This was an excellent continuation of the modern version of the franchise. I thought it would be great and loved the first one but had no idea how dramatic it would be. Normally, you would think that referring to this movie as dramatic would be bad since half if not more of the cast were apes. However, the effects used to bring the apes to life was so lifelike and the different emotions shown through them should have some of them up for oscar contention. Andy Serkis did another excellent job as Cesar but it was whoever played Koba that really stole the show. There was one part where that monkey went from serious to scared to being silly to get out of a situation and then vicious. It was really impressive. The matching emphasis on the importance of trust and family between the humans and apes was very well directed and kept the pacing of the movie great even though it had a two hour running time.
I would definitely recommend people checking this out. It was a great watch and entertaining in many more ways than I expected.
