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FRIDAY JULY 27, 2001 4 CHICAGO TRIBUNE SECTION 7A It's a blessing that excessive animatronics or digitization weren't inflicted on this film. Most of the time, they aren't needed. Burton (and his team) imagines this simian-ruled world with the great goofy obsessive cartoonist's detail that is his hallmark, making a real Saturday afternoon special. This century's "Planet of the Apes" is a rouser, a screaming-banshee fun house. Carter, Roth and Giamatti stand out: Roth for his blood-freezing sadism and snarling hyper-energy, Giamatti for his memorably sleazy cowardice and con artistry, and Bonham Carter because she makes Ari such an unexpected charmer.

In movies like "Room With a View" and "Wings of the Dove," she was an unexpectedly passionate presence; here she gives chimp Ari grace, elegance and sex appeal. rrr 111,11 11 111 VT ZT al I if -V. it' yt -j- -if it -t 1 1 rft it rnii i rirrr r- -n But in other areas, especially visual ones, this new "Planet" is far superior. Burton is one of the few Hollywood directors who never lets a big budget overwhelm him, who keeps a sense of fun about his projects even when they're as commercially foredoomed as "Mars Attacks!" Though it cost a lot of money $100 million or so I didn't resent the expenditure the way I did the obvious waste in this summer's overdressed pinhead spectaculars like "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," non-stop digital shock-a-thons like "The Mummy Returns" or "Jurassic Park III" and exploding schmaltz monoliths like "Pearl Harbor." Burton's movies lift your spirits, and no one lifts them higher here than Bonham Carter. All the acting in "Planet" has that tongue-in-cheek zest that Burton can inspire.

But Bonham Mark Wahlberg (center) leads the humans in battle. social message isn't as clear. And the new surprise ending doesn't carry the same satisfying jolt of the first; in fact, it's so illogical and off the wall that it may turn some audiences off. Wi.il u-3---- 'Planet of the Apes' Vj Directed by Tim Burton; written by William Broyles Lawrence Kon-ner and Mark Rosenthal; photographed by Philipe Rousselot; edited by Chris Lebenzon; production designed by Rick Heinrichs; music by Danny Elfman; produced by Richard D. Zanuck.

A 20th Century Fox release; opens Friday. Running time: 1:50. MPAA rating: PG-13 (some sequences of actionviolence). Capt. Leo Davidson Mark Wahlberg Thade Tim Roth Ari Helena Bonham Carter Attar Michael Clarke Duncan Limbo Paul Giamatti Daena Estella Warren Karubi Kris Kristofferson Krull Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa APES: Visual effects superior CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Leo is stymied until he discovers liberal human-activist chimp Ari (Bonham Carter), who helps him escape with a few other human slaves (Kris Kris-tofferson as gnarly old Karubi and Estella Warren as his nubile daughter Daena) to join up with others.

The good guys include Ari's stalwart ex-soldier ape-servant Krull (Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa). And the bad guys are led by Roth's Thade, a maniac ape leader who lusts for Ari and hates humans, and Thade's massive gorilla sidekick, Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). There's also a character the amusingly double-dealing slave-seller Limbo (Paul Gia-matti) who was probably modeled on Peter Ustinov's Len-tulus in "Spartacus." Burton's "Planet of the Apes" had me smiling all the way through even at its deliberately perverse surprise ending and one of the things in it that's the most fun is the incredible care and effort lavished on the apes. Done with actors in sculpted body suits and masks designed by ape virtuoso Rick Baker, these primates are smashingly lifelike. They crouch, climb, yowl banshee screeches, swing upside down and make great ecstatic leaps all completely in character.

Unlike those delightful but comparatively stiff monkey-suits and masks in the '68 film, the expressive costumes and makeup here allow us to accept the characters as living apes. French writer Pierre Boulle wrote the 1963 novel on which both "Planets" are based, but the real authorial personality in the '68 film was Rod Serling, who gave it the dramatic irony, social commentary, noir comedyand surprise ending of a typical "Twilight Zone." That first "Planet" is antiwar, anti-nuclear arms and anti- JUl is the BEST FAIRY TALE. Refusing to cuddle us or lull us into easy sleep, Mr. Spielberg locates the unspoken moral of all our fairy tales. To be real is to be mortal; to be human is to THE NEW YORK nMES S.

"It's the first 2001 release I've rushed to see twice. There haven't been many this year, and we'll be lucky if we get another one this summer." -Mike Clark, USA TODAY fc "The year's most stunning film; a FANTASTIC FABLE grounded in the deepest human emotions." -Marshall Fine, GANNETT NEWS SERVICE "A.I, Artificial Intelligence' ranks as one of the year's MUST-SEE moies. It shines as an original wore of art." -Philip Wuntch, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS mmmmmmmmamm i nrutw enrrr ocnr mil WUMnnm A STEVEN SPIELBERG FILM II (M1 i 'f ft-1 4jWi AH 'ffrfi'TSM i i It I "T7 i 'i bigotry. The new one apes that political agenda, and it takes a lot of pokes at current establishment politics without the anti-nuclear message. (Indeed, this new film, in a way, is pro-armaments; they're Leo's equalizers.

Unlike the original, "Planet's" apes here have no rifles.) I watched the original "Planet of the Apes" the night before I saw the new one and, in many ways, I prefer Burton's. Not completely, though Wahlberg isn't as strong (or as volatile) a hero as Heston, nor is he as good as he was in "Boogie Nights" or "Three Kings." There's nothing to compare in the remake to the awesome mystery of director Franklin J. Schaffner's first trek through the seemingly abandoned, barren planet. The lint-urn UNE ZURICH 12 L00MIKGDALE CT IUnlilHllUMH-1111 CANTERA JO LINCOLNSHIRE 20 MmnllkHTflH-tMK UKtMW M71IHIK CINEMARK MARCUS CINEMA fMnnPHk7WUI-1l U4IM U4Vni-MU RANDHURST II m. rnmm H7I4WU IM RIVER OAKS 1-1 CKwl CIH 7W444-HUI HU ROUND UKE BEACH II mmt Uki Imk Wfmmi SH0WPUCE 11 CnttlUbllMK-IMI SOUTH IARRINGT0N ES0UIRE OltW11U444-rUIH IURXHAM PLAZA CMCH4 1444-7HM Nil CHATHAM 14 Caall2UflUIMa FORD CITY 14 44.l1!44HHIBt7 HYDE PARK CUtaHnym-MM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WARNER BROS.

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