History YMMV / BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes

* CriticalDissonance: Despite the movie's particularly poor reception, there are some fans who feel that the series ''needed'' to get a LighterAndSofter ending after the bleakness of the preceding films and feel that this movie accomplished that without sacrificing too much of the series's tone and themes. Some of the performances are also decently liked.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: Widely agreed to be not only the worst of the original five ''Planet of the Apes'' movies, but the worst ''Apes'' movie period (aside from possibly the [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 2001 remake]]). The main reasons for this are the budget being slashed to the point where everything looks incredibly cheap, and the writing clearly being pitched to a much younger audience than in the previous films (both of which may be signs that the film was being used as a trial run for the then-upcoming ''Apes'' [[Series/PlanetOfTheApes TV series]]).
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: The budget may be smaller than the previous films and the plot may be less original, but all of the major actors (with the possible exceptions of the ones playing Aldo, Kolp, and Alma) put an impressive amount of feeling and nuance into their performances.

* CriticalBacklash: Despite the movie's particularly poor reception, there are some fans who feel that the series ''needed'' to get a LighterAndSofter ending after the bleakness of the preceding films and feel that this movie accomplished that without sacrificing too much of the series's tone and themes. Some of the performances are also decently liked.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Widely agreed to be not only the worst of the original five ''Planet of the Apes'' movies, but the worst ''Apes'' movie period (aside from possibly the [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 2001 remake]]). The main reasons for this are the budget being slashed to the point where everything looks incredibly cheap, and the writing clearly being pitched to a much younger audience than in the previous films (both of which may be signs that the film was being used as a trial run for the then-upcoming ''Apes'' [[Series/PlanetOfTheApes TV series]]).

* CriticalDissonance: Despite the movie's particularly poor reception, there are some fans who feel that the series ''needed'' to get a LighterAndSofter ending after the bleakness of the preceding films and feel that this movie accomplished that without sacrificing too much of the series's tone and themes. Some of the performances are also decently liked.

* CompleteMonster:
** [[DragonAscendant Kolp]] is the chief inspector to Governor Breck's regime, having captured Caesar and subjected him to ElectricTorture to make him talk, then tries to have him executed via electrocution. Return as the leader of a band of mutants after WorldWarIII, Kolp tries to eradicate everyone residing in Ape City, humans and apes alike, killing a gorilla soldier along the way. Once this fails, he tries to use the [[DoomsdayDevice Alpha-Omega Bomb]] to [[NukeEm destroy the entire city]] as a [[TakingYouWithMe last-ditch effort]] to kill everyone despite its capabilities to destroy the entire world.
** [[GeneralRipper General Aldo]], a gorilla commander of Ape City's army who plans to usurp Caesar for being weak. Having a [[FantasticRacism hatred for humans]] because his teacher called him out for his disruptive behavior. During the comic, he frees a bunch of other apes who start going on a rampage slaughtering all their teachers and then stealing a bunch of jets to start bombing Washington and taking over the White House. During the film, he coldly murders [[WouldHurtAChild Cornelius II]] once he saw him planning to usurp Caesar and tries to frame a human for the act. Once he [[TyrantTakesTheHelm gains leadership]] with Caesar's absence, he locks all of the humans in cages, including the children, and [[LeaveNoSurvivors mercilessly slaughters all of the mutants]] who were retreating from the failed invasion of Ape City. Aldo and his men later attempt to kill all of the humans he locked up, threatening to kill Caesar should he get in his way.

** [[GeneralRipper General Aldo]], a gorilla commander of Ape City's army who plans to usurp Caesar for being weak. Having a [[FantasticRacism hatred for humans]] because his teacher called him out for his disruptive behavior, he coldly murders [[WouldHurtAChild Cornelius II]] once he saw him planning to usurp Caesar and tries to frame a human for the act. Once he [[TyrantTakesTheHelm gains leadership]] with Caesar's absence, he locks all of the humans in cages, including the children, and [[LeaveNoSurvivors mercilessly slaughters all of the mutants]] who were retreating from the failed invasion of Ape City. Aldo and his men later attempt to kill all of the humans he locked up, threatening to kill Caesar should he get in his way.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The original ending would have created a StableTimeLoop with the first film: Aldo would have [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shot Caesar during their climactic showdown]] and established martial law, executing all the humans except for those who where too weak/stupid to challenge him, who became slaves. Meanwhile, at the Mutant City, Mendez and Alma are overlooking the [[Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes Alpha-Omega Bomb]] and discuss Kolp's orders to [[TakingYouWithMe deploy it in the event of his death]]. They decide against it, deciding instead to preserve it as a symbol. Studio demands to appeal to a younger audience, and the nascent TV series, resulted in numerous changes to make the ending (and the film in general) more upbeat.

* {{Sequelitis}}: Widely agreed to be not only the worst of the original five ''Planet of the Apes'' movies, but the worst ''Apes'' movie period (aside from possibly the [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 2001 remake]]). The main reasons for this are the budget being slashed to the point where everything looks incredibly cheap, and the writing clearly being pitched to a much younger audience than in the previous films (both of which may be signs that the film was being used as a trial run for the then-upcoming ''Apes'' [[Series/PlanetOfTheApes TV series]]).
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* ExecutiveMeddling: The original ending would have created a StableTimeLoop with the first film: Aldo would have killed Caesar in their climactic fight and established martial law, executing all the humans except for those who where too weak/stupid to challenge him, who became slaves. Meanwhile, at the Mutant City, Mendez and Alma are overlooking the [[Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes Alpha-Omega Bomb]] and discuss Kolp's orders to [[TakingYouWithMe deploy it in the event of his death]]. They decide against it, deciding instead to preserve it as a symbol. Studio demands to appeal to a younger audience, and the nascent TV series, resulted in numerous changes to make the ending (and the film in general) more upbeat.

* AwesomeMusic: Leonard Rosenman's score is often held up as one of the film's main saving graces, and it helps that it's far more melodic than the harsh, dissonant score he came up with for ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes''.

* MoralEventHorizon: For the apes, [[spoiler: Aldo killing Cornelius is seen as this. Only Caesar seems particularly upset after Aldo dies, since his killing of him violets ApeShallNeverKillApe]].

* MoralEventHorizon: For the apes, [[spoiler: Aldo killing Cornelius is seen as this. Only Caesar seems particularly upset after Aldo dies]].