Why The Worst Planet of the Apes Is Smarter Than You Think 

I actually never understood the ending until seeing your explanation. It actually makes the movie 10x better

The chimp crawling into his cage while injured broke my heart in two.

I never understood why people hated this movie or didn't like it. The movie is supposed to be crazy and weird, the costumes and story are different from any other movie and very creative and cool. Reminds me Dark Crystal, very dark and adventurous. It's a weird concept so why can't it be a *WEIRD MOVIE??!!* I liked it when I first saw it.

The ending is actually almost the same as the ending in the original book. The astronaut gets back to Earth and finds out apes rule there also. Just uses DC instead of Paris.

I always assumed the ending meant that the apes were doomed to repeat the mistakes of man no matter what, but your take does clean up a few loose ends.

I never understood the bad reputation and hate this movie gets. It has so much qualities that I can easily ignore the negatives which are, in fact, very few. I saw it in the theaters and immediately liked it.

Everyone remembers the twist ending of the 1968 original along with Cesar saying No. What a lot of fans of The Planet of the Apes franchise is the jaw dropping moment in the 2001 film "General Thade" outstretching his arm and pointing the gun at Leo. Granted it lacks the impact of the "Cesar No" moment but just think of a moment. Thade just by sniffing and studying the gun for a single moment figures out how to hold it and use it...oh and the look of total shock and horror on Leo's face is priceless

OMG!!! Finally someone gave a proper explanation of the ending. I always loved the movie but never fully understood the end. You just made my day!

I really liked Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes! That intro score was hair raising, the acting was on point, and the ape armor was so detailed

I remember hearing that Burton filmed 5 different endings for this film - one being the original film’s ending, and no one knew which he would use. To my knowledge, those endings have never been released, but I’d love to see them.

I have my own opinion about this movie. When I watched it as a child, it amazed me. I have always hoped for a sequel to be made. It is unfortunate that Tim and the production team did not receive the recognition they deserved. The movie was made with great attention to detail and passion. It would be great if they could connect the existing storyline with the newer films and the 2001 Apes movie. On a different note, the scene where Mark Wahlberg's character returns to space through the rift always gives me chills. The music perfectly complements the moment. I find it haunting and satisfying. The ending is one of the best and leaves you wanting more.

Thank you. This movie is so underrated, and undeservedly so. It was a marvel and still is today. The craft and dedication in the ape society and cosplay alone are quite possibly unmatched.

"What you hold in your hand is the proof of their power. Their power of invention! Their power of technology! Against this, our strength means nothing! This has the power of a thousand spears! I warn you their ingenuity goes hand in hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious, as violent." - Zaius He's not exactly wrong.

The ending should've at least had a sequel.

You bring up so many points I've believed for years. Tim Roth did such a great job. He was terrifying! The intensity of his eyes and voice were scary.

general Thade single handedly made this entire movie. He was so deep in nature and character and I fully understand his motives and fears. I think Tim Roth was astounding in the film. It was way better than what Mark Whalberg could lead in my opinion. The ending was so fitting and I felt made it even more clear that there wasnt a right and wrong or good Vs evil in the film. Different perspectives with one driven by fear and the other driven by empathy.

Finally someone thinking like me. I liked this film a lot and never understood why it is so hated. It was my first DVD and even the first movie I bought, and that even without knowing the film beforehand! The makeup, the characters, the costumes, the twist, the tributes to the old films, it was really good!

The film could've taken the book's ending even further with its prologue and epilogue; two ape astronauts find the Mark Wahlberg character's account of the film's story and dismiss it as fiction because, to them, human intelligence doesn't exist.

People didnt get the ending because it was ahead of the multiverse fad

I enjoyed this film when it came out but I was also only 19 at the time, I was always confused about that ending but the way you explained how the interplanetary travel thru worm holes worked actually makes so much sense, Thank you

I one hundred percent agree this a great movie that deserves to be better rated

“No remake of a classic will ever be as well received as the original.” So we just gonna dish on John Carpenter’s “The Thing” huh?

I'm a big fan of Tim Burton and have always found something to love about all his movies. I actually loved his Planet of the Apes (and love how you explained Caeser going back further in Earth's timeline so it fully makes sense!) because of Helena Bonham Carter's performance. This was the movie that absolutely made me love her and track her career. I agree, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes wasn't perfect, but it wasn't terrible. What's terrible is that the story wasn't continued

General can not escape the spaceship since it is only able to work with finger prints of humans

I finally get a decent explaining for this movie's ending. Great job!

