As someone with only a passing knowledge of the original movie(s)- mostly thanks to that Simpsons episode- this came as a complete surprise. It speeds along almost as though it's showing you highlights, and yet you don't feel like you're missing anything.
Andy Serkis achieves CGI gold yet again as protagonist chimp Caesar, acting everybody off the screen. The camerawork, visual effects, and shots of San Francisco are breathtaking.
The only let-down is the human cast. Their characters never achieve even one dimension; James Franco is back to Oscar-host dreadful, Frieda Pinto just gets to look beautiful (though succeeds supremely), Tom "Draco Malfoy" Felton is quite successfully typecast as a sneering bully, but his American accent is painful.
You might think you have seen everything in the trailer, but they've kept the biggest revelation a secret. The cinema audience's reaction alone was worth the ticket price.
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