Beneath the Planet of the Apes | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The zoom-frenzy direction of Ted Post, and a vague satire of Vietnam featuring some hysterical protesting peacenik chimps, does little to cover-up the film's difficulties. But it does have its moments.

The whole movie is often frightening in the wrong way -- not by force of satire but by weight of attitudinizing.

There are a lot of good ideas peppered throughout the screenplay by Paul Dehn...The problem is that none of these ideas are properly nurtured.

Suffers from Jaws 2 syndrome, attempting to replicate the beats of the first film too closely with much of the same cast reprising their roles and character ticks and because of that, it simply doesn't have its own fingerprint.

The best parts of the film are also the places where it's most ineffective as a sequel.