I've seen the original 5 Planet of the Apes films, I remember them from back in high school or middle school or whenever I saw them. I was always into the original film, since who knows when, and true story my DVD once played at the theater I used to work at.
I did not, however, remember a single thing about the 4 other films in the series besides some of the latter half ideas of this movie. In this movie, another astronaut named Brent comes to the Ape Planet and discovers the ape civilization. He meets Nova, Zira, Conelius and all the other characters from the original movie, and pretty soon he's on the run with Nova.
This is the one in the series with the strangest turn from my memory. That's because Brent finds a group of hyper-evolved humans that speak telepathically and worship an atomic bomb. Its a choice, I guess, and the end is a huge weird moment that does not speak to 3 more sequels.
The effects in this movie are okay until the end, where the slashed budget of the movie is apparent. It's still not that bad looking, and I enjoyed the movie a good amount. It's not that which makes the movie suffer too much, if anything the plot is what sinks this movie. So much of this movie is cryptic for the sake of being cryptic and then when the big reveal comes, the plot is so completely stupid, and on top of that acted poorly? It's just unfortunate.
I was interested enough to put the next movie onto my library queue however, so take that as you will. 3 stars.
