I love the fact that Taylor, who thought man had not learned from its past not only finds out what man did to himself but it is Taylor who is the one who finally destroys the planet Earth.

Good to see someone rate Beneath highly

I like how in this review he doesn't look at the faults of the filmmaking but at the story and the historical and physiological messages

I loved James Gregory as Ursus and loved the lead Mutant. When they pray to the bomb it's chilling.

I love the first film the most, but Beneath is such a badass film that it almost tops it.

It wasn't a "Children's" movie. The modern ratings system was just starting out. they hadn't quite figured it out yet.

Slyxyx we love you. Your commentary is always insightful and a pleasure to read. Thanks for being you!

I use to sneak down stairs and watch them on late night tv. Love them everyone of them even the tv shows

SCI-FI MASTERPIECE: Visionary and Prophetic, even with some "Esoteric" Elements (AGARTHA and the lost cities in the Gobi Desert). One of the most DARKEST Science-Fiction Film ever made. AMAZING Just Planets Of apes (1968) - Beneath Planets of apes(1970) ...The following sequels are not necessary

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is one of my fav movies. I remember seeing it for the first time when I was about 12 and on Television, they aired the 1st and 2nd films back to back with an hour break. I was blown away particularly by the shocking ending with the statue of liberty then world blowing up. I felt speechless at first, a fantastic movie experience to feel like that. I''ve see Escape, Conquest and Battle too which I like alot.

As a 70's kid, that death scene was intense... The next movie's ending with the baby monkey's voice on loop crying "Mama!!" was even more so...imo

I think depending on how you look at it Beneath is either one of the best sequels to the original or one of the worst! Still to this day my thoughts are pretty mixed on all the sequels; none of them really need to exist as the original is perfect on it's own, and they all have good points and bad points!

It may have been mentioned but the third film, "Escape from the Planet of the Apes," derives much of its plot and story from the original novel "Planet of the Apes" but cleverly switches the scenario from humans landing on a modern, industrialized world of apes to a story of Apes landing on earth. In the original novel, the Apes live in modern cities, drive cars, and wear clothing similar to humans of earth. When the main character reveals himself to be intelligent and capable of speech, he becomes a curiosity and a celebrity. Then the Apes begin to see him as a threat to their way of life and he must escape back to earth where he finds that earth has evolved into a planet of talking apes as well.

According to "mutant" Don Pedro Colley, the mutants did have names in the script. His was "Ongoro".

Both are epic with epic endings

Genius having the mutants pull off their faces!!! - it's right out there with the statue of liberty laying in ruin!!! - and who doesn't appreciate a sequel that gives us all a opportunity to appreciate Lovely Linda Harrison as NOVA - the real reason ape guard, Julius had to hose Heston/Taylor down!!! - 🙈🙉🙊

I love Beneath also !!!

It's the kind of movie you can't turn away from. I was disturbed by it and told myself I didn't like it, but then proceeded to watch it again numerous times. Escape was better, but this movie had its positive elements. My favorite mutant was "Fat Man" that's what the credits say, played by Victor Buono. A close second is NAtalie Trundy, the producer's wife, who was in each of the sequels.

Rod Sterling and Paul Dehn, two great writers in the history of TV and film... and we lost them both in 1975. :(

The first was brilliant loved, the saw this and just can made my head around it is so f....ed up

Finally someone who likes this film as much as I do! This is my favourite Apes film.

Awesome review of Beneath. I find these reviews hard to watch because a lot of the time the reviewer has to act like a jackass and make it all about themselves. Nice work keep it up.

In the cold light of adulthood, 'Beneath' is indeed a stretch. So much of the plot points are contrived, and generally silly. Still, I could care less. I was mesmerized by this as a kid. I didn't know until years later, McDowell had been replaced. James Gregory was great as Ursus. Flaws and all, I still dig it.

Love all the Ape movies. Grew up with old ones. Love all the newer ones too.

One of my fav sci-fi flicks of all time. Just recently purchased it and the first one. Love these two films.

Enjoyed James Gregory's portrayel of General Ursis

the most shocking thing about the movie is that its not fiction.

I remember this movie as a kid and being super freaked out by it. Especially the machine guns blowing away people and the Q bomb (my reference from the movie The Mouse that Roared). I always wanted those mind powers though. Dang this movie was dark!

I always liked how crazy and dark beneath pota is. This one has the ultimate depressing ending but thats what makes it great. I always considered beneath pota to be the second half of the original movie. In my mind they were both connected as one movie instead of original and sequel. Mainly because they show the complete story of Taylor on the planet of the apes. He starts out as a cynical smartass and evolves into basically last man on earth trying to save the planet. Then the last twist is when he fails he says fuck everybody and pushes the button.

dude, this is leading up to my favorite, CONQUEST!!! I wish they never threw in Caesars passionate speech about living with Humans when the speech clearly was about fucking humans up!

