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| ACTORS: | James Franciscus, Kim Hunter |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Ted Post |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 26 May, 1970 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | G (General Audience) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Science Fiction |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 086162054709 |
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Customer Reviews of Beneath the Planet of the Apes
The most horrifying of all Apes films The sequal to the original Planet of the Apes, this film does not have music in the right areas, and is somewhat rushed. But overall, an excellent film, and a classic like the original. Starring James Franciscus and Linda Harrison, this is a very fine work of art.
NASA has sent a spaceship to rescue Colonel Taylor (Charlton Heston) from the first film. This rescue ship also crashes, and the commander dies. Now alone, the astronaut Brent (James Franciscus) finds Nova (Linda Harrison), Taylor's mate from the first film. From flashbacks, we know Taylor vanished. Novan leads Brent to Ape City, where the gorilla General Ursus (James Gregory) is planning to lead his troops to the forbidden zone. Brent meets Zira (Kim Hunter) and Cornelius (Now played by David Watson), Taylor's simian supporters. They help Brent make his way to the forbidden zone. Brent and Nova are captured by human mutants who have a Cobalt Bomb that can destroy the world. Dr. Zaius (Marice Evans) and Ursus lead the gorilla army to destroy the mutant civilization. Brent finds Taylor, and the two friends must stop apes from killing humanity; and stop humanity from destroying the world. With a twist ending even more terrifying than the original, this film has some horror in it as well as science fiction. The films main stars are James Franciscus, Linda Harrison, Kim Hunter, and Maurice Evans, with guest star Charlton Heston as Taylor.
A good APE sequel...
Ted Post does a commendable job in making "BENEATH" the definitive Ape sequel. James Franciscus is fine as NASA astronaut sent on the time-warp trail of MIA Commander Taylor (Charlton Heston). Kim Hunter is sympathetically engaging as Dr. Zira and Linda Harrison ...looking stunned and stunning...reprises the "Eve" role of Nova. James Gregory is excellently menacing as the APES' premier militarist, General Ursus (Tim Roth in the Tim Burton version is his usual psychotic, serial-killer self). In the post-Apocalytic world originally imagined in PLANET of the APES, mankind seems to have devolved into speechless retardates and beasts of burden. BENEATH proposes survival of humanoid mtuants who are telepaths and "religious" fanatics (They worship THE BOMB: their Alpha & Omega; in perverse parody of Catholic Mass). The film is well-paced and effectively ironic in its "satire" on the human condition. The ending, an epic attack by Ape Legions against FORBIDDEN ZONE "inhumans", answers the question emblazoned on original BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES posters: How Long Can Man Survive...Half Human, Half Beast?
Beneath the first Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes has Nova and new astronaut Brent searching for Taylor, who is lost in the Forbidden Zone. They are only a few steps ahead of the gorilla army, who are assembling to eradicate what's left of humanity. Nova and Brent go underground into an old subway system, where they find a race of telepathic mutants worshipping an atomic bomb as a God.
After being captured by the mutants, Nova and Brent find Taylor himself is a captive. After almost killing each other because of the mutants' powers on their minds, they set out to stop the bomb from going up.
During the gorilla army assault on the mutants' lair, Brent and Nova are killed, and Taylor is seriously injured. The death of his only human companions make Taylor set off the bomb himself, destroying Earth for good.
None of the Planet of the Apes movies are known for happy endings, but this one is the darkest of them all. Taylor is back only as a cameo, and even that can't save this movie from a bad ending. What's the point of having a conflict between apes and man if the only resolution is everyone getting killed?
The overall concept for this movie wasn't bad: Finding a new civilization separate from the Ape culture, seeing more ruins from Humanity, etc. But the execution was dark and only got darker. If you want to watch a nice, relaxing movie, look elsewhere.