A*P*E

1976 "See APE * defy the JAWS of giant shark * destroy a teeming City * demolish an Ocean Liner * vanquish Monster Reptile"
2.6| 1h27m| PG| en
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A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country. Chaos ensues as the ape kidnaps her and rampages through Seoul.

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
gizmomogwai A terrible film on every single level, A*P*E (cleverly described by one critic as "not very O*R*I*G*I*N*A*L") was nevertheless a bright spot of my day. The scenes with the actors were often slow and painful, with the odd smack of unintentionally funny dialogue ("You're asking me to be gentle for a rape scene!"- paraphrasing). But every time I saw the man in the cheap monkey suit, I couldn't help but smile. It doesn't exactly lumber, doesn't exactly hop, doesn't exactly move in a monkey-like agile way either. He just moves along, and gets to play in miniature villages. It's hilarious! The battle with the giant snake was also anti-climactic. He picks it up and simply throws it, like a baby learning to throw a toy. And when I finally saw that legendary "prehistoric creature gives the finger" scene, I was over the moon. How ridiculous this Gigantopithecus knows the gesture! Perhaps he picked it up from those archers who inexplicably began firing at him for no reason ("Monkey see, monkey do".) The special effects in the King Kong 1976 remake are nearly as bad as this, but that movie took itself a lot more seriously than this, which is at least one point you can give to A*P*E. Seeing our monkey man flapping his arms at the helicopters, as if mocking swimming moves in air, got long and repetitive fast. Still, for unintentional humour, particularly for King Kong fans, look no further.
Flak_Magnet This is a great bad movie and many of the scenes are hilarious. If you'd enjoy watching a 60-sec slow-motion scene where a guy in a gorilla costume wrestles an obviously dead shark, thrashing it around and pretending to be in the throes of death, look no further. This whole movie is full of great scenes like that, and if it weren't for an overly drawn out love story subplot, "A.P.E." would be a 5-star unintentional comedy. You get a little bit of everything in this South Korean flick: "Godzilla"-style miniature sets, toy model animals and people, remote control helicopters, firework explosions, and of course, a guy in a gorilla suit. The plot is not important, really, and the film gets right down to brass tacks after about 2-min of backstory. Just know that there is a 35-ft tall ape, and he is going to rampage Korea. Throw in an American actress (Joanna Kerns, of "Growing Pains" fame), her reporter boyfriend, and a pair of Army officers bent on killing the beast, and you have "A.P.E." The direction and editing are sometimes stunningly inept, resulting in several great "WTF moments," including my favorite when a character is hanging off the outside door of a moving jeep, for seemingly no reason. Anyhow, I could go on forever with this one. As far as bad movies go, "A.P.E." is a definite keeper. You are going to get laughs out of this one.
slideon A*P*E is both stupid and follows the King Kong storyline, and is probably the worst movie I have ever seen.Everything from King Kong and even Godzilla is copied by A*P*E. 1 - The ape escapes from an oil tanker. 2 - Giant footprints are found. 3 - They want to show the Ape off to the public. 4 - Ape kidnaps girl. 5 - Girl feels somehow attracted to the Ape. 6 - Army attacks Ape.Besides having a duplicate plot, A*P*E has many technical problems as well.1 - The Ape is 36 feet tall, but the shark and snake are the size of him. 2 - He towers over buildings, but he's 36 feet tall. 3 - The Ape throws the snake at the camera, knocking it down. 4 - You can see the Ape actor's shirt underneath the costume. 5 - Tons of plastic toys in this film.And you can tell the actor who played the Ape is pretty angry over him playing the role. He flips off the camera at one point.A*P*E fails as a movie, but as a comedy, it's really good. Get a bunch of friends and do a MST3K kind of thing.
KevinTurner This video is probably the worst film ever made. I have a feeling that the director and script writer wanted to make the worst film of all time.If that is the case they did it. Now a 36 foot ape that is in Korea. It kills jaws,flicks off a helichopter,does the disco,and gets killed by annoying soldiers that stick thier gun barrel right next to the lens of the camera all with out making a noise mind you. I think the ape doesn't have a voice box or tongue.It's seriously the worst film ever. I have this film at my house and i paid $10 for it about 13 years agon when i was 5 cuase i liked king kong and stuff right so i thought hey looks good. when I got home and put it in i couldn't watch more then 5 minutes of it. A 5 year old i tell you couldn't satnd it Barney is better this peice of poo.