weta Digital crew, known for its work on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, and Andy Serkis, who played Gollum, created the effects that made “The Rise of the Planet of the Apes” seem so real.
Helicopter crashes and police chases are not typical for the life of most apes, which makes this movie seem a little ridiculous at moments, however, every moment coordinates well with the next.
The main star of the film was a chimpanzee named Caesar. All of the emotions in Caesar’s face were made possible by Serkis. From birth to fury in the later moments of the film, Serkis successfully portrayed human emotions into the chimpanzee.
Given these human characteristics, it’s easy for movie goers to feel bad for Caesar.
What makes Caesar’s not so typical life possible is all in his genes. Caesar was born where chimpanzees were being used to test a new medicine that is hoped to be the cure for Alzheimer’s in a biotech lab—Gen-Sys.
He is the only surviving chimp because all the other chimpanzees that were being tested on were put down.
Will Rodman (James Franco) is guilted into taking Caesar home when his friend, Robert Franklin (Tyler Labine), refuses to kill the infant ape after Rodman’s experiments to cure Alzheimer’s went horribly wrong upon its final approval meeting to conclude safety in human testing.
The serum Rodman injected into all of the apes during his quest to cure Alzheimer’s not only recovered memory loss but increased intelligence in the apes — as well as his father.
Rodman decided to start injecting the serum, ALZ 112, into his father after he noticed significant results in Caesar.
It was not permitted by the company Rodman worked for to treat any human with the serum, and it was a bold mark on his part to feel so confidently in the serum’s ability to trust its effects on his father.
At first, the serum worked well for his father, just as it had done for Caesar. Later on, the serum wore off on Rodman’s father, and he was worse off than he was to begin with.
When Rodman realized ALZ 112 was not ready for human use he went back to the company to inform them they needed to begin work on a new serum, which he called ALZ 113.
Caesar was sent to a clinic for chimpanzees and other apes for attacking Rodman’s neighbor. I find it a little strange that there was a pound for chimps.
While in the ‘ape pound,’ Caesar developed an army out of the other apes and helped the apes to escape.
The other apes were not intelligent enough to join forces with Caesar at first, so he snuck out of the ‘ape pound’ and stole the ALZ 113 Rodman had stored in his fridge. Caesar exposed all of the apes to ALZ 113 which made it possible for them to escape.
Rodman had taken Caesar to the Redwood Forrest when he was younger, and Caesar wanted the other apes to play freely as he had done on his special trips instead of being mistreated in cages.
The film is rated PG-13 and  is playing at the Cinemark Towne Centre in Conway.