So the idea that drives the plot of this film pretty much went over all the audiences and critics heads

Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow falls into his “Lazy Period”????? Hell no!!!!

This movie was extremely underrated. Indeed, Charleston Heston's final role, to me was his best ever!

TAKE YOUR HANDS OF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY HUMAN! just stop movie just stop!

I love this movie. yep, I said it. It was my first dvd.

You helped me with working out the end of this movie. It was the only part, I couldn’t wrap my head around, but that graphic you showed really helped with your explanation on your idea.

Was always waiting for the part 2 that was never made

I actually liked it cuz it felt like an old-school sci-fi novel.

After watching this film recently, I came to the opinion that Planet of the Apes (2001) is not only a very underrated film but a very misunderstood film as well. The ending, in my opinion, is one of the most memorable twists of modern films. Thade traveling through a wormhole altering the past that Leo wasn't aware of can often be compared to Back to the Future Part II where Biff gives himself the sports almanac and altering the future (1985) in 1955 while Marty & Doc were still in 2015 and not aware of yet until they travel back to the altered 1985 that would technically be the past of 2015 that slowly altered when Biff returned.

the problem with this theory is simple: when the pod got inside the wormhole, the on-board computer started displaying the date and the years went very fast forward. when the lost pod went back into the wormhole, the years went backwards.

This Explanation is even WEIRDER than the Ending itself ! I love it !! 😀

yeah well that's just like.....your opinion man

Ok, the whole "wormhole alternate timeline" thing confused the hell out of me.

Thanks for the wormhole diagram, explaining the ending - you explained what I had always been wondering about !

It’s not too late for a sequel.

The ending is pretty close to the original book ending

“It subverts the audience’s expectations.” Where have I heard that before?

The ending deserves a sequel, what happened after he got arrested?

You're actually pretty spot on with the ending. There was another pod on the ship that Thane figures out how to fly and goes through the wormhole.

My issue with the remake is that it tries to be smarter than the original with those moments, but then has bizarre dancing scenes and rips off the original, undoing all it's good work..

5000 thousand years later we have screen crush lmfao

Never understood how Burton didn’t make this into a series. It was my favorite of all the Apes films

I LOVED TIM BURTON'S VERSION OF PLANET OF THE APES

I own the film on DVD, along with the original Apes films, and enjoy watching it from time to time, but I see at least four logic issues with the ending (and none of them have anything to do with the wormhole reversing the order of entry/exit; I get all that). 1) The idea that Thade, or anyone under his command, could repair Wahlberg's damaged pod and successfully launch it into space is a serious stretch. Admittedly, something similar occurred in Escape From the Planet of the Apes, but it wasn't very plausible in that film, and it isn't in Burton's film either. 2) Even if Thade did use the pod to travel to Earth's past, how was he able to take over the planet (or the US, at least) on his own? Thade was tough, superhuman even, but I can't see him subjugating all of humanity, or even just the US (even the early, Lincoln-era US), by himself. 3) How were there so many intelligent apes in the US by 2029, and not just chimps but gorillas as well? Did Thade breed with terrestrial apes? I wouldn't have thought there'd be many of those in the early US, even if he wanted to do that. And I wouldn't have thought he could produce a viable population of intelligent apes by impregnating a small number of terrestrial, female apes. Especially enough to populate a whole city by 2029. 4) Why does this alternate version of 21st century Washington DC look so similar to that of the real world, from the architecture, to the technology, to the professions on display, such as cops and firefighters? If Thade subjugated humanity (or at least the US population) some time around the 19th century, or prior to that, it doesn't seem very likely that the development of society and technology would have followed such a similar path, except with apes taking the place of humans. We could solve the second and third problems by speculating that Thade didn't travel to Earth alone, but was somehow able to bring an army with him, and perhaps some females to breed with too. However, the idea that a society as technologically primitive as Thade's could repair a single, damaged pod and successfully launch it into space is already a stretch. The idea that they built a large number of additional pods, then planned and carried out a large scale invasion, including bringing females along to breed with, strains credibility to breaking point. As a side note, the presence of horses on the apes' planet seems to be a plot hole in and of itself. All the apes and humans on that planet were descended from the space station that travelled through the wormhole and crashed there hundreds or thousands of years in the past. So did that space station have horses on it as well? If so, why? And if not, were these alien horses that evolved on that planet independent of terrestrial horses?

