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Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter reprise their roles from the original Planet of the Apes in this third chapter of the Apes saga. Two intelligent simians from the future, Cornelius (McDowall) and Zire (Hunter) travel to present-day Earth. They become instant sensations, wined and dined and treated like celebrities - until a high-level plot forces them to run for their lives.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes has a lot in common with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. To be fair, Escape came 15 years ahead of the Star Trek movie, but bear with me on this comparison.
In both films, here are some of the things that happen (no spoilers):
Characters we've met in a previous film are sent back in time.
They land in 1970s/80s USA where Americans find it very hard to believe their true origins.
The culture shock of these characters turns the film into a satire about modern-day American life, and the science fiction elements take a back seat.
Some of this satire is played for laughs.
Because it's played for laughs it's the most light-hearted of the whole series of films and some of the more serious fans find it a bit annoying.
After a while the movie changes from being a comedy to being a fairly bog-standard chase story.
OK so there are no whales in this movie, but it seemed like a good comparison when I thought of it earlier.
"Escape" has very little in common with the previous two films. The budget is obviously much smaller, there are only a handful of apes throughout the entire film. You can see the point that it was trying to make- trying to 'flip back' the central Planet Of The Apes twist where apes talk and humans are dumb- but where you end up is back with a fairly bog-standard film of an alien arrival who appears, then induces fear in the population but pathos with the audience, then gets chased around a lot.
It's worth watching as part of the series, but this film is from the days when sequels were generally not as good as the original and this one was no exception.
In both films, here are some of the things that happen (no spoilers):
Characters we've met in a previous film are sent back in time.
They land in 1970s/80s USA where Americans find it very hard to believe their true origins.
The culture shock of these characters turns the film into a satire about modern-day American life, and the science fiction elements take a back seat.
Some of this satire is played for laughs.
Because it's played for laughs it's the most light-hearted of the whole series of films and some of the more serious fans find it a bit annoying.
After a while the movie changes from being a comedy to being a fairly bog-standard chase story.
OK so there are no whales in this movie, but it seemed like a good comparison when I thought of it earlier.
"Escape" has very little in common with the previous two films. The budget is obviously much smaller, there are only a handful of apes throughout the entire film. You can see the point that it was trying to make- trying to 'flip back' the central Planet Of The Apes twist where apes talk and humans are dumb- but where you end up is back with a fairly bog-standard film of an alien arrival who appears, then induces fear in the population but pathos with the audience, then gets chased around a lot.
It's worth watching as part of the series, but this film is from the days when sequels were generally not as good as the original and this one was no exception.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
This is where the "POTA" franchise takes a very definite turn for the worse. After the memorable debut, and the acceptable follow-up, we get this anaemic third episode. Only really worth having, as such, if it's part of the complete film box-set. (So long as it's not too pricey, of course.)
"Escape From The Planet Of The Apes" retains a certain curiosity, for me, in that it features a rare cinematic appearance of Eric Braeden. After having been known as Hans Gudegast in "The Rat Patrol" and prior to him becoming a mega soap star as the character of Victor Newman in "The Young And Restless". Hardly, however, something which is likely to draw in the casual purchaser of such an ordinary film!
"Escape From The Planet Of The Apes" retains a certain curiosity, for me, in that it features a rare cinematic appearance of Eric Braeden. After having been known as Hans Gudegast in "The Rat Patrol" and prior to him becoming a mega soap star as the character of Victor Newman in "The Young And Restless". Hardly, however, something which is likely to draw in the casual purchaser of such an ordinary film!
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
It all starts as the funniest comedy ever. Three Chimpanzees escape the holocaust on their planet in their time in Taylor's spaceship and land in California. The first half is the meeting of those three apes with Americans who do not want to believe they can speak but are fascinated and under the charm of the extraordinary thing it represents. It is hilarious because every single sentence has a double meaning when we shift from man's point of view to the chimpanzees'. But that funny atmosphere turns sour very fast because the men who interrogate them, namely the CIA, believe them and see the future in their tale, a future of total reversal of the world order, of the natural order, the apes at the top and human beings having regressed to the bottom. And it is the hunt and the killing. That ending is like the proof that what the apes have said is going to be true. There is really no future for man on this planet and in this life. Apart from that this film is kind of sad. It represents a strange world, the world of 1973 of frightened human beings who cannot see things the way they could be but only the way they should be according to their own desire of domination. The President could be different but he is impotent and no one obeys him anyway.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
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