SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

gavin6942 The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.Although Charlton Heston showed little interest in reprising his role as Taylor, studio head Richard Zanuck thought the actor was essential to the sequel. After some disagreement with the actor's agents, Heston agreed to briefly appear with the provision that Taylor be killed and that Heston's pay go to charity. The writers decided to have Taylor disappear at the story's start and only return by the film's ending, and have a new protagonist for the major part of the story.Strangely, the switching out of heroes does not seem to have much effect. Whether it is Heston or anyone else, the lone human idea remains just as good. Now, the new humans are a strange addition. Accepting ape-people is one thing, but then to add a second mysterious race takes this another step and begins to distort the allegory. But it also creates plenty of sci-fi opportunities.

thejcowboy22 Picking up where our last movie left off we see a dejected loin clothed couple on horseback riding along the shoreline wondering where they go from here. Here I thought our second story in the Ape series of Movies from Twentieth Century Fox would have it's Star, Charlton Heston featured in the second film. Wrong as we see a demolished spacecraft in the middle of the forbidden Zone desert as Muscular Astronaut Brent (James Francicscus) emerges from the rubble uninjured . His partner we couldn't say the same for as he sustained very serious injuries to his body plus his loss of eye sight. Brent seems hopeful and grateful that the air is fit to breathe as he tries to get his bearing as to where he is in the Galaxy? Unfortunately his only crew member dies as he buries the last remains he hears a horse cry in the background and it's Nova (Linda Harrison) on horseback off in the distance. Brent approaches the mutant woman and asks questions about where he is and Brent also notices dog tags around Nova's neck as he read the inscription Taylor. Brent is part of a rescue mission to find Taylor and his crew from a previous flight. Brent goes on to ask if Taylor is alive But Nova just looks at a loss.No verbal response from baffled Nova. So Brent jumps on the Horse and tells Nova take me to Taylor. Next scene Nova points to stone styles building as they approach civilization. As Brent and Nova sneak up closer Brent watches in horror an Ape General Ursus (James Gregory)boasting about invading the Forbidden zone. Boasting about Ape doctrine that, "The only good Human is a Dead Human." Luckily the two humans dodge a pistol happy gorilla as Brent get struck by a bullet and they end up at Corneilus and Zira's residence for first aid ,food and the whereabouts of their friend Taylor. The Chimps comply with Brent giving him clothing suitable for humans as they try to leave the Ape city which is doomed in failure as they are quickly captured and marked for Target Practice. Zira unlocked the cage so the two can escape a second time. Brent and the gorilla driver tussle for a time but a tree branch settles the scores as the ape is knocked to the ground. Other Ape scouts spot the two in the far off distance and a chase ensues to a mountain range. Brent and Nova climb the mountain and enter a subterranean passage to Brent's horrific discovery that inside was once the New York City Subway system as he sees the tiled walls and Posters of a by gone era obliterated by Nuclear war wondering what had happen that all that talk about possible peace was just talk. Meanwhile Ape scouts are combing the perimeter in search of the two humans as Brent realizes he has to move further inside the tunnel and follow the Subway tracks. Doesn't take long before he hears some sort of pumping system a vibration noise and stumbles across a tiled tunnel. The two humans enter what looks like an underground Fifth Avenue. The library with the two stoned lions perch in front . A beat up old Bus and Saint Patrick's Cathedral in which Brent enters and see a human type person praying to a nuclear warhead. Brent starts a conversation and realizes that the Human is not opening his mouth yet he hears what he's saying. Two guards grab Brent as Nova is separated away. Brent is put in front of what appears to be a board of Leaders of this underground world. They ask him questions and administer pain to him telepathically. Brent is uncooperative and is afflicted pain till he tells the leaders what they want to hear. Brent insist that he take no sides with anyone. Meanwhile the apes prepare for war as they head out to the forbidden zone for domination of the territory not knowing what they are facing or fighting for. Kim Hunter and Maurise Evans Reprise their roles as Doctor's Zira and Zaius. Actor David Watson filled in admirably as Cornelius for originally cast Roddy McDowall. Very quick paced film as the two cultures meet eventually in a final confrontation for the planets dominance or total destruction. As far as sequels go, this one is necessary if you watched the first ape Movie as the story continues into this film so smoothly.

StuOz Outstanding sequel to Planet Of The Apes, in this film another human crash lands his ship on the apes world.Chuck Heston gets too little screen time, but everything else about this movie is outstanding.One of the mutants down below is played by Paul Richards who did wonderful work on TV's The Fugitive and I Spy.Leonard Rosenman had done the score to Fox's Fantastic Voyage (1966) and I think the studio was attempting to get the Fantastic Voyage- feeling going again. His score here is perfectly matched to the film.Apes is a Fox production as were the Irwin Allen sci-fi TV shows of this period. In the early part of the film, where you see the crashed wreck of the spaceship, look hard and you can see the landing legs of spaceship Jupiter 2 (from Lost In Space) in the wreckage of the ship.Later in the film, part of the underground city is in fact "The Secret City Of Limbo" seen in Land Of The Giants.Beneath The Planet Of The Apes is great film with enough retro sci- fi connections to make it super-fun as well

jake-law123 Right away, I knew this was not going to be as good as the original, (which is mostly because I love the original so much). That being said, I was curious on how they'd follow up. All I can say is, w.t.f! Every moment of plot progression from the other ship to the underground telepathic community with the nuclear bomb straight up knocked me off my ass. Some stuff was interesting, others were kind of stupid.After realizing the extinction of man, Taylor, (Charlton Heston) disappears, and his mute love interest, Nova, finds another survivor of a rescue expedition who has also landed on the planet, determined with the help of Nova to find Taylor.I gotta give this movie credit...it kept my interest. Regardless of how goofy it got at times, it made me want to figure out what was going on the whole time. It felt way more intense with the war between apes and man. It actually felt more brutal and intense than the original, though that wasn't the original's intention understandably. A few things in the writing make it sound like it was written by a hippie, talking A LOT about peace and love. I think they might have hammered in the "nuclear warfare is evil, we're all going to blow ourselves up" talk that was popular around the early 70's.The film doesn't get necessarily boring, but it takes a few too many risks, some work, some don't. Overall, it wasn't that bad. I felt genuinely worried about the main character's and their mission and all the conflicts going on. It does kind of dismiss the goings on in Ape City a little abruptly, but that's what more sequels are for I guess. Recommended if you watched and enjoyed the original.