This is a supplement to the P.R.S.F. video review which can be found here.
I know the video is long enough as it is, so who’s going to read extra stuff on it, right? Well, again, since the video is quite long, I have really said all I have to say about Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
For any of you that may not have caught on from that video, I really didn’t like it. Having to watch the movie again to do the review was painful. In fact, I wasn’t remotely kidding when I said that the subterraneans insistence that they aren’t hurting people because they use their minds.
Talking about that points out in how many ways the subterraneans are like the Platonians from the original series Star Trek episode “Plato’s Stepchildren”. Both are super advanced mentally, weak physically, believes they are morally superior because of it and believes that harming people with their mind is less savage then using weapons or brawn to fight.
That episode of Star Trek came out just a year before this movie was made. This is really quite blatant. The only difference is that the Platonians follow the teachings of Plato, particularly from the Republic, and have the hypocrisy of how they go against that constantly shoved in their face while the subterraneans worship a nuclear bomb and wear masks for some ungodly reason and Brent only points out that this is so stupid the once.
This makes “Plato’s Stepchildren” an interesting morality play about Ancient Greek philosophical values, modern American values and how power corrupts, while Beneath the Planet of the Apes can be summed up as WAR IS BAD! Without anything even pretending to be subtle or have subtext.
Another point: this movie is called Beneath the Planet of the Apes, but only a half hour of this over two hour long movie actually takes place underground. I know that considering how much I hate the subterraneans I should be happy about this, but, honestly, the ape stuff was pretty boring after watching the first movie where the same things happened, but better.
To sum up, this movie’s bad. If you want to skip this movie entirely and move on to the better sequels, then I give you more then enough information in my video to let you do just that.
-Lasperance A. “Dax” Dektober
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