History YMMV / PlanetOfTheApes1968

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ''ape!''"
** A more subdued example is the moment Taylor derails all of Cornelius' and Zira's attempts to debunk his claims of a modern human society by building and flying a ''paper airplane.''

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:The "Planet of the Apes" was really EarthAllAlong, following nuclear war.]]

* MemeticMutation: ''Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!''

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: 50 years on, the ape makeup continues to look excellent and convincing throughout. What likely makes it still work is how simple the makeup actually was; much of the actors' faces remained uncovered by prosthetic (the bulk of it being two pieces attached to the upper and lower jaw, covering the nose and mouth), giving them plenty of facial expressions and even allowing their voices to not be muffled.

** Seeing the future NRA president heft a shotgun and declare "I'm pretty handy with this!"

*** Similarly, the original novel sets the story on a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse, the name of which is sometimes pronounced as [[Film/Beetlejuice]]. Coincidentally, the movie ''Beetlejuice'' was also directed by Burton just like the ''Planet of the Apes'' remake.

* SpiritualSuccessor: As Creator/JamesRolfe pointed out in his review of the film, it's easy to consider this story a missing episode of ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Twilight Zone]]''. Many of the same themes pop up: a fantastical (and somewhat goofy) science-fiction situation, AnAesop about the follies of Man, and the MandatoryTwistEnding. It helps that the initial draft of the screenplay was actually done by Creator/RodSerling, and that a previous episode of ''The Twilight Zone'' ([[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E15IShotAnArrowIntoTheAir "I Shot an Arrow into the Air"]]) dealt with the same story situation and even had a similar TwistEnding.

* {{Narm}}: "IT'S A MADHOUSE! A ''MAAAADHOUSE!''"

* {{Narm}}:

* MagnumOpusDissonance: Fox only greenlighted the movie because they felt Arthur P. Jacobs could do it on a low budget compared to the TroubledProduction that was ''Film/DoctorDolittle'', the movie they were hopeful to turn into a CashCowFranchise. ''Dolittle'' bombed, ''Apes'' became a seminal sci-fi film which started a profitable series.

* FridgeLogic: The chronometer showing Earth time is still working after the rest of the ship's power fails (in plot terms, Taylor has to see it immediately before he leaves the ship).
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Roddy [=McDowall=] (Cornelius) was reluctant to take the part of Cornelius, because he was worried that no-one would recognize him under all that make-up. Instead, he became the only actor to appear in all the sequels[[note]]though only in archive footage in ''Beneath'' as he was busy[[/note]] and TV series, and (unfortunately) is all most people remember him for (in America at least).

* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler:The "Planet Of The Apes" was really EarthAllAlong, following nuclear war.]]

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ''ape!''"

** Landon speculates that the ship could have landed on a planet orbiting the star [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellatrix Bellatrix]]. Nowadays, due to PopculturalOsmosis and the WeirdAlEffect, most viewers who hear that name will think of [[Literature/HarryPotter a certain character named after that star]]. Even better, [[Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter the actress who played that character]] appeared in [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001 the remake of this movie]].

** Landon speculates that the ship could have landed on a planet orbiting the star [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellatrix Bellatrix]]. Nowadays, due to PopculturalOsmosis and the WeirdAlEffect, many viewers who hear that name will think of [[Literature/HarryPotter a certain character named after that star]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Seeing the future NRA president heft a shotgun and declare "I'm pretty handy with this!"

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: JerryGoldsmith's great score, especially the track "The Hunt".

* NightmareFuel: The scene where Landon is shown to have been lobotomized.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ''ape!''"
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: JerryGoldsmith's great score, especially the track "The Hunt".

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Scenes were scripted and filmed revealing, near the end, that Nova was pregnant with Taylor's child. The scenes were cut out of the final print, as it was felt that they changed the focus of the ending, leaving the door open to a sequel Heston didn't want (but got anyway).

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Roddy [=McDowall=] (Cornelius) was reluctant to take the part of Cornelius, because he was worried that no-one would recognize him under all that make-up. Instead, he became the only actor to appear in all the sequels[[note]]though only in archive footage in ''Beneath'' as he was busy[[/note]] and TV series, and (unfortunately) is all most people remember him for.