6:42 - BLEW MY MIND AND MADE ME LOVE THE MOVIE!!

I’m glad you attempted to explain the controversial ending Helena Bonham Carter defended it for years while Tim Roth watched it twice and still couldn’t figure it out

Thank you for explaining the ending. That does make it a lot smarter. What a shame we didn't get a sequel.

Take THAT, Nostalgia Critic!

This movie's ending was probably the first negative film going experience I had in my life (I was only 11 at the time) and honestly your explanation made even less sense than the actual ending

The prosthetics for this movie are still incredible even by today’s standard

Thane uses Wahlberg's ship. He kills the only two apes who know where the ship is. Then Giamati's character takes all of the technical documents from the chimp's ship after it lands. Thane uses those docs to learn how to operate Wahlberg's ship. Your reverse time travel theory is spot on - though not obvious to most on a first view.

I loved this movie, just watched it. I was very confused with the ending so i decided to look it up. I was like: "Wait, he was thousands of years in the past on a different planet, how did that alter earths history?" But it makes sense now that you explained the wormhole. I absolutely love this film, really don't get all the hate it gets.

I saw this movie in the theater, absolutely loved it, and was completely shocked at how much everyone else - (including the people I went to the movie with) hated it! This was great to hear😃

Came back and watched it after binging as a family dawn, rise, war, and POTA (2001). I love your explanations, it's nice to see how you've evolved your content over the years. Also watched your most recent one of KOTPOTA review which makes me want to watch it even more though I still haven't taken my family out to watch it yet.

General Thade was totally awesome. I loved the ending with Thade sitting in the Lincoln memorial. This movie was ten stars.

I thought I was the only person on the planet who actually liked it. I thought the ending was great!

Never understood that the humans stopped existing on earth. I just thought it was an alternate dimension at the end.

Who tf said this was the worst planet of the apes movie., you have obviously never seen some of the originals 🤦🏽‍♂️

A lot of people seem to forget that some of the iconic films remade by Tim Burton were based on BOOKS. Some of them, such as Planet Of The Apes (1968) and Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, deviated quite a bit from their source material, so Tim tried to remake them to be as book-accurate as possible, only making changes when they were necessary.

5:57 nice dad joke. No literally my dad made that joke the first time we watched this.

THANK YOU! As it does reflect the ending of the original book, this reboot in ways includes reworked elements of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" also. And I LOVE your explanation of the wormhole effect. Let's not overlook Danny Elfman's great unsettling music. It's not easy to rival Jerry Goldsmith's original incredible score.

I always liked this movie for trying to do something different with a popular movie series, the sets and practical fx were amazing, as were many of the ape perfomances, in particular Tim Roth as Thade. While I never read the book attached to Burton's movie, the one thing that threw me was, if Davidson (Walberg) goes through a wormhole to a different planet then comes back to earth's future now ruled by apes with our technology, how does Thade become the apes Abraham Lincoln when he hated humans and how did he even get to earth?? If a different ape had been shown, a future Ceaser perhaps, then that works fine, but Thade being there only adds to the confusion that should have been a perfect twist.

@7:29 The original ending of the Planet of the Apes film was "shocking" becuase you learn the fate of Earth (and Mandkind) through Taylor finding an icon symbol. And in the beginning of the film Tayor is explaing to the other crew member that over 2000 years has passed. What is home (earth) after that much time has passed? And I don't think many people criticized the production value of the remake/reboot/re-imagining. My biggest issue with the movie was that all the primitive humans could speck English. It did make Wahlberg character standout from anyone else (other than he did not want to be a slave). There is also some interesting and dark about the original film that's missing from this one. That Dr. Zaius knew about humans and there destruction they caused. That they have the ability to destroy all life within them. That he would capture and labotomize any and every human that showed intelligence. And to keep man from evolving.

Never understood the hate for this film. I saw the originals and loved them. Loved this too.

My favorite Planet Of The Apes. George Clooney would be more believable as a Charleton Heston-type of Air Force NASA captain. But MW is not terribly bad, he's believable. Anybody but Nicholas Cage.

Without a sequel people were left with the question how did Thade change the past.

Who is out here saying that this is the “WORST” Planet of the Apes movie??? 🤔 This movie is AMAZING!

