Rise of the Planet of the Apes Review

Today, December 13th, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has released Rise of the Planet of the Apes onto Blu-ray and DVD!  We were given a copy of this great movie to review and I'm excited to tell you about it!  This movie had me glued from the beginning when a baby chimp is taken home with a scientist to save the chimp from being destroyed.  This chimp is later named Caesar and becomes a pet and family member to the scientist and his father.  Caesar has been exposed to some experimental drugs that make him very intelligent!  When Caesar tries to protect one of his humans, he is thrown into a primate facility and has to learn to live with his own kind.  As his intelligence grows, he outsmarts his human captors and frees all of the apes and actually learns to speak.  This is a very action packed movie and it was a movie that you just have to see what happens next!  There was no falling asleep during this movie, which I have been known to do!  It seemed so real to me and I was rooting for the apes and the humans at the same time.  I've never seen any of the previous "Planet of the Apes" movies, but after watching this one, I just might!

Movie Summary:

Summary: A single act of both compassion and arrogance leads to a battle unlike any other when RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES makes its worldwide debut on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on December 13th in North America and starting December 7th Internationally.  From the Oscar-winning® visual effects team that brought to life the worlds of Avatar and Lord of the Rings comes revolutionary new ground - a CGI ape that delivers a dramatic performance of unprecedented emotion and intelligence, and epic battles on which rest the upended destinies of man and primate.

James Franco (127 Hours) stars as Will Rodman, a neuroscientist living in San Francisco trying to develop a cure for Alzheimer’s disease by testing on chimpanzees, giving them a human level of intelligence.  After a test subject’s baby, Caesar, is orphaned, Will decides to raise him at home on his own with his Alzheimer-stricken father (John Lithgow; “Dexter”).  What begins simply as a continuation of his experiment quickly turns into a problem for Will, as Caesar is taken away from him and forced to live in a primate facility.  As Caesar’s intelligence continues to grow, he begins to stake his claim as the leader of his new primate counterparts, which will ultimately lead to the RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES.

Directed by Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist), this special effects blockbuster features fantastic supporting performances from Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), Brian Cox (Red), Tom Felton (Harry Potter films) and Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) in a ground-breaking performance.  The RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Blu-ray is loaded with bonus material including deleted scenes, making-of featurettes commentaries and more.

**Exact product configurations will vary by individual territories**

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Blu-ray
+ Digital Copy (North America)

• Feature Film
• Deleted Scenes
• Alpha Gets Shot
• Will’s Meeting with Lab Assistants
• Will Discovers Caesar Has Solved Puzzles
• Caesar Plays with Bicycle
• Caesar Questions His Identity
• Caesar Bites Off Neighbors Finger
• Will Ignores the Risks of an Airborne Mutated Virus
• Rodney Gives Caesar a Cookie
• Rocket Gets Hosed by Dodge
• Caesar Destroys the Lab and Koba’s Attempted Revenge on Jacobs
• Caesar Pushes Helicopter
• Koba with Shotgun
• Pre-vis for The Future
• Capturing Caesar – Script to Screen
• Studying the Genius of Andy Serkis
• Multi-Angle: Rocket Cookie Scene
• A New Generation of Apes
• Breaking Motion Capture Boundaries
• Breaking New Sound Barriers: The Music and Sound Design of Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Ape Facts
• Chimpanzee
• Gorilla
• Orangutan
• Audio Commentary by Director Rupert Wyatt
• Audio Commentary by Writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
• Character Concept Art Gallery
• Three Theatrical Trailer
  
  
  
  
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