Escape from the Planet of the Apes

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Summary: Here, let me explain...
Review: Blah blah blah blah... can't they all stop talking so much!? This exposition-heavy installment of the famous Ape series is a bit of drag, if the truth be told... If you're doing the whole series, then, yeah, you have to check this one out, but it is a bit dull.

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Summary: Funniest Ape Movie!
Review: Great movie! But there is one thing: How can there be a 3rd movie and earth was destroyed? Well, Dr.Zira,Dr.Cornelius and Dr.Milo are back to earth's past in 1973. Dr.Milo is killed in by a gorila. The Zoo finds out that Zira and Cornelius can talk. Now the whole town will meet them. They find out what other apes do to humans on their planet.Zira has a baby named Ceaser. The President wants them killed or the human race can not survie. For more action, see Escape from the planet of the apes!

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Summary: Poor Beginning but a good story nonetheless
Review: Once you get past the preposturous and serious flawed opening of the movie, you have a great story (in the first film we saw the damaged ship sink in the water. This film supposes that Cornelious and Zira somehow retrieved the ship and repaired it and were able to fly it back through time. All this was done in the short time from when Brent left their camp in the second film till he reached the mutant camp, which at most was a day). This was probably the best acting for Roddy McDowell and Kim Hunter in the series. The movie makes us question the scientific use of animals in research.

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Summary: Poor Beginning but a good story nonetheless
Review: Once you get past the preposturous and serious flawed opening of the movie, you have a great story (in the first film we saw the damaged ship sink in the water. This film supposes that Cornelious and Zira somehow retrieved the ship and repaired it and were able to fly it back through time. All this was done in the short time from when Brent left their camp in the second film till he reached the mutant camp, which at most was a day). This was probably the best acting for Roddy McDowell and Kim Hunter in the series. The movie makes us question the scientific use of animals in research.

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Summary: They Lightened up a bit here
Review: The film has a cast of good actors ranging from Roddy McDowell and Kim Hunter, to Bradford Dillman, Sal Mineo, Natlie Trundy, and William Windom as the President of the United States. This chapter finds Cornelaus and Zira having taken Taylor's rocket ship and escaped Earth before it's destruction, only to end up on Earth 2,000 years in the past and on the run from a humanity living in fear of a future where they will be ruled by the apes. Produced by Arthur P. Jacobs. Directed by Don Taylor. Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

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Summary: The budget got smaller and it shows
Review: The third film, "Escape..." was a complete joke. They must have made this on a shoe-string budget because there were no special effects and they probably used the masks from the first two films. The plot was idiotic and I weep at thought of this nonsense.

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Summary: Can You Tell Which Are More "Human"?
Review: This film in 1971, the third episode of Planet Of The Apes series, is very comic at first but it belies the ultimate catastrophe human beings will or will not be avoided in distant future. Previous two films are about 40th century Earth where apes with extraordinary intelligece rule the planet while men there are degraded into slave status despised by apes. It just reminds me of that of humans called "yahoo" similarly despised by horses in "The Gullver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. Third of the series suddenly bring us back to present world to 1973. It might be the sort of Hollywood ploy we have seen in Jurassic Park II Lost World that made the bio-bred dinosaur to land in American soil.

Three ape scientists escaped from warring 40th century Earth landed somewhere off the American coast captured by the U.S. forces. They were first sent to the zoo but after Zira spoke "Because I loath bananas" they are suddenly welcomed as guests becoming sort of celebrity. The ape couple Zira and Cornelius are really comical and I can't help laughing at their witty remarks such as the ironical usage of "human" and "beastly". But after government committee finds out about gloomy future awaiting us mankind, they orders to have their new-born baby killed. The couple escapes with the aid of their kind animal behaviorist and circus owner who might have devised a remarkable trick we will find out at the end of the film.

Overall it is enjoyable and entertaining film.

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Summary: Not nearly as good as the first
Review: This film suffers from too few ape characters, confusion that makes it sound different than the first two films, and a reversal of which species is the hero. It was OK, but the gorilla in the zoo was SO fake-looking! Starring Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter, this film was a dissapointment.
Cornelius (Roddy McDowall),Zira (Kim Hunter), and Milo (Sal Minio) crash on Earth in the year 1973 after Milo repairs Taylor's ship. Stephanie (Natalie Trundy) and lewis, two sympathetic zoologists, help the apes after Milo is killed by a gorilla. Deniying knowladge of Taylor to all but "Stevie" and Lewis, Zira and Cornelius become celebraties-until Dr. Hesslin forces them to confess all they know. Zira, who is pregnant, is supposed to have her baby-dead. Armando (Ricardo Montalbahn) a sympathetic circus owner, helps the two apes escape. The ending will break your heart.

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Summary: Fun movie for children, but not the best apes film
Review: This film was designed more for the children to enjoy. After Beneath director Arthur Jacobs had nowhere to go with the story. So he found a way to move the series having Cornelius and Zeira and another chimpanzee with them inside of the spaceship that goes back in time to the mid 1900's! At this time Humans still can speak and apes can't speak yet. Cornelius and Zeira know about the apes future and it scares the humans. A few humans want the baby ape that Zeira is pregnant with to be destroyed so apes will not rule in the future, little do they know people should not try to alter the future!

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Summary: The Last Great "Planet of the Apes" Movie
Review: This is the last "Planet of the Apes" film to feature characters from the original 1968 classic: Cornelius and Zira. The importance of this movie is clear at the end, as we realize how the Planet of the Apes began. It is good to have Roddy McDowall back, as he was absent from "Beneath the Planet of the Apes".
I always considered that the storyline of the first film ends here, and that the next film is like a slightly different story, in which a new character takes center stage: Cornelius's and Zira's son (named Milo in this film, but inexplicably Caesar in the next one).
Anyway, a must see in the "Planet of the Apes" canon.