Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes New Trailers - 8 Things We Learned

7. The Apes Are Learning And Speaking

One of the greatest and most memorable moments of Rise of the Planet of the Apes was when Caesar first spoke, yelling, "NO!" to a petulant and abusive human teen. We knew that his intelligence and self-awareness had improved with the experimental drugs James Franco's character had given him, but the ability to speak was a huge leap in his evolution. Picking up eight years in the future, Caesar can speak a bit better and appears to be teaching the other apes how to read and write. We see the orangutan from the first film in front of a school of chimpanzees with writing on the walls, and Caesar speaks several times to both the humans and his ape compatriots. Luckily, Reeves has kept the story grounded and realistic, in the sense that apes aren't speaking fluently and acting human-like just yet. That means this movie won't feature a bunch of scenes with animals talking to each other, which from an audience standpoint would be a bit too unrealistic to connect to. This slow-burn approach to the apes' evolution is far more interesting. Caesar speaks in slow spurts, as if he's really concentrating on what to say and how to say it, leading to the most memorable line from the new trailers: "Apes. Together. Strong!"