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 Film Review - Beneath The Planet of the Apes

As sequels go, Beneath The Planet of the Apes falls into the natural trap of movie series. The trap is that sequels tend to be just a reshoot of the previous film. In this case, an astronaut crashes on a planet ruled by apes, where humans don't talk.

Beneath The Planet of the Apes gets bogged down too much in the early parts of the film trying to explain to the people who didn't watch the first film what has been happening. Hey! Make them buy their own ticket to the first movie! Get on with it!

When director Ted Post finally does get on with it, we find there are other humans who can talk living on the Earth of the future. This is a very good story turn, since none of them are Charlie Chaplin. These humans are mutants who have been affected by the radiation that destroyed human civilization. Since they're kind of ugly, they wear rubber masks which they only take off when they pray to their god ... a nuclear bomb capable of destroying the world.

Beneath The Planet of the Apes does progress a story, but it doesn't progress it enough. We still are left wanting to know exactly what brought down man.

Sucks and Blows!

Film Facts

    Cast
  • James Franciscus
  • Kim Hunter
  • Maurice Evans
  • Linda Harrison
  • Paul Richards
  • Victor Buono
  • James Gregory
  • Jeff Corey
  • Natalie Trundy
  • Thomas Gomez
  • David Watson
  • Don Pedro Colley
  • Tod Andrews
  • Gregory Sierra
  • Eldon Burke
  • Lou Wagner
  • Charlton Heston
  • Paul Frees

Directed by Ted Post

Released in 1970

MPAA Rating: G

Reviewed by Mongo