Movie Review - Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Not quite as good the original but still a brilliant film. This follows the story of the apes coming back to Earth's past. First thing I find hard to believe is the Gorilla being able to reach through any cage bars. Humans wouldn't put a Gorilla who is capable of ripping a human apart in a cage which it's arm could even reach through a tiny bit of. So Dr Milo getting killed is a stupid and pointless plot device (Yes, we know the actor playing him wanted to be written out quickly as he didn't like the costume, but it could have been done in a much better way). Watching the humanization of the apes under 1970's Earth culture is quite amusing.

The apes escaping once they have been sentenced to death is purely instinct. Cornelius didn't mean to kill the man feeding them, he's an ape, he doesn't understand how much more powerful he is than a human. He and Zira are just protecting their child. The nice little baby swap in the circus where we meet the charming Ricardo Montelbahn (who will go onto be Khan Noonien Singh and run Fantasy Island), the apes are helped into freedom. The adult chimp in the circus is a very bad make-up job over a human actor. Zira stupidly leaves her carpet bag behind but how the military found them so quickly and so precisely still baffles me.

The cops are dressed very much like the Gorilla soldiers in the first film, or at least I think so. Anyway, The guy saying turn around or I'll shoot you. Then just shooting her anyway. Idiot, why not just shoot her and avoid the verbal bravado. Obviously Cornelius was going to shoot him with the gun he'd been given (Well it had to have some purpose, didn't it?) and Zira throwing the baby over the side to shock of the female Dr who wasn't to know that wasn't their baby. This fits in nicely in the Apes film series. Lots of people ask how the apes got the ship as Taylors ship sank, and Brents ship crashed. Something that is glossed over and never answered but never mind. Watch it, enjoy it. Shame about the badly looped ape to make it talk.