I actually never understood the ending until seeing your explanation. It actually makes the movie 10x better

The chimp crawling into his cage while injured broke my heart in two.

I always assumed the ending meant that the apes were doomed to repeat the mistakes of man no matter what, but your take does clean up a few loose ends.

I never understood why people hated this movie or didn't like it. The movie is supposed to be crazy and weird, the costumes and story are different from any other movie and very creative and cool. Reminds me Dark Crystal, very dark and adventurous. It's a weird concept so why can't it be a *WEIRD MOVIE??!!* I liked it when I first saw it.

I really liked Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes! That intro score was hair raising, the acting was on point, and the ape armor was so detailed

The ending should've at least had a sequel.

OMG!!! Finally someone gave a proper explanation of the ending. I always loved the movie but never fully understood the end. You just made my day!

Everyone remembers the twist ending of the 1968 original along with Cesar saying No. What a lot of fans of The Planet of the Apes franchise is the jaw dropping moment in the 2001 film "General Thade" outstretching his arm and pointing the gun at Leo. Granted it lacks the impact of the "Cesar No" moment but just think of a moment. Thade just by sniffing and studying the gun for a single moment figures out how to hold it and use it...oh and the look of total shock and horror on Leo's face is priceless

I never understood the bad reputation and hate this movie gets. It has so much qualities that I can easily ignore the negatives which are, in fact, very few. I saw it in the theaters and immediately liked it.

I one hundred percent agree this a great movie that deserves to be better rated

The ending is actually almost the same as the ending in the original book. The astronaut gets back to Earth and finds out apes rule there also. Just uses DC instead of Paris.

I have my own opinion about this movie. When I watched it as a child, it amazed me. I have always hoped for a sequel to be made. It is unfortunate that Tim and the production team did not receive the recognition they deserved. The movie was made with great attention to detail and passion. It would be great if they could connect the existing storyline with the newer films and the 2001 Apes movie. On a different note, the scene where Mark Wahlberg's character returns to space through the rift always gives me chills. The music perfectly complements the moment. I find it haunting and satisfying. The ending is one of the best and leaves you wanting more.

I remember hearing that Burton filmed 5 different endings for this film - one being the original film’s ending, and no one knew which he would use. To my knowledge, those endings have never been released, but I’d love to see them.

"What you hold in your hand is the proof of their power. Their power of invention! Their power of technology! Against this, our strength means nothing! This has the power of a thousand spears! I warn you their ingenuity goes hand in hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious, as violent." - Zaius He's not exactly wrong.

general Thade single handedly made this entire movie. He was so deep in nature and character and I fully understand his motives and fears. I think Tim Roth was astounding in the film. It was way better than what Mark Whalberg could lead in my opinion. The ending was so fitting and I felt made it even more clear that there wasnt a right and wrong or good Vs evil in the film. Different perspectives with one driven by fear and the other driven by empathy.

“No remake of a classic will ever be as well received as the original.” So we just gonna dish on John Carpenter’s “The Thing” huh?

Finally someone thinking like me. I liked this film a lot and never understood why it is so hated. It was my first DVD and even the first movie I bought, and that even without knowing the film beforehand! The makeup, the characters, the costumes, the twist, the tributes to the old films, it was really good!

The film could've taken the book's ending even further with its prologue and epilogue; two ape astronauts find the Mark Wahlberg character's account of the film's story and dismiss it as fiction because, to them, human intelligence doesn't exist.

Thank you. This movie is so underrated, and undeservedly so. It was a marvel and still is today. The craft and dedication in the ape society and cosplay alone are quite possibly unmatched.

You bring up so many points I've believed for years. Tim Roth did such a great job. He was terrifying! The intensity of his eyes and voice were scary.

So the idea that drives the plot of this film pretty much went over all the audiences and critics heads

I finally get a decent explaining for this movie's ending. Great job!

the ending still ...no matter how hard you try to explain it, still doesn't work.

I enjoyed this film when it came out but I was also only 19 at the time, I was always confused about that ending but the way you explained how the interplanetary travel thru worm holes worked actually makes so much sense, Thank you

Ok, the whole "wormhole alternate timeline" thing confused the hell out of me.

I love this movie. yep, I said it. It was my first dvd.

I'm a big fan of Tim Burton and have always found something to love about all his movies. I actually loved his Planet of the Apes (and love how you explained Caeser going back further in Earth's timeline so it fully makes sense!) because of Helena Bonham Carter's performance. This was the movie that absolutely made me love her and track her career. I agree, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes wasn't perfect, but it wasn't terrible. What's terrible is that the story wasn't continued

Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow falls into his “Lazy Period”????? Hell no!!!!