The blood, gore, and images in this film are horrific in a way no splatter flick or CGI mess is today. The shocks are original and realistic. 1. The upside down crucifictions. 2. The "drowning" of Nova. 3. The anatomy work makeup did on the mutants heads. 4. The way the black mutant is dispatched-nasty. 5. Brent, the nominal star of the film, goes down first, with no fanfare or sentiment. A shot to the head, then his already damaged ribs riddled with machine gun fire.

The mutants -- well, the 5 who interrogate Brent -- did indeed have names. The big cheese was MENDEZ XXVI (Mendez the 26th), the woman was ALBINA, the one wearing glasses was CASPAY, the black man was NEGRO, and the rotund one was named FAT MAN (and I think he was named after the atomic bomb that leveled Nagasaki). Their names are listed in the film's end credits. The only other mutant listed in the credits was referred to as "VERGER" but that is not a name, it's his function at the cathedral.

Saw this at the cinema back in 1970 in the UK when it was an A certificate. I managed to see it again a few years later before it came on TV and it had been bumped up to AA certificate, which was only 14 year-olds and over allowed admission into the theatre. Still a great movie.

Seeing this movie was the highlight of my then eight year old life. It was truly incredible.

This was my first Ape movie in the theater, as I was too young for first. I was incredibly frustrated to watch, knowing that the first had tons of action, and this was a protest message flick. Still, I had to digest at age 8 or so. Boy! Loved all the first 5, saw them all in theatre back to back , all 5, in one day. Conquest was last shown, Then we had to walk home freaked out at 11pm, what an experience.

The end of beneath is so depressing. The narrators cold voice with no music.

Just because it was rated G doesn't mean it ought to be labeled as a children's movie. :I

Why, how and where to did Heston disappear!? Could the mutants teleport persons? If he fell underground where is the hole? Or was that a total bullshit the authors pulled not knowing how else to kick Taylor out of the picture for a while?

you're by far my favorite in the CineFix channels .

"Beneath" is hands down my favorite of the series.

Back then G-rated didn't equate to kids movies. It does now, but back then it was just a rating for content, and there were many adult themed movies that were G rated. Now we see it as a rating for age, but mostly because R rated movies are seen as grown up movies, even though back then, they were just seen as cautionary for people with more, how do I say, moralistic views of cinema.

This movie was mind blowing. The creepy choir and the mutant humans and the super bomb... like the Q bomb or the one from Dr. Strangelove. Twisted.

I heard a John Landis commentary where he says the original mutant fx were really awesome and disgusting but they decided to go with cheaper less gory fx make up for the human mutants instead for some reason. Landis said he was on set during filming although he was not actually part of the crew. I wish we would have gotten the more gory mutant makeup instead of what they went with.

Born in 1968. I’m telling you this was HUGE for me for a couple of years before Star Wars changed everything.

The scene that sums up th the truth in this world is the "We don't kill anyone.We get our enemies to kill each other"

I love 'beneath' because it is so hardcore. Look at the death scenes, torture scenes, illusions and even politics. I think it's brilliant, to me all 5 are great in their own way and the TV series was great too. Movies today are too PC to be any good, they're garbage.

Leonard Rosenman's scores is quite good for this film.

NO! It was wrong for Heston to blow up the whole goddamn Earth. I wanted to see Ursus in another movie. As far as I see it he didn't die when Brent shot him. He just got the wind knocked out of him when the bullet hit the armor.

I found these movies on dvd but ive never seen them, they sound fucking wild.

TAYLOR WAS LIKE "NO MOR FUCKING SHITTY SEQUELS" EXPLODES THE WHOLE PLANET

The Apes in this movie Broke Caesar's law to stay out of the forbidden zone.which caused the war to end the world.

It's just like humans to take the Samson option, if i can't have it no one can.

the sequel is super esoteric and cool

Love this film!

Excellent video

I liked the shoot out

I actually finish this one when I bother to start it, so it's technically better than Battle and Burton in that respect. My love for 1, 3 & 4 is so far out in front of any of the other films to date that it's hard to rank them, but it does make it easy to set Rise right in the middle of both extremes. I respect the f'd up ending, but it's so ham-fisted and tedious a retread of the first one that I can only give it kudos for daring but ineffective attempted one-upsmanship.

I think the black actor who plays the mutant was also in "THX1138".

outtro and intro too loud

My favorite of the apes films. I used to think James Fransiscus and Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H) were the same guy. Don't get me started about how incredible Linda Harrison was as Nova. Hot-cha!

