Gonna go ‘Ape’ this weekend? You should

So, another monkey movie opens today. Excuse me, ape movie.

Funny. I sitll remember seeing the original “Planet of the Apes.” And I remember how shocked I was at two specific parts: 1, when the gorilla on horseback suddenly appears and, 2, that shattering ending. Of course, similar to most everything else that Hollywood does, the movie became a series …. the latest chapter of which being “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”

It’s hard to think that this will be in any way a match of the original (directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and released in 1968). But I’ll go anyway.

Those monkeys — excuse me, apes — are cool.

Below : The trailer for “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.”