I went back and watched rise on the strength of this hype. I even watched the bridge videos someone posted. But this shit was dumb. I couldn't watch any more after the humans bitched out when the apes rode in on some clint eastwood and later decided to test their luck.

Are they speaking and using sign language because they lost the ability to communicate with each other through other means? Is that a thing? Do sign language apes do that irl? Also it seems to me that it's pretty good being a talking ape, why would human beings evolve from that to a point where they can't smash cars, scale buildings and use their feet?