Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes
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Directed by: Don Taylor

Overview

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Reviews (4)

  • Potential Kermode (Rated: 6)

    A picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape.

    Indeed.

    Talk, talk and some more talk. Then they all decide to talk some more - taking a break for a little more talking - before finally decidin...

  • r96sk (Rated: 8)

    A very good sequel.

    'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' is a clear improvement on (the good) 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' and isn't that far adrift from the 1968 original. The plot is out there but they make it believable, while the ending is quite something - unexpectedly ...

  • r96sk (Rated: 8)

    A very good sequel.

    'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' is a clear improvement on (the good) 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' and isn't that far adrift from the 1968 original. The plot is out there but they make it believable, while the ending is quite something - unexpectedly ...

  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)

    Now quite how, we don't know, but suffice to say that "Cornelius" (Roddy McDowall) and "Zira" (Kim Hunter) manage to find themselves a spaceship and travel back in time to an Earth when humans - here, more specifically, a bunch of rather numb-sculled Americans - rule their continent. On stepping out...

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