>>16941 (OP)I don't know if you realize this, but the market for ape and monkey-themed films has been completely saturated the past several years, from King Kong to Planet of the Apes to Monkey Man, Monkey King, and several others I can't think of, There was even one called White Monkey or something but it wasn't a monkey, it was some Indian kung fu raisin.
By trying to give their film a unique look or gimmick, making the main character a chimp, all they really did was make it blend in with every other third movie which is also inexplicably about monkeys or apes for some reason.
Seriously, there are way more ape and monkey movies that I can't even remember, if you go looking through movies for the last few years, it's crazy how many ape and monkey-related films there were. I remember when it was a big deal when there were two different asteroid movies at the same time, or two volcano movies, or two movies about ants, everybody used to point out how odd it was, what a strange coincidence, how unique a statistical anomaly it is, "wow, two submarine movies in the same year, what are the odds?"
All of a sudden there's DOZENS and DOZENS of ape and monkey movies at the same time and nobody thinks that's weird.