Escape from the Planet of the Apes

The same shock value of the opening sequence - and the twist at the end with plenty of hard questions in the middle. A worthy successor.

There's some groan-worthy cheese & silliness (that would likely appeal to children who might be less cognizant of the apocalypse/extinction themes looming over this) in this third chapter especially in the earlier comic scenes of the apes acclimating to our culture (which has always been cartoonishly not very different from theirs). But it's no wonder this series left such a mark - screenwriter Dehn delivers yet another radically different, unpredictable, formula-free, film from what came before

I slightly prefer Conquest, but Escape has the best ending beside the original out of the first five films. Could have benefited by toning down the goofy comedy in the first half.

After the rather drastic finale of the first sequel, the "Planet of the Apes" franchise avoids the dead end by setting "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" in 1973. This time the talking apes are the visitors to the human society: it plays like an - interesting - reverse version of the classic first film, only more humorous (for the biggest part), but also, just like the first sequel, cheaper and a lot less weighty from a philosophical aspect.

Very good and surprisingly well made & sweet

Rated a little higher than I should have just because of how crushing the ending is, and how much it affected me as a young, impressionable child.

I liked this quite a bit. Considering how the prior movie ended it couldn't have been easy to write another sequel. I'll admit it shifts in tone is very jarring, but it didn't bother me too much as I felt it made a fair bit of sense. I thought the silly fun parts were just that and the dramatic and tense moments were effective as well. Cornelius and Zira were great.

Wow - this one is Star Trek IV gone wild. There is some moral message in here about genocide...or would it be Xenocide in this case?

A far superior film to "Beneath...", which extends the universe instead of mocking it. In focusing on the complexities of time travel and moral decisions, it loses all scale and ends up rather "small", producing a final twist worthy of the series.

Given the seeming impossibility of writing a follow on to "Beneath," and given the extreme budget stinginess of Fox at the time, this movie is an amazing accomplishment. Flipping the script of the original Planet of the Apes, with humans in the role of the Ape Council, there is a bizarre mix of the silly with underlying dread. I can't entirely explain it, but for me it actually works.

I personally feel this is the low point of the original series, though there are some good scenes. It's just a bit too silly one minute then too paranoid the next.

It's a tick better than the previous going: more interesting and creative. But these movies are now firmly in "TV movie of the week" level of production and some of the scenes - dressing up in 70s fashion - are absurd.

The last good apes film. Although it does kinda blend into the following film...

Fun leftfield turn.

Some good twists on the Ape conventions, with an eye for characterization. Cornelius and Zira are more fleshed out than any of the previous humans before them. The script's plot is a little forced but it's done admirably. It's comparatively small scale finale is the most soulful of the three.

Over the top silly but kinda fun.

humans are silly brutes as have ever been

What is this shit?

* Casting, Acting : 6.5 * Script : 7.5 * Directing, Aura : 5 * Ease of Viewing : 7 * Naked Eye : 5.5

I've seen it 4 times, but can't remember it at all. Really bland.

Zira and Cornelius are pretty funny put into the context of human life, but it would make a better sitcom than a movie.

After all there is new life for the POTA series (let's call POTA mk II). If one forgets about the holes in the plot this is a highly enjoyable ride that totally justifies the next two films.

Because I positively LOATHE bananas!

Awkward and possessing an often hilariously 70s out-of-place soundtrack, but infinitely better than the second instalment. Is this the Star Trek IV of the Apes franchise?

Escape from the Planet of the Apes is one of the most welcome departures any film in a series takes from the rest of the franchise. Very light on its sci-fi elements and hand-waving of the last movie, Escape offers viewers a grounded story and a new direction that the rest of the original movies follow.

This changes the narrative from the previous movies by making two (okay actually three, but one is killed off quickly) beloved apes from the previous movies (Zira and Cornelious) travel to the current time. The first half of this is the most funny and lighthearted of the series. But things quickly turn bleaker when humans starts to hunt the talking apes and their unborn child. The ensuing escape from this hunt unfortunate isn't as suspenseful as it could have been.

