Sagas Simians: I return to the Planet of the Simians (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)

Ted Post, 1970
The first one of the aftermath of “The planet of the simians” starts just where it was finishing the first delivery, in fact the images of Nova and Taylor (it is still Charlton Heston although with a short role) discovering the remains of New York are the beginning of the movie. While they continue his exploration for the prohibited area we see like a rescue ship space / storm comes from the same point that Taylor, repeating his disastrous landing surviving only Brent (James Franciscus). It nongoes it loses Taylor after this one suffers strange visions, and finds Brent.
It nongoes takes his new friend with Zira in search of advice, while in parallel the simians are shaken: Ursus, a new and bellicose general gorilla wants to begin a military campaign to explore and to conquer the part of planet that they have vetoed (the prohibited area). With the support of Zaius (the orangoutang the minister of science, let's remember) the campaign begins, but in the course of his explorations the army begins to suffer similar hallucinations to which Taylor had suffered. Brent and It Nongoes finally they are captured but they manage to escape and to get in a few underground caves where Brendt realizes from which it is and discovers a group of human beings that has evolved of an amazing way having developed extraordinary mental powers, at the time that they produce refined catastrophes to. better I do not explain it of brave that is!!!!
- the powerful army simian took the whole budget, they did not leave a five-peseta coin for mock-ups -
Undoubtedly the first one of the aftermath simians is a good tape of science fiction realized with desire and overcoming the scarce budget (the mock-ups of the apocalypse of New York are a little of rummage sale, the truth). Little stays of the original novel except the plot premise and the personages, being the thickness of the plot harvests own of the scriptwriters. And go if they obtain an interesting history with this full-fledged human race (year 3500 + let's remember) but that nevertheless they produce cult to ridiculous deities (although once it dresses the movie you realize that if the current human being has been 2000 years producing cult to Jesus Christ, the motive of cult of this civilization does not stop having certain sense).
- educated strangers preside at the movie in not so hallucinated brave moments as it might be thought -
Undoubtedly the best of the tape there is this beginning where several histories interlace of effective form and it becomes possible to transmit interest to know the courses of the history, which certainly evolves for unexpected areas, it is not possible to accuse to this consequence of slightly ambitious. Ted Post emulates the style of Franklin J. Schaffner with distant captures and extracting party of the natural stages. A pity that the ending where the different plots come together narrates of slightly abrupt form and that some details of the second part of the tape as these ritual strangers rub the psicotronía (or the ridiculousness as we see it from the point of view freakie or conventional, there you in whom group you think).
- with you Ursus (they were already meeting Zaius) on the verge of tying it up brown -
As a whole “Return to the planet of the simians” is one more than correct science fiction tape entirely disfrutable despite his lacks, which undoubtedly it would be more known of not being for being in the shade of the great work that is the original movie. Certainly that of incredible form for the way in which it finishes the tape, the saga still would leave three aftermath of (very variable quality.
Evaluation: 7/10
Next posts (approximately in a weekly way on his screens):
1 - The Planet of the Simians (Pierre Boulle, writes novels), 1963 2 - The Planet of the simians (Planet of the Apes), 19683 - I Return to the Planet of the Simians (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), 19704 - Flight of the Planet of the Simians (Leakage from the Planet of the Apes), 19715 - The Rebellion of the Simians (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes), 19726 - He Battles for the Planet of the Simians (Battle for the Planet of the Apes), 19737 - Series of Television: Planet of the Apes (1974), Return to the Planet of the (animated) Apes (1975)) 8 - Planet of the simians (Planet of the Apes), 2001-Tim Burton-9 - Legacy, Curiosities and Rumorología on new versions
(All the posts of the serial simian can be in this linkage)