This episode embodies the show - Badass! I have a question Devin, why do you think the Planet of the Apes series has such a poor reputation among critics? For example, Beneath the Planet of the Apes gets a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes despite having the political symbolism, allegories, and deep themes that you have mentioned? Let me know thanks!

Favorite mutant: Jeff Corey and his magnificent eyebrows.

I had no love for "Taylor" ( arrogant human), the apes were shit and so were the mutants. I think the ending was spot on 👍 BTW - this was one of my favorites in the franchise. Great Scott

Beneath was definitely bad ass!!! General Usrus is my hero! The forbidden zone has been closed for centuries, and rightly so! However.....

I love the review -- very well done. But the mutants were given names later after the film's release.

I just watched for the second time in My life This amazing yet very bleak sequel. It's imagery and plot where so nuts and I loved it. Had to take a moment when the credits started rolling to gather My thought's. Truly truly did not see that ending coming. Great video on the subject, and lastly I just wanted to leave this image of Artie from Warehouse 13 here. static.tvmaze.com/uploads/images/medium_portrait/3/8942.jpg

I don't think the new series is going to top the original. If they were to do this today...Fox would not allow it. Like your analysis of the films. Can't wait for the next one.

Great film

"Dark G-rated films," eh? I think it was a mistake to rate the Apes films G, especially the original. It had two scenes with nudity, suggestions of lobotomy, sexual references, and some of it seems a bit much for little kids, at least that's how I think.

I am a die-hard Planet Of The Apes fan and i own the entire original series on blu-ray. I must say i feel Beneath is one of the weaker films in the series only because i feel the whole mutant powers thing is a bit whacky, however i think that General Ursus is an absolute badass and is probably the best thing to be introduced in the film.

Huge movie for me. What a theme; a man on a hopeless mission to find a hopeless man. Fuckin dark.

Luv the series thnks for showin my comment keep it up

This is my least favorite of the original POA movies. It’s more frustrating than anything else, because the telepaths are too flat and their inability to physically defend themselves kills any tension in the last act. Nova is hot as hell, though.

Box office doesn’t lie ,the first 2 made the most money and attendance ,because they are the best ones .stick that in your fuse box critics

I like it way more than the first one, but it doesn't work without it.

? What happened to "Planet of the Apes Deep Dive #1" ?

Yes, it's interesting how dark it is, although SF was usually dark until 'Star Wars' in 1977. I don't think it's a good film though. It looks small and cheaper than the 1968 original and the script and direction aren't as strong. Also, the first half is both a retread of the original and unwisely goes from general satire to specific current events satire. Roddy McDowell is missed, Kim Hunter has too little to do and Heston needed to be featured more.

I love that movie

the story goes is that Richard Zanuck president of FOx demanded that Taylor blow up the earth. This was due to the fact Zanuck would be fired and tried to make sure Fox wouldn't be able to make more sequels. I enjoy Beneath, but you can tell at certain point it had a lesser budget than the first.

I liked the fat mutant guy, simply because it raises the question where are they getting food, let alone enough food for someone to be a glutton and become obese.

If we humans can't have earth, damn it no one will.

Yessss! More POTA!

"BLESSED BE TO THE BOMB AND THE HOLY FALLOUT" LOL!!!!

I think the sequel could have been about the humans uniting to fight the apes but that's to easily expected and no way near as original as this one

banned by meredith-- can you undo this glorious action?

This is a g rated film in America!? Tis a 15 in the UK.

....So how to top blowing up the earth?

So I don't spoil it ...I'm not going to say what the ending is but please watch it before it is spoiled. I can say it's the biggest "F- you in your face " pretty much in cinema history.... the amazing thing is as crazy as an ending as the original Planet of the Apes was , this one actually might be just a little more crazier..... amazing how they top even the original movie with this OMG ending.

The narrator looks like Dan fouts.

Brent lacks stamina @ 4:08 He goes down too easily after what is essentially a minor flesh wound.

Great movie but it didn't really appeal to kids like you said the other films did because of the mutants etc. that part was a littl boring for 12 year old me .

Only good human is a dead human. Words in this movie are dead ass..

i love the black guy representing the mind control media

Here's another excellent review of this film: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bs6ZqLyj08jOqHU.html

This one and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" are, hands down the most suck ass of the original five films.

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talk about the others

I had never seen the original Apes movie until a few weeks ago, and am now working my way through the franchise. I just saw this one, and I really do feel like it deserves the hate. The mutants are just a dumb idea, and seem out of place in the setting.

IT was a good sequel and a great series in the context of it's time. Compare and contrast with the vacuous Fast and Furious series and the talentless actor Vim Diesel and you have something far more worth watching

Is it just me or he looks like maradona?