CURRENT ISSUE 11/5/02 Front Page Weekly Features Advice from Strangers Ape That America? To-Do List: Rally Monkey Monk's Diary News from Travistan Movie Corner Info Archives Crap Shop Who's at Fault? Contact Us! Aye, mateys! Get you some Daily Probe booty!	Daily Probe Movie Review by Bobo the Gibbon   Planet of the Humans I thoroughly enjoyed this imaginative piece of science fiction. Imagine a world controlled by humans, where apes are relegated to second-class status and caged for human amusement. Monkeys are forced to wear hats and beg for money on street corners, orangutans are made to perform degrading antics such as pretending to be shot and playing dead. Ungawa the gorilla is struck on the head with a human femur bone. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself being chased by nearly hairless beasts in Jeeps, pelting him with tranquilizer darts and nets. To his amazement, he finds an entire society of humans who can speak and make more than 20 flavors of coffee. He must now rally his fellow simian captives to overthrow the humans and restore sanity to a world that has become overrun with technology and civility. The make-up artistry is sure to win a Coco Award. Many times during the movie, I forgot I was watching apes in human suits, and actually believed that homo sapiens could speak and use tools. Several apes were actually required to be completely shaved for their roles. The film is rated PG-13 due to violence, suggestive sexual content (in one scene a female ape seductively eats a banana), and language such as Ungawa telling his captor to "get your clean, bald hands off me, you damn human!" I haven't had this much fun at the movies since my younger days when we would throw berries and feces at the screen during the Kong Horror Picture Show. I definitely give this movie an opposable-thumbs up!
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