More interesting concepts here than in the last film, with future ape folk time traveling back to 1970s America. Monkey makeup aside this is definitely an oldschool bleak 70s sci fi flick, with initial curiosity and embrace of the apes turning to suspicion and violence. Cheesy at spots but ultimately involving.

The finale is crude and harsh, but everything that comes before is messy enough to make you feel a bit bored. With Cornelius and Zira as the main characters, they should have achieved a better film than this.

Money is the only motivation for another sequel, and the lame attempts at self-deprecation can't hide that. The parallels to the ethnic cleansing of Ethiopian jews in Israel are disturbing.

Top badass moment? Infinite regression - two minutes of great but ultimately pointless technobabble. There’s no other way to put it; this film has aged, very badly. For every bit that's still okay, there’re two that're now just embarrassing. The script/tone wobble all over the place, whilst most characters behave with less believability than teens in an isolated cabin. I was glad when the vivisectionist monkey with her stupid, overgrown handbag, got killed. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Like Beneath the Planet of the apes, a slow drudge through hamfisted politics and philosophy is saved by a wild ride of a third act.

The second-best movie in the series despite its low budget and a premise that's hard to swallow. The ending is quite hard-hitting even today.

The first movie is great, and the rest in the saga all have some nice part and then the most of them are from bad to decent. The best part on this one is from the beginning to the trial (and the trial specially). The rest in this case it's mostly decent.

so so, now following the law of diminishing returns quite admirably

I enjoyed this installment. I know most people dislike this one and all the other sequels, and rightly so, but as a kid, I liked it.

"Planet of The Apes" reaches quality of TV series with this film. While the silly first half is decent for the laughs, the second half is mix of drama and action, and is really horrible.

Cornelius and Zira are great characters, but this is not a very good movie.

Makes wonderful use of the "Strangers in a Strange Land" theme.

Interesting film .

I liked this better than the previous film. The premise is better, and could have been great. Unfortunately, they trade in the mistakes in the last film with new ones, which is a shame, and somehow made me long back to the horrid previous film which actually had a good atmosphere. It's too quirky and lighthearted to fit in with the rest of the series and to make it's own plot work. It really feels out of place. It has some good ideas, but it has too many flaws to be excusable. The end is good.

Like any Ape movie after the first, there was absolutely no need whatsoever for this to be made. It is, however, actually quite good. I enjoyed the lighthearted mood, and the ending was just fantastic.

The first half hour of the film i was entertained, but the rest of the movie was rather boring. It also has a "cheap" feel to it.

Clearly, Arthur P Jacobs saw dollar signs and not commentary. Escape is a thrilling excursion for Cornelius and Zira, but little more. Somewhere in pre-production there was the seed for another classic. But that never made it past a brainstorming session. The end result is still a fast-paced thriller centered on two very good characters, but there's again a hollowness in comparing it to the original.

At this point this is playing out like a sitcom out of ideas. ... and there were two more movies!

The Apes mentioned in the first Planet of The Apes movie that they have not learned how to fly...so how in blazes do they create the spaceship that sets up this movie? Boy I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

weird lightheartedness at the beginning...

A fairly good sci-fi story.

Escape moves the action from serious and bleak to light-hearted and mixed satire. Thankfully this was exactly what the Apes series needed at the time. Endearing ape characters and tongue in cheek writing make for an entertaining and even poignant third entry that not only vastly outshines the second film, but in many ways is equal to the original.

My favorite of the series other than the original. It is fun and funny when it should be and very serious, dramatic, and intense when it needs to be. Really, really great. Very tragic and intense finale.

While the first two films puts humans in an ape world, Escape switches the role. What you get is frustratingly stupid humans worried about the future mixed with some very zany 70s montages. Zira shopping is quite funny. Then, of course, the ending provides a sudden somber note that is devastating.