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Monkey Mayhem Ensues in New 'Planet of the Apes' Movie
'The Rise of the Planet of the Apes' is the seventh in the series and the best since the original in 1968.
Chimps, gorillas and other primates take some mind-altering drugs and give a big hairy smackdown to the puny humans in this week's featured film, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
James Franco plays a scientist trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease, the same disease that has stricken his father (played by John Lithgow). After trouble with one of the test chimps, all of the chimps are put down -- all but one, a newborn chimp that Franco's character rescues and names Caesar.
Caesar grows up to be a very smart monkey - a little too smart. As a result, he is sent to a "primate shelter" or, as I call it, ape prison. Angered by his incarceration, Caesar uses his brain to rally the other apes. Eventually the apes break out and terrorize San Francisco.
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This is the seventh Planet of the Apes movie and the best by far since the 1968 original with Charlton Heston. In fact, this is the prequel to that movie. The great Andy Serkis, best known as Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" films, provides yet another wonderful performance-capture acting role as the CGI-ed Caesar. This is his movie.
Breaking it down, the ape uprising due to the evil prison guards seemed a bit cliche but the monkey mayhem afterwards was enjoyable. The flick-o-meter gives Rise of the Planet of the Apes four out of five. This prequel to the 1968 sci-fi classic explains exactly how Earth came to be overrun by apes while the human population died out. The film's central morals of human arrogance and corporate greed were a bit heavy-handed, but it wasn't a big enough monkey wrench to mess with the movie.
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Showtimes for "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" can be found in our South Cobb Patch at on East-West Connector in Austell. And there's plenty of opportunities to see it as the film is playing on three screens with daily afternoon and evening sceenings showtimes at noon and 12:25 p.m., 1:35 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 2:55 p.m., 5 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m., 10:05 p.m., 10:35 p.m.
Late night showtimes play after midnight, meaning the following day -- not the morning of your selected date at 12:40 a.m. and 1:05 a.m.
Dinner: Grab a South Cobb salad or a delecious, juicy fried chicken breast with your choice of sides at , right in front of the theater on East-West Connector, before the movie. Top it off with an almost-too-pretty-to-eat cupcake and you're set for the movie and a great night out on the town.
