Every Planet Of The Apes Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
7. Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes (2001)
Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes falls firmly into the 'not as bad as people say it is' category, but you can expect to be hated when you attempt to remake a classic.
Let's start with the positives - Rick Baker's makeup effects are phenomenal, just as convincing and impressive as the groundbreaking CGI found in the reboot trilogy.
Danny Elfman's drum-heavy score hits all the right notes, the cinematography is a spectacle and Tim Roth’s performance as the evil Thade is beyond unsettling.
Yet while the movie's apes were convincing, its human characters were anything but. Mark Wahlberg displays all the charisma of a crash test dummy and Estella Warren displays no ambition to be anything beyond eye candy wrapped in a loin cloth.
Burton saved his biggest balls-up for the end when he attempted to upstage the 1968 original by including a similar twist. Except nobody really cared by that point.