Planet Of The Apes Collection (DVD 2001)

Story: This deluxe box set features the five PLANET OF THE APES movies, beginning with the 1968 original (starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, and Kim Hunter), in which a group of astronauts find themselves stranded on a world where apes evolved from humans, only to learn the shocking surprise about humanity's future.
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES, the second installment in the PLANET OF THE APES series, finds another astronaut (James Franciscus) following in his predecessor's time-wandering footsteps to the planet ruled by highly evolved apes. There he encounters a group of nuclear holocaust survivors living in Grand Central Station and worshipping the very atomic warhead that destroyed their world.
ESCAPE FROM PLANET OF THE APES, the third chapter in the series, finds ape heroes Cornelius (McDowall) and Zira (Hunter) in 1970s Los Angeles. They have traveled back in time, but soon find that they have enemies in the past as well as the present.
In CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, an intelligent ape (McDowall, playing the son of his other APES character, Cornelius) from the far future leads an army of simian servants in a revolt against their human masters. This fourth film features the most explosive subtext of any in the series, along with a sleek, futuristic production design.
The fifth and final episode, BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, features a community of intelligent apes living in harmony with a group of humans after the collapse of human civilization. However, a band of mutants who reside beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those they perceive as enemies.
This comprehensive collection also includes the feature-length documentary BEHIND THE PLANET OF THE APES, hosted by McDowall.

Comments: Marvelous Work In the THX DIGITALLY REMASTERED...

I enjoy ENORMOUSLY all those old classic movies such as this masterpiece '' Planet Of The Apes '' witch are Digitally THX Remastered.

It's as if your watching a brand new movie, awesome great, truely wonderful.

Planet Of The Apes clearly describes a upside-down society where a planet is ruled by apes & not by humans, clearly stating all that flaws in a human.

At the end it is shown that it is NOT a foreign planet, BUT earth itself, IN the future!

Conclusion and/or assumption ( since movie was of the 1960's where people were demonstrating on mass-scale against nuclear research ) was made that a nuclear bomb, nuclear fallout or atomic war had been in the past resulting this devastating effect that now the apes have won & conquered humans & rule the earth now.

The Most Famous Line by Charles Heston '' Get Your Damm paws of me, you damm dirty ape '' is a classic line that many moviefans remember & will always remember.

If you do NOT have this movie in your collection yet, purchase it a.s.a.p. as it will enrich your collection by far.

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