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***SPOILER ALERT***: This movie sucks. ***END SPOILER ALERT***
Sandy Frank is at it again, splicing scenes from a Japanese TV series into a full length movie, paying some accent-ually challenged people to do the dubbing, and releasing it to the American market, just like he did with Fugitive Alien. While Fugitive Alien was at least fun to watch due to its overwhelming absurdity, Time of the Apes is the cinematic definition of pain. It's an assault on all senses and it seems as if it's intended to be, as well. A movie doesn't get this awful by accident.
The plot follows a hot Japanese woman and her two annoying foster kids who accidentally get cryogenically frozen and end up in a not too distant future, where ventriloquist monkeys rule the world. The team meet Gôdo, a freedom fighter, and a hideous ape child, and it's non-stop dullness from then on.
The editing is completely bizarre. The camera will cut swiftly and epileptically between two characters' faces in a scene. In other scenes monkey hands fly towards the screen so fast even Michael Bay would get nightmares.
When the movie finally ends you're left numb and stunned at its visual awfulness and relentless stupidity. Even for what it is, a cheap Japanese serial turned movie, it's awful. Avoid at all costs.
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