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ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES - REVIEW

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So, ok, you know how the end of Beneath The Planet Of The Apes was pretty, without spoiling anything, final? I mean, an ending like that definitely doesn't lend itself to any follow-ups so the fact that this sequel, Escape From The Planet Of The Apes , exists is something of a miracle. Or maybe just a desperate attempt at breathing life into a franchise that pretty much said its last word already. Alright, so expect some spoilers. Get this: as it turns out, the planet did explode like we saw in Beneath BUT Cornelius, Zira and some other ape doctor happened to be in Charlton Heston's spaceship and the bomb happened to trigger some kind of temporal "whoosh" thereby propelling the spaceship back in time over a thousand years with its crew completely unharmed. So already you've got a plot which sounds about as ludicrous as that fourth Star Trek movie plus Jerry Goldsmith's score sounds like something out of a goofy Roger Moore 007 outing and the tone