Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) Reviews & Ratings
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes reviews
Escape from the Planet of the Apes holds a 6.4/10 average from 1,275 TMDB ratings.
**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 deciding on talking just a little while longer. These actors must have had sore tongues after the film was completed. Some of them h…
— Potential Kermode (6/10)
A very good sequel. <em>'Escape from the Planet of the Apes'</em> is a clear improvement on (the good) <em>'Beneath the Planet of the Apes'</em> 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 so! Neat to see Roddy McDowall return to his role from <em>'Planet of the Apes'</em>, while co-star Kim Hunter continues o…
— r96sk (8/10)
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 of their craft, they must sigh the sigh of all aliens whose first glimpse of man is a man with loads of braid and no b…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)
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.
Movies like Escape from the Planet of the Apes
If you enjoyed Escape from the Planet of the Apes, these movies have a similar feel:
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
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- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
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- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
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