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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a gorgeous echo of the franchise’s past

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is strongest when it’s interrogating the past.

20th Century Studios’ rebooted Planet of the Apes films became monster successes by presenting remixed takes on the classic tale with some of the most shockingly impressive VFX and motion capture work Weta has ever produced. As Noa and his friends playfully scramble up trees or race through the Eagle Clan’s village with all of its cleverly built wooden structures, you can feel the apes’ exuberance just from the way they struggle to catch their breath in between hoots and hollers of excitement. But when a solitary and seemingly mute human girl (Freya Allan) begins stealing from the Eagle Clan, her presence thrusts them into a brutal conflict with evolution-obsessed bonobo king Proximus Caesar (Kevin Durand) that puts all of their lives in jeopardy.

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