Very different from “Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes” (1972), the fourth film in the original series, which it most closely resembles. Unlike that earlier film, which was about an ape revolution violently overthrowing human domination, this film is only about intelligent apes liberating themselves and escaping to a forest (while – SPOILER ALERT - a deadly virus – deadly only to the humans but not to the apes – is accidentally released and will presumably wipe out the human race). So while the earlier film reflected its era of the Watts riots, Che Guevara and Black Panthers, this film reflects the era of the bird flu, the swine flu and animal rights.
