Thursday 20 October 2011

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (4 Stars)

Just when we thought it was over, the story continues. In the second film we see the Earth being destroyed. You can't get more final than that. Now we see Cornelius and Zira arriving back in 1974 in Taylor's spaceship that they've managed to repair. It takes a massive portion of suspension of disbelief to accept this premise, but apart from that the film is quite good.

We see the tables turned. In the 40th Century monkeys had been the Earth's rulers, back in our time Cornelius and Zira are kept in cages. Their existence is tolerated, but Zira is pregnant and the American president forbids the baby to be born. Does he smell a temporal paradox already? A good film that paves the way for the fourth part.

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