History Film / PlanetOfTheApes2001

* VillainWorld: Thade somehow managed to escape, made it back to Earth before Leo did, and conquered the planet in his absence. Leo is horrified upon seeing a statue of Thade celebrating him as the beloved founder of the American Ape Republic.

* VillainHasAPoint: Limbo (a slave trader dealing in humans) points out that while other apes look down on his distasteful work, he's doing a job that no one else wants to do and other apes benefit from his services. Thade also falls into this category, as the ape politicians send him to do the dirty work. It also established that humans have attacked and stolen from apes on numerous occasions and his job is to protect other apes.

** The first line in the film spoken by an ape to an human (right after Thade notes [[ItCanThink "this one's looking at me"]] is the page quote, just like the first thing Taylor says to an ape is "Take your stinkin' paws off me, you damn dirty APE!"
** Senator Nado's wife is named Nova, and Thade's father is named Zaius.
** Thade's father, played by Charlton Heston, repeats Taylor's famous "damn you all to hell..." line as he lies dying.
** The shot of the group arriving at the Calima ruins is the same way as Taylor and Nova arriving at the Art/StatueOfLiberty in the original film.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The space electromagnetic storm that even causes spacetime interference to whoever enters it.
* NeverTrustATrailer: In the trailers, Attar shouts, "BOW YOUR HEAD!", which, given the series' theme, would imply that he's telling a human to be subservient. In the actual film, however, Attar wants everyone to pray before their meal.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Even though the entire point of having a chimp astronaut is because they're expendable if something goes wrong, Leo goes after him when something goes wrong. This causes both the deaths of his workmates, the creation of the ape society, and dooms the human race.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: Nice job, Thade. Pericles was seen as the arrival of apes' god, Semos. Now that you wounded him, your "friend" Attar [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere felt betrayed and refused to give you any more help when you needed it.]] ]]
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]]. The protagonist attempts to pull it off on a trained chimp. The scene can be only compared to dog [[OutrunningTheFireball outrunning the fireball in dramatic slow-motion]] in ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
* {{Novelization}}: It got two, an adult novelization by William Thomas Quick and John Whitman wrote a junior novel.
* NowDoItAgainBackwards: Going through a storm pushes you ahead in time, and going through it again in the opposite direction...
* NubileSavage: Daena, played by Estella Warren, sort-of being the remake's Nova.
* ObviouslyEvil: Seriously, just look at Thade's face and listen to his voice.
* PeekABooCorpse: Done while inspecting Leo's ship that crashed.
* PredecessorCastingGag: Subverted. Zaius, father of the villain General Thade, is portrayed by Creator/CharltonHeston, who played the ''protagonist'' of [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 the original film adaptation]]. Zaius even gets to echo the last lines of the previous film.

* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Attar was a pupil of former military leader Krull, until he was disgraced by Thade for questioning his family, descendants of Semos, of whom Attar is a devoted follower.

* RockBeatsLaser: A technologically advanced society is implied to be inferior to a simple, agrarian one.
* ScienceIsBad: Just one example: genetically enhancing apes to make them more suitable for work makes them later rebellious.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:The ending with Leo landing in a modern day Earth ruled by Apes.]]
* ShoutOut: At one point it is suggested [[SterilityPlague a solution to the human problem is to sterilize them all]], similar to the fate of Yahoos in ''Literature/GulliversTravels''.
* ShownTheirWork: The evolved apes certainly look more like real apes do than in the original, especially the orangutans.

* SuperDrowningSkills: The evolved apes are hydrophobic because they have no ability to swim ([[ShownTheirWork similar to actual apes]]).

* VillainWorld: [[spoiler:Thade somehow managed to escape, made it back to Earth before Leo did, and conquered the planet in his absence. Leo is horrified upon seeing a statue of Thade celebrating him as the beloved founder of the American Ape Republic.]]

* VisualPun: [[spoiler: When Leo walks up to the Lincoln memorial and realizes it's an ape... it can be inferred that it's a memorial of ''Ape''raham Lincoln]].

* IronyAsSheIsCast: Charlton Heston's character bemoans the human invention of guns in his deathbed. The scene was filmed near the end of Heston's very talked tenure as president of the National Rifle Association.

* {{Expy}}:
** Leo (Taylor and thus Ulysse from the original novel)
** Thade (Ursus and Urko)
** Ari (Zira)
** Daena (Nova)
** Semos could be considered one to Caesar (or Aldo, according to the Sacred Scrolls in the original movies), who led the ape uprising against their human masters.
** In light of the original novel, Pericles is one to Hector.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Thade spends a lot of time visiting his dying father, and also buys a pet (ie a human child) for his niece.
* FantasticRacism: Apes despise and look down on humans and use them as slave labor (though with even less justification than in the original, since humans are shown to be fully sapient in the remake) while Thade thinks they should be straight-up exterminated for the good of apekind.
* FantasyLandmarkEquivalent: PlayedForDrama at the ending of the movie, where Leo encounters [[spoiler:ape police at the foot of what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial, but is in fact a memorial to Thade]].
* GainaxEnding: It is pretty vague, although not necessarily in a bad way. Not in a good one, either.

* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: The two ape soldiers who found Leo's pod. Thade promptly kills them both.
* HazyFeelTurn: Limbo retains his greedy qualities, even seeing the peace as a "new era of trade with the humans."

* IChooseToStay: Inverted with Pericles, as Leo believes he belongs with the apes. Ari promises Leo she'll take care of him.
* IgnoreTheFanService: Leo pays absolutely no attention at all to the drop dead gorgeous Daena.

