Read Common Sense Media's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review, age rating, and parents guide. The messages in the movie focus on trust, diplomacy, and peacekeeping. Caesar wants to protect the apes, but he also refuses to see all humans as evil torturers.

The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and [Andy Serkis] has become the Roddy McDowall of Planet of the Apes franchise, delivering the emotion and heart that makes Caesar come. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes will surely entertain. As the sequel to the last instalment, we follow Caesar in his new habitat following the human pandemic instigated by the Simian influenza.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

In a world where the human population is depleted and infrastructure collapsed. The mostly excellent "Dawn" expands and complicates Ceasar's story by showing the aftermath of revolution, when the romance of rebellion has faded and boring old reality. In the wake of the flu epidemic, two tribes of foragers now occupy the Bay Area. Above, in Muir Woods, are the apes, led by Caesar. Below, in the wreck of downtown San Francisco, a ragtag band of human survivors have no electricity and are running out of fuel. Neither group has contact with the.

Trailer Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Andy Serkis as Caesar in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'. The sequel trades Rise director Rupert Wyatt for Cloverfield There are moments in the movie of brilliant visual shorthand and iconographic imagery; awesome visual and Head over to our Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Spoiler Discussion. The reintroduction of man into the world of apes begins with bloodshed, a violent misunderstanding that draws a clear line in the sand between "us" and While the humans of Dawn aren't as drawn out as the apes, there are some standouts.

Clarke as Malcolm is especially notable; his ice-blue gaze. A gripping account of interspecies conflict, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes manages to do at least three things exceptionally well that are hard enough to pull off individually: Maintain a simmering level of tension without letup for two hours, seriously improve on a very good first entry in a franchise and. The tribe of apes on the move through the northern California forest (WETA). The technical triumph is just as dazzling.