Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Pros: decent acting, pretty good story
Cons: drags at times, ending

Once upon a time, four astronauts journeyed to what they believed was a distant star. However, somewhere along the way everything got screwed up. Back on Earth, someone realized their mistake and sent off a rescue mission, following the same trajectory...

Pros: The prosthetics and special effects work is well done
Cons: The script is too dour and Poe-faced for it's own good.

So, the year is 1968, and the original Planet of the Apes was a huge success at the box office. 20th Century Fox, smelling more money, instantly green-lit a sequel - Beneath the Planet of the Apes. Does it stand the test of time as well as ...

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I think it fair to warn you now that I’m going to go into a lot of detail for this review. Not only am I going to give away details about this movie, but any discussion of this movie will assume that you’ve already seen ...

Pros: Kim Hunter's reappearance as Dr. Zira, Nice take on the protesting chimpanzee pacifists
Cons: Uncreative script, dark and dull, totally joyless

With fond memories of the initial Planet of the Apes and seeing that the only way to get all the background information was to splurge and get the complete box series in DVD, I began to view my way through the sequels. I also vaguely...

Pros: Heston is great, weirdness abounds
Cons: rehash of the first film

The Planet of the Apes was a huge success, both critically and financially. It set a new standard for make-up effects, and helped start a new boom in science fiction movies. It functioned as satire, and as space opera.

It would be...

Pros: good sets
Cons: weak ending

This is the second of the five Apes film and it picks up right where the Classic first film left off. Charlton Heston disappears, fellow astronaut James Franciscus winds up on the planet looking for him. The film had promise, they build up some strange...

Pros: None
Cons: Too violent, entire story revolves around the Ape military.

I am posting this not as a review but as an announcement to parents! This movie has SEVERAL disturbing images (humans being used for military practice) that will scare and haunt your children. The humans are captured in extremely rough ways, caged and mistreated. This movie may have been rated G before the film industry changed it's rating system, but Disney should be responsible to it's audience and review older films so they are properly rated. This one should be a PG13.

This was a HORRIBLE sequel ~ and even the costumes were less believable.

Do not show this to your kids like we made the mistake of doing. It was rated G and owned by Disney, so we assumed we were safe and not in need of previewing.