That monkey movie

Perhaps it’s this great shot, repeated every minute or so on television of the ape leaping from the building to the helicopter — I never tire of seeing that bit — that has enticed me, but that monkey movie, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is going to be the first one to lure me into a movie theater since Midnight in Paris. I even talked to my son about it and he, too, wants to see it. I’m expecting it will have a blockbuster opening weekend, but we may just brave the throngs Saturday to catch it.

Now, if this indeed is the prequel to Planet of the Apes, the monkeys have to win. Right?

"We go wherever we want to, do what we like to do. We don’t have time to get restless, there’s always something new. Hey, hey, we’re the monkeys, and people say we monkey around. But we’re too busy singing, to put anybody down."