Because so many people involved in creating a movie, even if a movie has issues I never take it for granted that it is bad, instead I try to focus on what was good in it: Maybe the acting, music, story, FX, etc - This way I've found greatness in a lot of movies that others found them terrible and also found more interests in movies. Sad that most film critics do not do the same.

I loved the movie when I saw it, but I was a kid. I haven't watched it as an adult. But I remember being very entertained.

Space-Time: That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. It was a cool ending, but the explanation is...no...it just isn't, ok? Wow.

Two things about this movie that should be pointed out: Paul Giamatti’s character clearly takes something from the pod before Marky Mark uses it to return to Earth. Also Thade’s gun changes during the end sequence when he disappears into the smoke; it’s been assumed by many this is a continuity error. It isn’t.

Are you sure you explaind the time travel at the end correctly ?

I Never got that ending before you just explained it. Thank you!!

I actually just watched this movie for the first time and was so confused by the ending. Thankyou for the explanation of how the wormhole works (the further in the future you leave, the further back in the past you arrive thing) this wasn't explained in the movie at all and made the ending incredibly confusing. I was thinking if he goes back through the wormhole, he gets back to his ship meaning they never go looking for him, never crash land, the whole plot never happened... then it hits with the aperaham lincoln thing and I was just like dubya tee eff mate.

The costumes and faces are better than the current Ape films IMO.

APES.TOGETHER.STRONG HUMANS.ALONE.WEAK Koba: Caesar weak. Caesar: Koba weaker.

It really is a very good movie. The plot is tight, the special effects/costumes are excellent, and Mark Wahlberg does a great job as the lead. I remember being very excited to see it in the theater when it was originally released, and I really liked it a lot. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Read the novel in high school, back in the early 80s. Loved the original movies, but knew of the budget constraints. The ending for this would have worked better had Burton actually followed the novel a little more. In it, the apes were advanced to the point of flying in space, thus with the humans shown going through a warp, it could be implied that some apes did the same and ended up in earths distant past.

This movie was cool as a kid the only thing I hate is that we never got a follow up to the ending

A very good movie. The look and the atmosphere are perfect. My favorite cinematography of all Burtons movies. I’m just really surprised they didn’t lay down a few more bucks for a better lead actor tho. If they had, this would have been a small masterpiece. Still, I would have gladly accepted him if we would have gotten a trilogy or even one sequel.

I agree , I think the 2001 remake was pretty, good. In spite of Matk Wahlberg.

Somehow Thade is responsible in the ending but how did he do it?

Still doesnt make Quite much sense. The modern ape earth saw thade as their savior. So thade must somehow have found some kind of spacecraft and gotten mixed up in the vortex and ended up on far past earth. After that he messed up history so apes ended up on top. I think This movie deserved a sequel ngl😭 poor Leo What the heck happened to him after that. In the sequel We could have seen him travel back in time to stop thade

I liked the movie before the ending, I just felt it out of place, because everything was fixed at that time, I just felt it as something from nowhere to create shock value (... and also, that explanation presented in this video is not explained on the movie, the hero would have arrived also very early in the past, and the villain even earlier, both before the Lincoln monument even existed).

2:05 "armor inspired by ancient egipcian warrior's" has no similarities besides helmet and bracelets(by a stretch)

Tim Roths performance was one of the best villain performances in a movie ever. Up there with Heath Ledger as Joker

I saw this in the theater and LOVED it! I still do. Is it perfect, no, but I love the re imagining. I watcher ll of the Ape movies frequently, including this one. To bad we never got a sequel.

I never got why this film garnered so much hate. Haters will always hate. That's the only thing they seem to do!

This was actually my favorite one after the original one

The most memorable thing about seeing the remake was that, when shopping for smuggle-in refreshments, all the convenience stores were selling Mad Dog, not just in the usual orange and grape options, but also in banana flavor. Like the movie, it wasn't all bad, but a little goes a long way and I haven't sought it out since.

It's 2023 and I just picked up the 2 disk special edition DVD. Thanks screen crush for helping to reinforce my last purchase decision 😅

I freaking loved this movie! The makeup, the acting, the music, everything! The ending actually scared me, I'm not going to lie, because it does pose a frightening scenario.

I must admit, that I could not get past "trump"'s town hall in front of Abe Lincoln's memorial.

I actually love this take on the Planet of the Apes saga....your explanation of the ending makes sense.

6 Years later, and seeing how far ScreenCrush has come is beautiful