Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton version) (Spoiler warning: discusses the ending)

[WickyWoo]

I've seen this movie several times,and tonight on Blu Ray for the first time. I'm still confused as to the ending.

I understand pretty much everything except the ending?

Did Gen Thade travel back in time to earth, set up the Ape society?

Any theories?

The movie is the ending of the book, except it's Washington DC instead of Paris

The original DVD contained a booklet that explained everything. First monkey went into the time vortex BEFORE Mark Wahlberg, but came out AFTER. So Thade managed to travel back hundreds or thousands of years before Mark Wahlberg arrived, and used his advanced DNA to breed a race of super apes on earth and take over

So Mark returned to a different point in time

In the book, they travel to an earthlike planet found orbiting Betelgeuse, relativity being as it is, hundreds of years pass in-between. Escape from the planet of the apes reversed to human in an ape society and the Heston movie combined are basically what the book is.

Burton's movie bears no resemblence to the book except for that ending whatsoever
Long story short, hero returns with Nova and their son on his spaceship, lands in a Paris ruled by apes because we helped them advance toa point they could take over.