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Escape From The Planet of The Apes

1971

Don Taylor

Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban ...

5.4

4,666

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Adventure The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society, but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.

	Author	Review
United States	The Playlist	"'Escape from Planet of the Apes' is, in fact, a superior film in many ways to the first, but is lacking that film’s freshness and originality. Still: an undeniable high watermark for the franchise."	POS
United States	Keith Phipps TV Guide	"'Escape From The Planet Of The Apes' gets the series back on track, sending three apes back to the 20th century for a story that begins comically and ends in fear and loathing."	POS
United States	The New Yorker	"The utterance of the three gentle chimpanzees in Escape from the Planet of the Apes tends to blow you out of the cinema seat, not so much because they can talk as because they all speak the same language."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' is an excellent film, almost as good as the original 'Planet of the Apes'"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"Former actor Don Taylor directs smoothly and efficiently and elicits fine performances from the cast, highlighted by the warm relationship between Zira, (a touching Kim Hunter) and Cornelius"	POS
United Kingdom	Sam Toy Empire	"With the potency of the central idea diminishing, Escape still manages the tricky move of carrying on a story that really should have ended with the last film, while setting up the series' mythology (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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