It works fairly well as the central movie of the franchise but will have little to offer non-devotees.
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06/13/01
Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:18
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: One of the better Planet of the Apes sequels, Escape is more character-driven than the previous films, and more touching as a result.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: In the future, the Earth is ruled by a race of highly-evolved simians who supplanted humans after a nuclear holocaust. But when the ape-led Earth is threatened with total annihilation, a trio of... [More]
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Ricardo Montalban, Sal Mineo
Director: Don Taylor
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Reviews for Escape From the Planet of the Apes
No review available.
12/06/02
The last of the "Ape" sequels that's worth watching.
07/15/04
No review available.
09/07/03
No review available.
10/07/02
Brings just enough of a twist to the series' conventions.
07/26/02
Passable entertainment, but it's no fun watching the likable, witty Cornelius and Zira become hairy martyrs.
04/09/07
No review available.
09/13/05
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10/08/05
The best of the all of the sequels.
08/01/01
No review available.
07/26/02
No review available.
07/17/03
One of the better new movies in town, and better in a genre -- science-fiction -- that at the crucial middle level where the history of movies is made, if not written, has recently been not so much bad as invisible.
05/10/05
This second sequel serves as little more than a light appetizer with a memorable and poignant ending.
01/01/00
feels like a quickie insert that is needed to progress the larger narrative, but doesn't have enough meat on it to deserve its own film
09/15/02
Regarded by some as the best of the Planet of the Apes sequels, maybe even on a par with the 1968 Charlton Heston original itself, this third Apes movie breathes fresh air into [the] series.
01/01/00
No review available.
09/26/02
It's a long way down from even the second in the series.
01/26/06
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