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Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Memorable, crazy movie

A Masterpiece!

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Three apes land on earth of the 1970s.Firstly, the pumping Jerry Goldsmith music score heard at the very start of this film is enough of a reason to get this movie on DVD. In fact, I would even say even if you are not interested in this Apes film series or even sci-fi, you must get the DVD just to hear and own the pumping Goldsmith score at the start! As for the film itself, I like it, but I liked it a lot more when I was a child of the 1970s. I am now in my middle aged years, and now the "sit-com-style" of humour seen here is not really my thing. I like the other four films in the series for the disaster-movie-feel they have...which is missing here.But if you want a laugh-out-loud experience, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes is the film for you.

Now, when you make a movie like Planet Of The Apes (1968) due to popular demand, everyone wants a sequel. But the fans are usually very strict on what they want. It is extra hard to keep a series running, without destroying it with one single movie. Now, Beneath the Planet Of The Apes would have been a gamble, due to the Earth being destroyed at the end. So it was an extremely good idea to have three apes (who, coincidentally, are my ultimate favourites) travel back almost 3000 years.When wars are brewing in the Planet Of The Apes, doctors Cornelius, Zira, and Milo use friend Taylor's original spaceship to travel away from the planet. As they were flying, they did the opposite of what previous characters Taylor and Brent did. Instead of travelling to the future, like Taylor and Brent, they travel back to the modern day (well, that was 1971 back then), and watch all of mankind gape at three talking chimpanzees appearing in a spaceship.But soon after, Dr. Milo dies, and Zira and Cornelius, still not fully sure how they got back, are alone and confused. When mankind soon start turning on them, Zira becomes pregnant, and the Government has permission to take the baby away with them. So the race to hide away from mankind begins.With amazing makeup, acting, and suspense, there's no way you can go wrong with a movie like this. You'll cry, marvel, cheer, and get connected to the characters. So, if you like fantastic sequels to movies like 'Back To The Future Part II' (1989), or 'Men In Black 3' (2010), and maybe even if you don't like these, then I most definitely recommend this movie to YOU!!!

Escape from Planet of the Apes is probably the most memorable and beloved of the Ape series due to the likable characterizations of Corneilius and Zira.And even though there are many unexplained plot holes in the film, it makes enjoyable viewing. The acting is good, but the script is sometimes corny. But through the cornball script we learn more about the characters--Zira loathes bananas-Corneilus hates boxing and violence and speaks only "when(Zira)she lets me" and the word "monkey" is a insulting slur! Which brings up to the opening scene. A spacecraft washes up off a LA beach thought to have been commanded by Col. Taylor (Charlton Heston)---How it got thru the time travel to Earth is unknown because we saw it sink to the bottom of the ocean in the first epic. But we digress--there are three apes found in the ship-Corneilius, Zira and Doctor Milo, a friend and colleague who was a genius who half understood the ship (smart ape) Unfornatly, Dr Milo was played by Sal Mineo who could not tolerate the make up was written off early by dying in a tragic accidents.So the tables are now turned again---the humans rule! Corneilus and Zira are now on the other foot of the spectrum They are immediately befriended by a couple of animal scientists and a circus owner who takes them under their wing. They are peaceful creatures and they are soon befriended by a scientist couple and later a kindly circus owner. They are treated very well in the beginning-almost like pets until the paranoia starts to settle in a bit. The humans learn that the Earth was destroyed by a ape war--were they responsible? The final nail in the coffin is that they learn Zira is pregnant with child. Will their descendants take over today's ape and then the world? It is later heightened when Cornilius accidentally kills an orderly who playfully calls Zira's baby a "little monkey" (gasp!) So now the two apes and their baby become the hunted. Can they escape once more? It is interesting to note that when this film was made, abortion was a very hot topic with the Roe vrs Wade decision. There are many references and morality questions asked throughout the film. Could this have influenced the plot? Of course, when compared to the 2014 Planet of the Apes, most are unimpressed. But keep in mind that the make up was VRRY revolutionary for its time in sci fi films. The film reflects A LOT of the seventies in style and thought. It does have a very sad but shocking ending--see the film for some good time traveling.

This third Apes film has certain things going for it, like fine performances from returning actors Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter(as Cornelius and Zira) who really do make you care about them, and whose ultimate fate in "our time" is quite tragic.Trouble is, the way they got here,(a brilliant Ape scientist somehow salvaged Taylor's ship, repaired the damaged circuitry(despite there being no electronic parts in their world!) then got it refueled and launched into space(!?) all just before their Earth is destroyed(Sure!) has got to be the most contrived, implausible plot device in the history of Cinema, not to mention the biggest coincidence ever put on film, and ask a gullible audience to buy! Still, this film does have its fans, I just cannot get past such a whopper of a plot device that the writer wants the viewer to swallow.Even worse, this undermines and cheapens the ending to "Beneath", which did not warrant a sequel. Best to either ignore this, or look at it as occurring in a parallel time line. Only then does this become remotely tolerable...