Planet of the Apes:Everybody remebers the part where Taylor sees the Statue of Liberty and finally figures out hes back home. Wether you loved or hated the movie you couldn't it ignore it with its neo-twilight zone plot, amazing makeup work, and throng of sequels. The plot is centered around the character Taylor (pictured below)

played by Charlton Heston, who is an astronaut stranded on an alien world and Roddy MacDowell plays Cornelius a chimpanzee scientist trying to help out Taylor.Also Zira, Cornelius's fiancee a zoologlist that also helps Taylor Also Doctor Zauis the asshole ape who trys to hide the existence of the only intelligent man. The movie starts out with a team or four astronauts accidentally getting turned around, while on a mission to a planet in another galaxy. Three of the astronauts survive the crash and try to figure out where the hell they are. The astronauts see these savage humans out in a corn field, then the apes come in and start shooting at everybody. The black guy astronaut ends up dead from a bullet wound. The other two astronauts are captured and taking to a zoo/research facility. There Taylor is taken in by Zira an ape scientist and her husband Cornelius. They are amazed Taylor can talk. Dr. Zauis trys to keep Taylor under wraps.Taylor escapes and gets free. Then Taylor rides off into to the sunset only to meet up with the Statue of Liberty, and realizes he is in fact back home on Earth.

Beneath the Planet of the Apes: A rescue mission of two astronauts is sent up into space to find Taylors lost mission.Also this is the only ape movie McDowell doesn't play in. The commander astronaut dies (I think we all saw this one coming) anyway Brent is the only one that survives. He meets up with Nova and hangs out with her through the rest of the movie because she was Taylors dog tags and she responds to the name. Brent finds out the world is totally messed. Brent meets up with Dr. and Dr. Zauis and they help out Brent. Meanwhile the gorillas are planning a big expedition in to the forbidden zone, because of very strange reconnaisance reports. Brent wanders around the forbidden zone and discovers an underground tunnel. The tunnel lead to an ancient subway tunnel. Brent follows this strange noise and finds out there are intelligent humans left. He gets interrogated by the humans and then gets put in a cell with Taylor. Brent also finds out the mutants worship a doomsday nuclear missle. Meanwhile outside the apes are invading and they attack the mutant settlement. A one-sided battle ensues and Taylor and Brent escape. They kill a couple of the apes. They both get killed. But as Taylor's act he sets off the doomsday weapon and wipes out everybody.

Escape from POTA Escape is the thrid movie in the series. I thought it was okay, but not as good as the first two movies. I give it three out of five stars. What happens is just before the Omega bomb goes off and completely destroys Earth. The chimpanzee Dr. Milo had just completed his spaceship built from the ones crashed on Earth early in the series. I don't know how Milo managed this considering that the apes known nothing of flight computers or just about any other aspect of our advanced technologly. Anyway he takes Zira and Cornelius up with him on his flight into space. The apes go see earth explode then go through a time warp into the the 1970s. The apes are found of the Californian coast and put in a Zoo.Milo is killed by a primitive gorilla in the Zoo. Later they speak before Congress and explain why they can talk and all that stuff. The apes become very popular and go around New York and live it up. Some Feds get the apes drunk and interrogate them. The feds find out that the Zira and Cornelius child leds the ape rebellion. So then the government tries to have the apes killed. Before Cornelius and Zira are killed they leave their newly born ape child with the owner of a circus.

Conquest for the Planet of the Apes Conquest is one of my least favorite movies of the POTA series.Some people like it much better than all the others but I'm not one of those people. I don't like it because its pretty slow and some parts are very hard to believe. Cornelius and Zira's son from the last movie is the main character of this movie. He names himself Caesar and his mentor is the Circus owner who raised him. The movie takes place in like 2010.Apes have gone from pets to slaves.Monkeys go around the city and pick up trash and do other menial tasks.A new govt. department is in charge of the apes its called Ape management division or something. The humans are very cruel to the apes. Before apes are made into slaves they go through a grueling and torturous conditioning program. Caesar is the only ape that can talk and he has a hard time keeping his mouth shut. Caesar's "owner" is captured, interrogated and killed by the government. Caesar is sold to the head of Ape Management. In his spare time Caesar collects weapons and organizes and a guerilla movement. Caesar gets help from a human in Ape Management. Finally the apes decide they've had enough. A mass revot occurs. The revolt ends in a dramatic scene where Caesar leads his mob against the well-armed police. The apes then trash ape management and capture Caesar's former master.I give the movie two out of five stars.

Battle for the Planet of the Apes This the last ape movie made and most would say the worst. It had pretty good potential, but the finance guys apparently didn't want to shell out enough cash, so the movie had to operate on a low budget.

The movie takes place as a flashback as the LawGiver is telling some ape and human childern about Caesar.The main part takes place a little while after Conquest for the POTA. Apparently someone nuked the US while the ape revolution was going on totally collopased the US government. Caesar leads an ape/human community near an old city. Caesar is married and has a son. The table have turned and the apes are in control of the Ape City and the humans have no say in government. Caesar leads a little expedition into the the nuked city trying to find out about this parents. What he finds is a bunch of pissed off mutants. Caesar and gang get out of Dodge and head back to ape city. Also Caesar sons is killed mysteriously. The mutants form a strike force and pursue the apes. The mutants are doing pretty well but the apes ambush the mutants. The mutants have to retreat in thier bus, but the gorillas kill the survivors. Also we find out that the gorilla general killed Caesar's and the apes run him out of there. At the very end the Lawgiver ponders if humans and apes can leave together in peace.