Planet of the Apes: 5 Film Collection [Blu-ray]

Planet of the Apes: 5 Film Collection [Blu-ray] Overview

PLANET OF THE APES
A bewildered astronaut (Charlton Heston) crash-lands on a strange planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport.

BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES
A daring rescue mission leads to a subterranean city where mutant humans worship a weapon capable of destroying the entire planet.

ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
Two futuristic simians who have traveled to present-day Earth enjoy celebrity status—until a government plot forces them to run for their lives!

CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
Apes have been domesticated and trained as pets and personal servants — until their continual mistreatment leads to a spectacular revolt.

BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
In the final Apes chapter, an idyllic society of man and ape is threatened by both a militant gorilla and a tribe of still-intelligent mutant humans.

Planet of the Apes: 5 Film Collection [Blu-ray] Specifications

Many early science fiction films are now, quite inadvertently (and in most cases undeservedly), objects of camp attention: we laugh at the silly makeup, tin-can special effects, and the naive "high-tech" dialogue. Planet of the Apes is no such film. Its intelligent script, frightening costuming, and savagely effective conclusion (which needs no big-budget special effects to augment its impact) remain both potent and relevant. When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes. However, the ape community is riven with internal dissention, centered in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are treated as mindless animals. Befriended and ultimately assisted by the more liberal simians, Taylor escapes--only to find a more terrifying obstacle confronting his return home. Heavy-handed object lessons abound--the ubiquity of generational warfare, the inflexibility of dogma, the cruelty of prejudice--and the didactic fingerprints of Rod Serling are very much in evidence here. But director Franklin Schaffner has a dark, pop-apocalyptic sci-fi vision all his own, and time has not dulled the monumental emotional impact of the film's climactic payoff shot. If you don't know what I'm talking about here, you owe it to yourself to check out this stone classic, and even if you do, see it with fresh eyes; and don't be surprised if you get the chills all over again... and again... and again. --Miles Bethany

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