When "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" was first shown to the public last month, a group of excited animal activists gathered on Hollywood Boulevard.

上个月，当《人猿星球的崛起》首次向公众放映时，一群兴奋的动物保护者聚集在好莱坞大道上。

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“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” is spectacle with a kick: the transcendence of the normal in creatures so like ourselves is both an entertainment and a needling rebuke to human vanity.

奇观场景的背后亦给人警示：一种似人类的生物超越正常进化过程对我们来说，是一种娱乐材料，亦是对人类自负虚荣的痛斥。

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I'm speaking of the expertly crafted "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," by far the best spectacle movie of the season, and one of the few films to use digital technology for nuanced dramatic effect.

我讲的就是制作优良的《人猿星球的兴起》——本季度目前为止最好看的奇观电影，它也是为数不多的应用数码技术达到细致入微戏剧性效果的电影之一。

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And it was the planet of the apes after the destructive act of a big war, and atomic bombs and whatever in the movie.

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In recent decades, Jonathan Miller's controversial 1982 English National Opera production, filled with Mafioso in New York's Little Italy circa 1950, has been followed by concepts as goofy as relocating the action to "The Planet of the Apes" in a 2005 staging in Munich, Germany.

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Despite those lowered expectations, the new Planet of the Apes prequel looks like it could be a hit.

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