The ending is pretty close to the original book ending

After watching this film recently, I came to the opinion that Planet of the Apes (2001) is not only a very underrated film but a very misunderstood film as well. The ending, in my opinion, is one of the most memorable twists of modern films. Thade traveling through a wormhole altering the past that Leo wasn't aware of can often be compared to Back to the Future Part II where Biff gives himself the sports almanac and altering the future (1985) in 1955 while Marty & Doc were still in 2015 and not aware of yet until they travel back to the altered 1985 that would technically be the past of 2015 that slowly altered when Biff returned.

the problem with this theory is simple: when the pod got inside the wormhole, the on-board computer started displaying the date and the years went very fast forward. when the lost pod went back into the wormhole, the years went backwards.

This movie was extremely underrated. Indeed, Charleston Heston's final role, to me was his best ever!

TAKE YOUR HANDS OF ME YOU DAMN DIRTY HUMAN! just stop movie just stop!

I actually liked it cuz it felt like an old-school sci-fi novel.

I actually love this take on the Planet of the Apes saga....your explanation of the ending makes sense.

You're actually pretty spot on with the ending. There was another pod on the ship that Thane figures out how to fly and goes through the wormhole.

“It subverts the audience’s expectations.” Where have I heard that before?

5000 thousand years later we have screen crush lmfao

You helped me with working out the end of this movie. It was the only part, I couldn’t wrap my head around, but that graphic you showed really helped with your explanation on your idea.

Was always waiting for the part 2 that was never made

yeah well that's just like.....your opinion man

6:42 - BLEW MY MIND AND MADE ME LOVE THE MOVIE!!

Thank you for explaining the ending. That does make it a lot smarter. What a shame we didn't get a sequel.

General can not escape the spaceship since it is only able to work with finger prints of humans

My issue with the remake is that it tries to be smarter than the original with those moments, but then has bizarre dancing scenes and rips off the original, undoing all it's good work..

I own the film on DVD, along with the original Apes films, and enjoy watching it from time to time, but I see at least four logic issues with the ending (and none of them have anything to do with the wormhole reversing the order of entry/exit; I get all that). 1) The idea that Thade, or anyone under his command, could repair Wahlberg's damaged pod and successfully launch it into space is a serious stretch. Admittedly, something similar occurred in Escape From the Planet of the Apes, but it wasn't very plausible in that film, and it isn't in Burton's film either. 2) Even if Thade did use the pod to travel to Earth's past, how was he able to take over the planet (or the US, at least) on his own? Thade was tough, superhuman even, but I can't see him subjugating all of humanity, or even just the US (even the early, Lincoln-era US), by himself. 3) How were there so many intelligent apes in the US by 2029, and not just chimps but gorillas as well? Did Thade breed with terrestrial apes? I wouldn't have thought there'd be many of those in the early US, even if he wanted to do that. And I wouldn't have thought he could produce a viable population of intelligent apes by impregnating a small number of terrestrial, female apes. Especially enough to populate a whole city by 2029. 4) Why does this alternate version of 21st century Washington DC look so similar to that of the real world, from the architecture, to the technology, to the professions on display, such as cops and firefighters? If Thade subjugated humanity (or at least the US population) some time around the 19th century, or prior to that, it doesn't seem very likely that the development of society and technology would have followed such a similar path, except with apes taking the place of humans. We could solve the second and third problems by speculating that Thade didn't travel to Earth alone, but was somehow able to bring an army with him, and perhaps some females to breed with too. However, the idea that a society as technologically primitive as Thade's could repair a single, damaged pod and successfully launch it into space is already a stretch. The idea that they built a large number of additional pods, then planned and carried out a large scale invasion, including bringing females along to breed with, strains credibility to breaking point. As a side note, the presence of horses on the apes' planet seems to be a plot hole in and of itself. All the apes and humans on that planet were descended from the space station that travelled through the wormhole and crashed there hundreds or thousands of years in the past. So did that space station have horses on it as well? If so, why? And if not, were these alien horses that evolved on that planet independent of terrestrial horses?

Never understood how Burton didn’t make this into a series. It was my favorite of all the Apes films

Thane uses Wahlberg's ship. He kills the only two apes who know where the ship is. Then Giamati's character takes all of the technical documents from the chimp's ship after it lands. Thane uses those docs to learn how to operate Wahlberg's ship. Your reverse time travel theory is spot on - though not obvious to most on a first view.

Take THAT, Nostalgia Critic!

I loved this movie, just watched it. I was very confused with the ending so i decided to look it up. I was like: "Wait, he was thousands of years in the past on a different planet, how did that alter earths history?" But it makes sense now that you explained the wormhole. I absolutely love this film, really don't get all the hate it gets.

