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Ape (1976)

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As a big fan of giant monster movies from the orient such as Godzilla and Gamera I had a to check out APE, the film that has so many alternate titles which in My opinion is hilarious such as APE: Attacking Primate Monster, Super Kong, and The New King Kong. I have seen most giant gorilla films and from viewing The original classic King Kong, The Son of Kong, the 1976 remake of King Kong, it’s sequel King Kong Lives and ToHo’s King Kong vs. Godzilla and King Kong Escapes and the Q.T. flick the Mighty Peking Man. I can tell you that APE is the most different of them all and the most horrible one of the lot but I really don`t mind the fake looking ape with the zipper on the side of the costume which sometimes they forgot close it all the way, the really bad dubbing, the stupid dialogue, the paper thin buildings (I say paper thin because when the buildings are on fire it sounds like paper burning!), the toy vehicles, the toy cow, the pool that is supposed to be the ocean, the rubber shark, the maximized snake, the army and the people running over and over and over again and such and plus what made it even better was it was filmed in 3D! I don`t mind this terrible stuff in APE because it makes the film funny and even better than what it supposed to be.APE is so dumb that I couldn’t stop laughing.

Minor briefing on the goings on in APE:

In the beginning of APE it starts out with a bang with the boat and we are introduced to two workers on the freighter (shouldn’t the film have begun and told how the APE was captured and where he came from?). They have the slowest conversation and it really helps with the very out of place dubbing. In this conversation they talk about the big guy and that he is going to Disney Land and all of a sudden the toy boat is blown up out of proportion. The screen is black and all you see is fire and the pool that is supposed to be the ocean for several seconds. Then immediately we see APE fighting with a giant great white shark that in My opinion resembled more of a basking shark. The shark never fought back and APE just thrashes him back and fourth a dozen times. This was an excellent seen for what it was. Through out the film we see Ape dance, gave the finger which was an awesome excellent experience to view and he never makes any roars and I noticed that there were no stomping sounds whatsoever! The character Colonel Davis was hilarious! he said lines such as “to hell with the press, I’m going to smoke this cigarette”! The film is a total laugh fest and I think people who love horrible movies with many mistake and fake looking stuff this is THE FILM for you!