But then, inBatman, he revealed something darker and more melodramatic.
Now, coming offBatman’s incredible success, he has made his most heartfelt film yet."
goad the young inventor (and the unstable Sparky 2.0) into danger.
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Burton stages the destruction of the world as lyrically surreal spectacle.
It’s an impossible assignment, really, carried off with more-than-respectable panache."
She makes her character’s awakening a quietly aching roar of empowerment.
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Despite its sharp feminist sting,Big Eyesnever loses its light touch.
Too much of the story, though, hinges on familiar omens.
This is a movie that thinks we’ll be creeped out by pentagrams.
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Had Disney finally come around to Burton’s skewed way of seeing the world?
Or would he be forced to sand off the more blackened edges of his style to finally fit in?
Sadly, it looks like the latter.
Firooz Zahedi
‘Planet of the Apes’ (2001)
Grade:C+
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It looks like a CGI head trip gone postapocalyptic.
In the film’s rather humdrum 3-D, the place doesn’t dazzleit droops."
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Peter Mountain
Leah Gallo
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Guy Ferrandis
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Jay Maidment
Sam Emerson
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