@7:29 The original ending of the Planet of the Apes film was "shocking" becuase you learn the fate of Earth (and Mandkind) through Taylor finding an icon symbol. And in the beginning of the film Tayor is explaing to the other crew member that over 2000 years has passed. What is home (earth) after that much time has passed? And I don't think many people criticized the production value of the remake/reboot/re-imagining. My biggest issue with the movie was that all the primitive humans could speck English. It did make Wahlberg character standout from anyone else (other than he did not want to be a slave). There is also some interesting and dark about the original film that's missing from this one. That Dr. Zaius knew about humans and there destruction they caused. That they have the ability to destroy all life within them. That he would capture and labotomize any and every human that showed intelligence. And to keep man from evolving.

7:31 If Taylor realizes he can't go home, how can you explain Cornelius, Zira and Milo's ability to go back to 1973 in Escape using the VERY SAME SHIP TAYLOR IS ON? 🤷

I saw this movie in the theater, absolutely loved it, and was completely shocked at how much everyone else - (including the people I went to the movie with) hated it! This was great to hear😃

This movie's ending was probably the first negative film going experience I had in my life (I was only 11 at the time) and honestly your explanation made even less sense than the actual ending

There is one part of your video essay that does not add up. You mentioned in the original film, the crying baby doll artifact scene. How did Thade's dying father come in possession of an artifact of a human gun and have the knowledge of the humans once beholden to this tech?

General Thade was totally awesome. I loved the ending with Thade sitting in the Lincoln memorial. This movie was ten stars.

Never understood that the humans stopped existing on earth. I just thought it was an alternate dimension at the end.

5:57 nice dad joke. No literally my dad made that joke the first time we watched this.

It's 2023 and I just picked up the 2 disk special edition DVD. Thanks screen crush for helping to reinforce my last purchase decision 😅

6 Years later, and seeing how far ScreenCrush has come is beautiful

I thought I was the only person on the planet who actually liked it. I thought the ending was great!

Never understood the hate for this film. I saw the originals and loved them. Loved this too.

The prosthetics for this movie are still incredible even by today’s standard

I saw this in the theater and LOVED it! I still do. Is it perfect, no, but I love the re imagining. I watcher ll of the Ape movies frequently, including this one. To bad we never got a sequel.

THANK YOU! As it does reflect the ending of the original book, this reboot in ways includes reworked elements of "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" also. And I LOVE your explanation of the wormhole effect. Let's not overlook Danny Elfman's great unsettling music. It's not easy to rival Jerry Goldsmith's original incredible score.

I Never got that ending before you just explained it. Thank you!!

I actually just watched this movie for the first time and was so confused by the ending. Thankyou for the explanation of how the wormhole works (the further in the future you leave, the further back in the past you arrive thing) this wasn't explained in the movie at all and made the ending incredibly confusing. I was thinking if he goes back through the wormhole, he gets back to his ship meaning they never go looking for him, never crash land, the whole plot never happened... then it hits with the aperaham lincoln thing and I was just like dubya tee eff mate.

Space-Time: That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. It was a cool ending, but the explanation is...no...it just isn't, ok? Wow.

Because so many people involved in creating a movie, even if a movie has issues I never take it for granted that it is bad, instead I try to focus on what was good in it: Maybe the acting, music, story, FX, etc - This way I've found greatness in a lot of movies that others found them terrible and also found more interests in movies. Sad that most film critics do not do the same.

The ending deserves a sequel, what happened after he got arrested?

The most memorable thing about seeing the remake was that, when shopping for smuggle-in refreshments, all the convenience stores were selling Mad Dog, not just in the usual orange and grape options, but also in banana flavor. Like the movie, it wasn't all bad, but a little goes a long way and I haven't sought it out since.

Without a sequel people were left with the question how did Thade change the past.

I loved the movie when I saw it, but I was a kid. I haven't watched it as an adult. But I remember being very entertained.

Are you sure you explaind the time travel at the end correctly ?

It’s not too late for a sequel.

When Pericles goes back into his cage, he is going home, to safety. What makes it sad is that he is injured, and Marky Mark just left him there.

My favorite Planet Of The Apes. George Clooney would be more believable as a Charleton Heston-type of Air Force NASA captain. But MW is not terribly bad, he's believable. Anybody but Nicholas Cage.

It really is a very good movie. The plot is tight, the special effects/costumes are excellent, and Mark Wahlberg does a great job as the lead. I remember being very excited to see it in the theater when it was originally released, and I really liked it a lot. I'm glad I'm not the only one!

That graph gave me flashbacks of middle school an d the corresponding angles and vertical theorems. Thanks.

