This is a DVD review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
The DVD packaging for Rise of the Planet of the Apes may by light on the extras, but the extras that are there, make up for it with the quality of the content.
Obviously when you get a DVD in my hands, I’m watching the movie again, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes starring James Franco and Andy Serkis, and directed by Rupert Wyatt, is incredibly rewatchable. (Is that even a word?) And watching it again I started noticing more Easter Eggs within the movie than the first time at the theater.
Caesar playing with the top half of a toy of the Statue of Liberty; The launching of the Icarus to Mars, and getting lost in space; The names of the apes and such; A quick blurb of a scene on a TV in the background with Charlton Heston in it. And what not.
Also, coming into this movie a second time, though he blew me away the first time, I could concentrate more on what Andy Serkis delivered in his motion-captured performance of Caesar. And it doesn’t disappoint.
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