YMMV / Planet of the Apes

Works in this franchise with their own YMMV pages:

• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• Return to the Planet of the Apes
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• War for the Planet of the Apes

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The Franchise in general:

• Broken Base: The timeline debates - was it an endless loop, or did history change, and which is preferable? The ambiguously Surprisingly Happy Ending of the fifth film is either a shocking betrayal of the brilliantly dark setting of the first film or the only thing that salvages the original franchise from falling victim to Angst Aversion.
• Complete Monster: See here.
• Contested Sequel: The two remakes. The original sequels too, to a lesser extent.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Ricardo Montalbán's character Armando in the third and fourth films.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many deny that the sequels and/or remake exist. The reboot prequel series mostly managed to avert this, with Dawn and War in particular being seen as the only films to rival the original.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
  • YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!!!
  • "A planet where APES evolved from MEN?!"
  • "That is/is not Ape Law!"
• Sequelitis: Until Dawn, no sequel had nearly as warm a reception as the original (Rise coming the closest), with Battle at the bottom.

The Novel:

• Adaptation Displacement: Few people (at least outside of France, and even then) are aware that the first film was an adaptation at all.

The TV Series:

• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It was much more successful in Britain than at home (although it took until The '90s for the series to get a network screening - in its initial run and repeats thereafter it was shown in every ITV region except STV (Scottish Television, in Central Scotland); Channel 4 gave it its first UK-wide airing in the mid-90s, and both the series and the Compilation Movies regularly turned up on cable TV).
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Marc Singer played Dalton in "The Gladiators".
  • Jackie Earle Haley played Kraik in "The Legacy".
  • James Naughton's younger brother David Naughton played Dr. Stole in "The Surgeon".
  • Michael Conrad played Janor in "The Tyrant".
  • Sondra Locke played Amy in "The Cure".
• Special Effects Failure:
  • In "The Good Seeds", when the chimpanzee Anto grabs a chicken, the actor Geoffrey Deuel's very human forearms can be seen.
  • The blackened teeth of the actors playing apes can often be seen behind their prosthetics.

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