LogFAQs > #914140601

"There is an unbridled insanity to the last act of this movie that saves it from ranking dead last on the list. This starts out as a boring by-the-numbers retread of the first movie, except instead of Charlton Heston, we have perhaps the least charismatic leading man since Michael Beck's performance in Xanadu. Things don't improve when the allegory begins this time we're taking on Vietnam protests, and the atomic bomb, and we're going to lay the message on so thick it makes the original movie look subtle. Sadly, Roddy McDowall was busy for this one, so we have a bad sound-alike playing a Cornelius who's mostly relegated to the background. A lot of the other cast members return, but you really get the impression that they don't really want to be in this movie certainly not Heston, who barely shows up until the third act so he can get killed. Of course, killing him off doesn't end up mattering at all, because then they kill off the entire planet with a nuke.

Which leads me to the thing that propels this above the dregs of the series: the third act. This material may not be any better than what preceded it in terms of quality, but goddamn is the last third of this movie hilarious. The scenes in the chapel, with the weird atonal music and the prayers to the Almighty Bomb, are straight comedy gold." ~KBM

"This film had the unenviable task of following up the original masterpiece without the full involvement of its star. Charlton Heston agreed to do the film only if his scenes could be completed within two weeks and that his character would be killed off in the end. The producers obliged him by destroying the whole planet. Beneath the Planet of the Apes manages to cram in more anti-human sentiment by focusing on a group of irradiated mutants living below the planets surface. A collection of fools who worship the potential beginning of new life as well as the end of the current mess via the atomic bomb (a.k.a. The Alpha and The Omega). If you thought the original films Statue of Liberty conclusion was a bit grim then Beneath would leave you shuffling out the theater in total despair. This is the only film in the original set of five to be filmed without Roddy McDowell, and his presence is absolutely missed. James Franciscus is an adequate stand-in for Charlton Heston, but his heroism is maybe just as generically bland as Mark Wahlbergs stranded air force captain." ~Scarlet

"Come forth and drink the waters of the Glow, for this ancient weapon of war is our salvation, it is the very symbol of Atom's glory! Behold! He's coming with the clouds! And every eye shall be blind with his glory! Every ear shall be stricken deaf to hear the thunder of his voice! Yea, your suffering shall exist no longer; it shall be washed away in Atom's Glow, burned from you in the fire of his brilliance." ~Confessor Cromwell

"This movies pacing was just WEIRD. I mean, I GET that you have the entire first movie to world-build and set things upbut it feels like this movie jumps right into the deep end as far as plot goes. New guy arrives on the planet in search of Taylor, and he finds Nova. They go to the ape city, they meet Zira and Cornelius, they get captured, and they escape. The pair find an underground city of humans with deformed faces and psychic abilities, and then the apes march on the city and easily overwhelm it with superior force, only for Taylor to nuke the whole planet. Yeahthat sounds quick because it is. This movie introduces an entire race of humans unseen in the first film, makes them slightly evil, and then wipes them out in rapid succession. Really, the only positive to this film is that Brent is hotter than Taylor ever wasbut thats it." ~Inviso
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I'll just go back to gifs. Not like the winner was gonna click my topic.
https://imgur.com/SXyi7uX