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Battle for the Planet of the Apes
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Product Description
Roddy McDowall and Claude Akins star in the fifth and last chapter of the legendary Apes saga. Set in 2670 A.D. an idyllic society of man and ape is threatened by both a militant gorilla (Akins) and a tribe of still-intelligent mutant humans. Finally simmering tensions dividing the primates erupt in an apocalyptic climax. When the smoke clears the carnage is everywhere but there is hope for a new beginning for man and ape. Co-starring John Huston Paul Williams and Lew Ayres.Episodes-Bonus Features:Interactive Game TrailerSelf-Contained Planet of the Apes Web SiteWidescreen FormatInteractive MenusScene Selection and Original Theatrical TrailersFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: Unknown UPC: 024543228035 Manufacturer No: 2232803
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #21340 in DVD
- Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
- Released on: 2006-03-28
- Rating: G (General Audience)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .20 pounds
- Running time: 96 minutes
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The five films in the Planet of the Apes series are enjoyable as pure entertainment and yet substantial enough to inspire academic studies like Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture.
Loosely adapted from the novel by French author Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes was released at the height of racial and political unrest in America, adding resonance to its story of a NASA astronaut (Charlton Heston) stranded on a planet where superior apes dominate inferior human slaves. The film's final image--in which a horrified Heston realizes the fate of humankind--remains one of the most indelible in all of science fiction cinema.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) continues the original's distant future scenario, pitting militant apes against mutant humans dwelling in the subterranean ruins of New York City. Its phenomenal success spawned Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), in which simian scientists Cornelius and Zira (Roddy McDowall and Kim Hunter, reprising their roles from Planet) travel backward in time, setting the stage for the ape supremacy of the first two films. McDowall returned in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) as Caesar, the son of Cornelius, leading an ape revolution that bridges the historical gap of the previous films. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) ended the five-film cycle with McDowall again playing the chimpanzee leader Caesar, defeating gorillas and human mutants to establish the hierarchy introduced in the original film.
The Apes films present a classic what-if scenario that hasn't lost a bit of its potency. As if to prove its cultural endurance, the cycle returned to its origins with director Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes--one of the most eagerly awaited films of 2001. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
The last part...
Following the rise of the apes and some sort of man-made catastrophe (probably nuclear war) a community of apes and humans live together in peace. It's the evil human survivors of the nuclear war who still live in New York City who have an issue with the situation and all sorts of hijinks ensue.
Probably the weakest film in the series it is also the one that really requires the viewer to have a strong grasp of what went on in the other movies, especially Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Still, it IS good sci-fi!
NEVER SAY "NO" TO AN APE! HAPPY 699TH BIRTHDAY CAESAR!
This is the fifth and last installment in the POTA's series or at least in the movie theater series. I must say this again....I am a big fan of the series and I have watched them in my home theater with the new transfers now. This film isn't bad, but a bigger budget could have helped. If you are going to watch these movies, please throw out all sense of reality! I hate when people pick apart things they feel are unbelievable in movies. We're talking about "talking apes" here! I will however have to question basic continuity in these films. Every installment has continuity problems that will split your brain in two just trying to make sense of it! I will give you one example ..... this film takes place in 2670 and the last picture was in 1991.....lets do some math here. That would make Caesar 699 years old Considering he was 20 years old in "Conquest" I guess the Caesar in this picture is his great, great, great, great grand son?? If that is true how is the Governor's aid's brother still alive? They don't really explain this. I am not trying to tear these films apart,but there are loads of little tidbits of information through out the series like this. As long as you are watching the films with the right mind set, this is a good film that just should have been better. The DVD transfer is very good and the extended edition helps a bit. My rating for the series is
1) POTA by a mile! 5 stars
2) Beneath from POTA 3 stars
3) Escape the POTA 3 1/2 stars
4) Conquest for POTA 2 1/2 stars
5) Battle for The POTA 2 1/4 stars
The sequels are so close it really is a toss up with them.
In peace and harmony 
Yes exactly as the film starts and finishes with an equal society of both humans and apes and making it the best installment of the 5 films and even better than the tv series of which follows during the following year.
