Absolutely Brilliant!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Despite a conclusion showing the planet's destruction, 20th Century Fox requested another sequel, turning the films into a franchise.Arthur P. Jacobs recruited Paul Dehn to a new script with a brief telegram: "Apes exist. Sequel required." Dehn immediately started work on what became the third film titled Escape from the Planet of the Apes. The film would once again change directors, Don Taylor was hired to direct and had a greatly diminished budget of $2.5 million dollars, which required a tight production schedule.In the film, Zira and Cornelius are initially accepted by American society, but human fears that their child will bring about the destruction they predict to lead to their dates.Compared to it's predecessors, Escape dwelt more heavily on themes of racial conflict, which became a primary focus through the rest of the series. The film opened on May 21, 1971, less than a year after the previous film and was well received by critics. It also performed really well at the box office, though not as strongly as the first two. Fox ordered a third sequel.The story is just great, especially after the second film's poor story and the writer did a great job with creating this sequel's story. The direction and action is just amazing and cool. The film is really quick and amazing, but I just ran along with it.The acting is just amazing in this one and the actors are just amazing. Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall are good in there roles. Natalie Trundy is really good and is fantastic in her role. Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban and Eric Braeden are really good in their new roles and they are fantastic and amazing.Overall, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET of the APES is really amazing and fantastic and it is one movie that definitely makes up for the previous film.8/10.

(71%) An enjoyable, well-made, and very 70's ape movie that turns a full cycle on the original's brilliant premise. The writing throughout is really quite sharp, and the "apes" do come across as more than a little bit charming and likable which is thanks mainly to the good performances of the heavily made up actors. And just like the original there's a ton of political meaning and truth (government agencies are real bastards and are not to be trusted under any reason), and the ending is pretty harrowing and brave for a mass market movie. Overall well worth a look for almost everybody as I was taken by how watchable it is.

Cornelius and Zira (Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter) arrive on Earth in 1973, having escaped before the climax of 'Beneath' in the spaceship from the first Apes movie. They face similar treatment to what the humans faced in their world. Before long it is discovered that Zira is pregnant, which doesn't sit well with many humans, who fear that intelligent apes will bring about man's demise.The first Planet of the Apes was undeniably a classic. The second was a good sequel but not on the level of the first. This third movie doesn't reach the level of the first, either, but comes closest of any of the sequels. It ingeniously flips the script and places two intelligent apes in our world, allowing for some clever commentary. There's more humor in this Apes film than in the others, as well. McDowall and Hunter are fantastic. It's amazing how they overcome the limitations that wearing masks can put on an actor. Eric Braeden is good as the villain. It's a very smart movie. Yes, it tinkers with the continuity of the first two movies some but that didn't get in the way of me enjoying it. It's the best of the Planet of the Apes sequels.

"Escape from the Planet of the Apes" is a nice addition to the series. I watched it for the first time last night, after the previous films, and have come to the conclusion that it's good, but not as good as the others. First, the only gripe I have is the hole in the story. Zeira states that Apes where pets of humans in the past, and that through the centuries the Apes then revolted.However, in the previous movies none of the apes knew that humans had ever had any intelligence. The question is, how could this be the way the Apes came to take over when none of the Apes had known this in the previous movies. Zeira even in the third movie sates that it's written in the sacred scrolls, "God has created Apes in his own image." That is contradictory to the idea that they came to power my an overthrow of the humans. This aside it serves as a nice transition further into the series.