there’s no lack of apes. There are dozens if not hundreds of them, chimps, gorilla, the occasional bonobo, played largely by human actors in motion capture suits, mounted on horseback or bounding on all fours across a far-future landscape closely resembling the bush of NSW, where thisYes, there are eucalypts in California as well, but Australian viewers won’t be fooled. Where the action is supposed to be taking place remains an enigma, compounded by the herd of zebras who wander by.
Like the setting, the hints of allegory are kept vague, which is just as well. Certainly, it would be appallingly offensive to equate the apes with any particular race or ethnic group . That leaves it up to us to decide what we make of the vocal performances, which hark back to old-school Hollywood stereotypes of “uncivilised” peoples: the ape manner of speech is formal yet halting, as if the English language didn’t fit easily in the characters’ mouths. Even the learned orangutan Raka shows signs of this tendency, for instance when he sees those zebras: “Horses with … stripes. Quite … striking.
But if the pleasure of watching animals in action is what you’re seeking, this largely computer-generated spectacle is no match for what’s on offer in nature documentaries or at the zoo. It might take a monkey a while to type the works of Shakespeare, but stick a bunch of chimps in front of a camera for two hours and I guarantee their antics will be more entertaining than this.
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