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Yep, I hated that ending too; it almost looked tacked on as an afterthought! :o(

My wife and I saw this movie twice, the second time in order to take a friend who missed it openning weekend. Second time around an interesting thing occured. That shaky ending became even more painfully obvious, but Tim Burton almost redeemed himself with the movie's bitingly satirical Liberal human vs Conservative ape subtext that isn't readily apparant first time out. Yes siree, it's there throughout the film and not at all subtle once you catch on to it, but it's certainly more obvious with a second screening!

Viewed in this light, Tim makes REAL monkeys (so-to-speak) out of hard-nosed Conservatives by analogizing them to the militant and paranoid religion-driven apes. Of course, the "Liberal" apes that help Mark Wahlburg escape are the caring, compassionate and curious ones who don't agree with their societies fascist military culture. In the end, the commanding ape realizes that his loyalties have been misplaced, that the religious myths which have been passed down are all lies, and that both human and ape species must learn to co-exist in peace rather than continue on the path of subjugation, warfare and extermination.

Unfortunately, the tacked on "shaggy-dog" ending intended to one-up (i.e., an impossible task which the Producers and Director should've realized from the outset) the original movie's "Stature of Liberty" climax fails miserably and only provides a continuity faux pas that a blind man could drive a Mack truck through!

So, taking this film's good points along with it's bad, if I were involved in editing this picture for a future re-release, I would probably cut the entire final sequence leaving Mark Wahlburg to ponder his future with either the human female, the ape scientist or both and more accurately retitle it "Planet of the Right-Wing Guerillas" (You don't like that one? Okay, how about "Conservatives in the Mist?" -- grin)

Cheers,
AuPh

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