10 Fan Service Movie Moments That Went TOO FAR

Dialogue callbacks to vastly better films in a franchise have a tendency to come off as awkwardly shoehorned, and there are few examples more wince-inducing than in Tim Burton's 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes.

In the 1968 Charlton Heston-starring version, Heston's protagonist George Taylor famously shouts at an ape, "Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!," much to the apes' collective shock.

And Burton couldn't resist but offer a flipped version of the scene in his remake, when fierce gorilla Colonel Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan) tells human hero Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg), "Take your stinking hands off me, you damn dirty human!"

Much as the late, great Michael Clarke Duncan tries to imbue the line with the requisite menace, this feels less like a cute remix of the original line than a listless repurposing of it. 

It sounds inherently clumsy and only exacerbates the feeling that we're watching an ersatz facsimile of a true masterpiece.

Say what you will about the remake's infamous ending - and we've all said a lot about it over the years - but at least it was trying something totally different.