Having recently bought the box set of all the old Planet of the apes movies i couldn't believe how they had dated and how bad ( apart from the 1st) these films really were. Tim Burton tries to address this a few years ago by doing a remake but let's face it - It's Tim Burton , so it didn't quite work .

Rise of The Planet of The Apes is the first of the movies that uses CGI instead of men in suits and because of that , this is probably the best POTA film that has been made to date.

I wasn't too sure when i started watching this film if the CGI was really good enough. The scenes of the young Caesar are a little bit Pixar but you soon get used to it .

The story is a simple one , not unlike the original and is easy to follow . The acting is OK and even the usual wooden Freida Pinto manages to get her lines out OK.

There are some criticisms though. This is a little sugar coated at times. It would have been better if audience were more in side of the apes maybe by showing how they were experimented and i wasn't too sure about the final scenes of The Golden Gate Bridge .

This film is fun without being a masterpiece and unsurprisingly it's all set up for a sequel which i look forward to seeing.