Yup, monkeys. Senators like this plucky gladiator ... quality that might be found in Caesar’s Second-Hand Store. “Gladiator II’s” best moments come when Mescal is in play with Washington ...

Gladiator II hasn't ended up anywhere near as much of ... gladiatorial battles and a number of deadly foes including mutated monkeys, Colosseum-dwelling sharks and a double-crossing Denzel Washington.

Of particular note is the intense if absurd reality of the fight in the arena with the monkeys even if the monkeys are unlike ... This has just served to demean the excellence of its precursor ...

He eats monkeys.” Sex and Skin: None outside the occasional almost-revealing flowy toga. Our Take: Gladiator II is fairly typical of late-period Scott – brilliant in places, slapdash in others ...

Two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington, often hailed as one of the best actors to ever take to the stage and screen, has been all the buzz for his performance in “Gladiator II.” Many even ...

“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” might not have the cultural clout ... authoritarian abuses and foul-tempered monkeys, none of which adds up to a full-blown phenomenon.” ...

As a standalone it might have had something, maybe, as a sequel to gladiator its awful. Looks like the exact same team of people, and software/hardware used to create the monkeys in the 1995 film ...

The primates are part of the Old-World monkeys belonging to the Cercopithecidae family. The strength they display in ‘Gladiator II’ is not completely an exaggeration since they are one of the largest ...

Apes dominate, led by “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” “Better Man” (both done by Wētā FX), the baboons in “Gladiator II” and the flying monkeys in “Wicked” (both done by ILM).

In Gladiator II, Pascal’s men don’t know who Arishat ... as well have left the whole premise behind. Mescal battles CGI-monkeys, outsmarts a CGI-rhinoceros, and dodges CGI-sharks.