Conquest of the Planet of the Apes(1972)

**A few guys in rubber masks throwing some chairs around does not make a global conquest.** I understand the budgetary restraints but come on. Twenty guys running amok with a chair leg is way to weak. The poster exclaims _a spectacle like never before witnessed_ and what do we get? A small crowd of men in boiler suits wielding a cabbage at the authorities. _I swear one of the Apes even threw a comb at a policeman._…

Reviewed on July 28, 2017

<em>'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'</em> is the weakest of the first four films. It's watchable, still. It shares similarities to <em>'Rise of the Planet of the Apes'</em> from the rebooted 2010s series, though it isn't quite as entertaining or convincing. Serviceable it is, however. Roddy McDowall stays in the franchise, but as a different character in Caesar. McDowall is the clear standout from the cast, the…

Reviewed on February 27, 2022

Last year, "Cornelius" and "Zira" were back in the 1970s. Now we scoot forward a few millennia and find that the Simian flu has robbed humankind of it's pets. Always in need of something to feed, comb and to take for walks, we have decided to domesticate chimps. The thing is, though, that this plan has started to spiral out of control. The animals have had just about enough of being the substitutes for our…

Reviewed on June 8, 2023

**_Oppressed apes seek freedom in a Schutzstaffel-patterned police state_** Twenty years after the deaths of Cornelius & Zira, their child (Roddy McDowall) has been raised by a circus owner in secret (Ricardo Montalbán). Meanwhile society has devolved into Nazi-like authoritarianism in which chimpanzees, orangutangs and gorillas are viewed as pets at best and, worse, trained servants. Don Murray, Hari Rhodes and…

Reviewed on March 22, 2025