tl;dr not worth watching for itself but is fine background noise for when you are doing something else
Not that the franchise was ever better than "not unwatchable" but this one came out just below that threshold.
A multi century time jump after the last one, peaceful ape tribe is doing peaceful ape stuff when they get bumrushed by warlike ape tribe and conscripted into being their helots. The main hero ape from peaceful tribe has to find a way to free them.
I'm probably not the right audience but chimpanzee politics doesn't exactly get my blood flowing. The CG was impressive but the CG is impressive everywhere nowadays. There was the obligatory human/ape interaction where they had to, yet again, point out how humans are the really uncivilized and the apes are better.
It is 2.5 hours and a slog and I watched it over 4 days, mostly in the background while scrolling twitter or eating lunch.
No obvious wokeness beyond mild anti-humanism which is almost obligatory. I thought the woman human character was exhibiting mary-sueness until it is sort-of explained how she is so knowledgeable.
The best thing it has going for it is CG eagles are cool.
I appreciate how they're still making these despite how difficult it must be to tiptoe around accidentally pissing off the woke crowd who are trying to claim they're offended by these films.
This will become more and more noticeable as time goes on, as an example that bothered me a lot the normies praise the Dune reboot. I'm somebody who read the original book and watched the original movie. Just looking at some of the clips it reminded me of the witcher series so much where it was clearly designed by somebody who didn't give two shits about the universe or the lore and as a result everything looked generic as hell.
Even with Star Wars, lets be real, the only vaguely iconic thing they seem desperate to include are lightsabers, star destroyers and stormtroopers as well as a few other must have starship designs. You could put most of their costume design and general 3D work in any other sci-fi show and you'd barely be able to notice the difference which I believe is very on purpose and why modern titles are so damn boring.
I disagree about what is iconic about Star Wars. Luke, Leia, Han are the most iconic images from Star Wars. Following them in a second tier would be Chewie, Artoo, Vader, Yoda, Obi-Wan.
The objects that exist is SW are indeed part of the zeitgeist and even normies know what a lightsaber and the Death Star are. But even more know Luke's father and "Use the force"
You misunderstand. He's saying that Lightsabers are the only thing Disney thinks is iconic.
Kingdom isn't as strong as it's first trilogy was, however it's still a good movie. The story is pretty generic while setting up the larger world of this trilogy.
I think the actors are great in it. The motion capture technology is great and the actors' faces really come through in their performances.
Proximus, is pretty much King Louie, looking to gain power using human ideas and technology. He's not the best antagonist but he is also probably more of a low level boss.
The movie does have a strong element of human and apes not being able to peacefully co-exist because each would want to be dominant. But it also shows each is united in their thirst for knowledge and the wonderment of the universe.
I liked the movie. I really enjoyed the rebooted trilogy. I would agree it's a bit long and has a decided deliberate pace.
At least the furries didn't manage to get an interspecies sex scene inserted.
I was bracing myself for it the whole time. The ultimate interracial relationship.
Avoid the pota subreddit the folks there have already created a love triangle with two chimps and the girl
Thanks. Saw the first one of the new series but I’m behind. Love the original series and actually found the book it’s based on but haven’t read it yet
I'm so tired of this grrlboss trope, even if they write reasons for it
I don't know how she was close to a Mary Sue. She only survives because apes help her. She's not universally loved and her mistakes cost lives. Her actions in the movie are portrayed as selfish and dangerous and she lies to Noa.
She isn't a Mary Sue or a girl boss.
Return to femonke
Having monkeys be the main characters with the only humans being “decrepit white man trying to hold onto privilege” and “sassy girlboss”, plus the runtime and just general paint by numbers approach to the movie left me feeling like it was worse than just a slog.
But I needed to watch something kid friendly (I know, I know, realistically kids should be watching violent westerns from the 50s, because atleast the mental harm isn’t so severe from there and they still had moral messages, but everyone gets what I mean, atleast there were no gay monkeys as far as I could tell)