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...wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing, sweeping up, waiting on tables). They are treated like slaves by a repressive government until one of them, named Caesar, leads an open revolt. Scenarist Paul Dehn sometimes lets his satire turn into sermonizing, but he also engineers a clever and jauntily cynical reversal of sympathies whereby audiences cheer the marauding apes in their campaign to overcome mankind...
...Apes. The fourth of the series of simian-centered fantasies. The time is 1991, and apes have become the new oppressed of the earth (though the humans shown don't seem much better off). Even the serial aspect is fun, though its also getting drawn out. Paul Dehn again has written a clever script, while J. Lee Thompson, who has become a bona fide yard-goods man, directs mechanically, at the SAXON...
...Apes. The fourth of the series of simian-centered fantasies. The time is 1991, and apes have become the new oppressed of the earth (though the humans shown don't seem much better off). Even the serial aspect is fun, though its also getting drawn out, Paul Dehn again has written a clever script, while J. Lee Thompson, who has become a bona fide yard-goods man, directs mechanically. Starts Wednesday at the SAXON...
...pictures have had deliberate racial overtones that are far from flattering to whites; the oppression of the apes has been equated with the denial of civil rights to U.S. blacks. In Conquest, the racial parallel will be explicit. The climactic uprising, says Dehn. "is a little bit like the Watts riot...
...Apes 5, the apes begin to squabble, just like humans, foreshadowing a social order in which orangutans are the scientific elite, and gorillas the warmongers. The chimpanzees, who are like Bloomsbury intellectuals, merely think. "They're all terribly like Bertrand Russell, my chimpanzees," muses Dehn, in what presumably is a compliment to both sides...