Two things about this movie that should be pointed out: Paul Giamatti’s character clearly takes something from the pod before Marky Mark uses it to return to Earth. Also Thade’s gun changes during the end sequence when he disappears into the smoke; it’s been assumed by many this is a continuity error. It isn’t.

2:05 "armor inspired by ancient egipcian warrior's" has no similarities besides helmet and bracelets(by a stretch)

I liked the movie before the ending, I just felt it out of place, because everything was fixed at that time, I just felt it as something from nowhere to create shock value (... and also, that explanation presented in this video is not explained on the movie, the hero would have arrived also very early in the past, and the villain even earlier, both before the Lincoln monument even existed).

7:33 I loved how the "Aaand..." synced up perfectly with the ape talking. Brilliant touch or lucky accident?

I really have fond memories of this movie and I think it would've benefitted from an epilogue post-credits showing Thade and how he got to earth in the past. Perhaps they were holding back on that for the sequel I guess. But without that information I was baffled at the ending, and not in a good way, but I still really enjoyed this movie.

A very good movie. The look and the atmosphere are perfect. My favorite cinematography of all Burtons movies. I’m just really surprised they didn’t lay down a few more bucks for a better lead actor tho. If they had, this would have been a small masterpiece. Still, I would have gladly accepted him if we would have gotten a trilogy or even one sequel.

This was actually my favorite one after the original one

Damn.. 2001, I can't believe it's bien so long I was around 6 years old when the movie came out. Remember back in the day the apes really scared me but in recent years I've really come to enjoy the film

"Her art make is ... uh 😳 ... confusing."

I agree , I think the 2001 remake was pretty, good. In spite of Matk Wahlberg.

The costumes and faces are better than the current Ape films IMO.

When i was a kid i had so many questions. Ow I watched again and make alot of sense now.

the ending makes so much more sense now

I was worried this was going to be one of those "the prequels weren't that bad" vids. This actually made some good points

I never thought the movie was bad. Tim Burton is a genius. People just didn't get the movie.

Read the novel in high school, back in the early 80s. Loved the original movies, but knew of the budget constraints. The ending for this would have worked better had Burton actually followed the novel a little more. In it, the apes were advanced to the point of flying in space, thus with the humans shown going through a warp, it could be implied that some apes did the same and ended up in earths distant past.

well hello there and thanks for giving us your view point on this movie. loved and agreed with most of what you had to say, i enjoyed your viewpoint. here's mine: having been a huuuuuuuuuuuge original pota fan since the early seventies i was super trouper excited to hear that it was finally going to be remade. how could you top a perfect movie? well with better make up, more realistic effects to start with. upon first viewing, on opening afternoon where me and three other people were in attendance i might add, that unfortunately was where this movie's topping started and ended. to say i couldn't stand it would be an understatement. i was soooooo upset that the apes, despite most of them looking very good, had such crazy decorative make up and awful hair do's. i was devastatingly upset with some of the dreadful one liners. 'i'm having a bad hair day' to mention just one of far too many. i thought the cgi effects where they would jump 22 feet in the air beyond realistic, and therefore annoyed me no end every time. i couldn't look beyond any of those things and came out utterly disappointed. flash forward quite a few years and here's mine again: still upset about the awful hair do's etc, and that will never change. still waaaaaaaaaaaay too many ridiculous one liners, and that will never change. but, more impressed with the look of the apes. loved that the chimpanzees were small ish actors, the gorillas were huge mf actors, the orangutans, gosh how do you say this with out offending anyone, plumpish actors. very well cast. loved the costumes, loved ape village, loved almost everything else about this movie, loved the cameo by our nova, tucked into the human cage. has time improved it? perhaps. have i become a lot less critical of specific things and learned to enjoy the overall event as opposed to finding a few things to ruin the whole experience? most definitely. and thank god for that. lol i now see this movie as third best only to the original, which of course couldn't possibly be any better, then 'rise', which was another almost perfect movie too. it's so beautifully made and once you buy into talking monkeys, i mean apes, and the whole science fiction story, it's a really well made movie i thought the ending to the original was bone chillingly amazing, and i challenge anyone to find three science fiction movies to beat that, but this one comes pretty close. also it's in much more keeping with the original story. so thanks for your opinion and your light hearted way of presenting it, love and peace to you and all, xxxxxxx

easy way to know that your ending sucks is when you need a diagram to explain it. Also, easy way to know your whole movie sucks is when you have to "imagine" someone else in the lead for it to be watchable.

I freaking loved this movie! The makeup, the acting, the music, everything! The ending actually scared me, I'm not going to lie, because it does pose a frightening scenario.

Am I the only one that wanted another one cause I wanted that ending explained

I always wondered why he bothered trying to go back