Review of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) by Liz K — 10 Sep 2014

Having recently read that the opening scene was cut from this movie, and after test audiences were unhappy with the ending and amount of graphic violence in this movie they changed the ending and cut a number of scenes throughout, it makes a lot more sense why it feels like a whole lotta nothing happened in this movie.

The ending they ended up using makes more sense with the series and the whole "Chimpanzees are pacifists!" proclamation throughout the earlier movies, but doesn't really feel like it fit the rest of the movie either.

Somewhere in between the two where perhaps the Gorillas don't listen to the commands of this talking Chimpanzee they wouldn't be able to understand anyhow would've made more sense to me. If test audiences didn't like it it could happen off screen or be less graphic.

I don't really get why Armando would EVER take Caesar out of the circus knowing what kind of danger he could encounter, Or why when all the cats and dogs died of plague people thought to themselves "hey remember how those talking apes said we would have ape pets and then turn them into slaves and then have them over throw us? That sounded cool, lets do that.

" Instead of adopting ferrets or possums or something.