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The BAFTAs Went Bananas for Monkey Movies
The BAFTAs sure aren’t flinging ‘boo!’ at these flicks.
The BAFTAs nominated five films from 2024 for their “Special Visual Effects” award: Better Man, Dune: Part Two, Gladiator II, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, and Wicked. Notably snubbed from this veritable zoo enclosure of nominees is Mufasa, which heavily features a “realistic” animated interpretation of Rafiki the baboon. My gambit is, unless the British all really love Robbie Williams as much as they say they do, all the monkey nominees will cancel each out in an epic simian smackdown, leaving ape-less Dune: Part Two as the one true winner of the category.
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