This must go down in history as one of the most pointless remakes in Hollywood history and lets face it, there's been a few.
This woeful remake, reimagining-what ever you want to call it, gets very few things right, most notably being the total miscasting of Mark Walberg as an astronaught-he is utterly out of his depth and unconvincing and appears to have been given the role simply to attract the teenage demographic.
Burton can't be blamed solely for this traversty of a movie, as he was mearly a Director for hire after several years of development hell and other Directors having passed on the project(most notably James Cameron).
Blame must surely be directed at the writers of this shambolic mess of a movie, who should be held up as examples on how to murder a classic. The most obvious example being to take ever ounce of intelligence, social/political allegory and wit that was present in the original book and subsequent 60's movie adaption and reduce it to the substance… more »

This must go down in history as one of the most pointless remakes in Hollywood history and lets face it, there's been a few.
This woeful remake, reimagining-what ever you want to call it, gets very few things right, most notably being the total miscasting of Mark Walberg as an astronaught-he is utterly out of his depth and unconvincing and appears to have been given the role simply to attract the teenage demographic.
Burton can't be blamed solely for this traversty of a movie, as he was mearly a Director for hire after several years of development hell and other Directors having passed on the project(most notably James Cameron).
Blame must surely be directed at the writers of this shambolic mess of a movie, who should be held up as examples on how to murder a classic. The most obvious example being to take ever ounce of intelligence, social/political allegory and wit that was present in the original book and subsequent 60's movie adaption and reduce it to the substance of a particularly moronic action movie. The film makers even fail to come up with anything even remotely close to the final iconic image from the original.
This is a film to avoid at all costs unless you are of a masochistic nature or you derive pleasure from watching a classic movie being mangled to death.
Do yourself a favour and pick up the totally in a different league original and pretend this version never happened!
It barely scrapes 1 star and that's just for the impressive make up and special effects.
And lets face it, any movie where a Chimpanzee acts the human star of the screen, you know you're in trouble.