* {{Irony}}: A funny version. Limbo disregards Leo's description of zoos with "[[CulturalPosturing Apes in cages, right...]]" [[spoiler:Later on, he hides himself in one of the ''Oberon'''s cages to avoid the fighting.]]

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: During the final battle, [[spoiler:Leo exhausts the remaining fuel in the ''Oberon'' to fire a massive burst from its engines, knocking down the first wave of attacking apes so that the humans can gain an advantage in the fight]].
* {{Jerkass}}: General Thade.
* KickTheDog: General Thade knocks the human-friendly (and unevolved) chimp Pericles against a wall, breaking the chimp's leg; thus cowed, Pericles crawls pathetically back into the safety of his cage.
* KillerGorilla: While the gorillas are still soldiers, that stereotype is actually applied to the chimpanzees, specially Thade.

* LoveTriangle: Between Leo, Ari, and Daena.
* MindScrew: The ending. Which amusingly is TruerToTheText, namely [[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes the original novel]], [[spoiler: where Ulysse encounters sentient apes at Orly Airport, only now Leo encounters ape police at the foot of what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial, but is in fact a memorial to Thade.]]

* ActorAllusion: Creator/CharltonHeston is an ape (whose dying words mirror the closing line of the original movie), and Linda Harrison (Nova) also cameos. Heston's character bemoaning the human invention of guns is really ironic given this was near the end of Heston's tenure as president of the National Rifle Association.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The entire ape society. In the original movies, they evolved from slave apes who TurnedAgainstTheirMasters. In the remake, there's no sign that the apes were oppressed in any meaningful way but still rebel against humans due to a particular power-hungry ape among them (from whom [[BigBad General Thade]] descended). Also, the humans they have currently enslaved themselves are shown to possess actual sapience, whereas Nova and her people were mute and had an intellect on par with cows. Finally, Thade's reasons for wanting to exterminate all humans are driven more by bigotry and lust for power compared to Dr. Zaius' genuine worry about the [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves inherent destructiveness of humankind]] since he's actually seen the results of their atomic war. Zaius would certainly never consider casually [[ApeShallNeverKillApe murdering another ape]][[note]]unless you count how he threatens to have Cornelius and Zira executed for heresy[[/note]] to advance his own plans like Thade did. However, [[ScienceMarchesOn Thade behaves just as how a real chimpanzee would]].
* AdaptationDistillation: It actually takes much more from [[Literature/PlanetOfTheApes Pierre Boulle's novel]] than the 1968 movie (for starters, the planet is not the humans' own [[spoiler:and the protagonist finds an ape-ruled Earth in the end]]).

** The ending only makes sense if you read the explanation on the movie's (now defunct) website.

** In regards to the novelization, this trope is somewhat averted when you take into account that it ends with Leo leaving Ashlar and entering the electromagnetic storm, not detailing his return to Earth that happens afterward.

* [[SpaceJews Ape Jews]]: Limbo, a [[GreedyJew money-grubbing dealer]].
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Subverted by General Thade. He claims that apes are morally superior to humans because humans are inherently savage compared to their "more cultured" kind, but he has no problem with killing any apes who are opposed to his plans to wipe out mankind. Or even because [[LeaveNoWitnesses they've seen too much]].
* ApocalypticLog: The Oberon reports.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Done intentionally in the case of female apes. In order to make them seem more attractive, they were given eyebrows, something real apes do not have. And human-sized breasts, evident when the female ape is being "sexy" for the Senator Nado. Note that female apes do have breasts, just not as "perky" as human females.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:At the end of the desert climax, General Thade is locked up and Leo is finally able to return to Earth. However, due to a TimeyWimeyBall, Thade managed to make it to Earth before Leo and [[VillainWorld reshaped it in his image]].]]

* CargoCult: Leo's chimp is confused with the apes' God, Semos.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The film ended with [[spoiler:the human in a modern world where all people are apes]]. And it ended up also being LeftHanging given the lack of sequel (there was a comic following up on the planet where Leo crashed, [[spoiler:rather than this new Earth]]).

* ContinuityNod: So, [[spoiler: Zaius]], you go from being Minister of Science, proclaiming that apes and humans have nothing in common biologically, declaring that the principles of science and theology work side-by-side, and those who go against it are instant heretics to a senator who constantly reminds those of humanity's destructive nature? No wonder [[GeneralRipper Thade]] closely followed, and even amplified, your ideals.
* ConvenientlyClosePlanet: Leo flies to Earth from wherever the space station was (either Jupiter or Saturn[[note]]which ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' had already noted is years of travel away[[/note]]) in that ''tiny little'' spaceship. It can't have been very far in that ship with no toilet or way to get up and move around - or that craft could ''really'' book it.
* CrystalDragonJesus: The apes' religion. Though unlike Jesus, Semos is belligerent...

* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler:Leo spends the entire movie trying to escape and then stop General Thade before returning to his own time, only to find that Thade has somehow taken over Planet Earth in his absence.]]

* RemakeCameo: Linda Harrison (Nova) as a human slave; [[spoiler:Charlton Heston]] as Thade's father.

* TruerToTheText: A minor case but the planet is not Earth, making it more truer to the Boulle novel. The TwistEnding also resembles the one in the novel.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: General Thade is a FrontlineGeneral despite his advancing age. Earlier in the film he also murders two gorilla soldiers who tower over him by doing a backflip over them to kill them both from behind.