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Cute Overload: James Franco And A Tiny Baby Primate In The New <em>Apes</em> Trailer
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Jen Carlson
Published Jun 3, 2011
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Why can't this just be a movie about James Franco and his cute baby pet ape?
Do you want to hear James Franco declare with a modicum of concern: "He doesn't spend any time with other chimps"? Yeah you do. Check out the latest trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, in which Franco plays a scientist who gives a miracle drug, called the Cure, to a chimp named Ceasar—and what could possibly go wrong with that! Certainly a super-intelligent "infection" spreading amongst every last living primate will only result in something innocent, like a human-ape chess tournament, right? Or not:
Looks like it's got all the makings of a summer blockbuster (it hits the big screen August 5th), but thumbs down for the rebooted version being in San Francisco and not New York.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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