K17 - TIME OF THE APES

Genre:  Japanese Sci-Fi (1974, Color)

Synopsis:  This movie is riffed again on the show during its cable run, so read the write-up for ep #306 - Time of the Apes for a plot synopsis.

Don’s Review:  This movie, another from Sandy Frank, is a confusing and extremely cheesy Planet of the Apes rip-off.  Joel wasn’t available for this episode, so the SOL host segments have him being locked out of the ship, naked in space.  Therefore, Tom Servo and Crow watch the movie alone and actually do a decent job riffing it.  Although not nearly as good as the riffing in the later version of this movie (ep #306) because it’s still in the low-key KTMA style, there are some great riffs here that aren’t repeated in the later version.  Another added plus (in a way) is that the movie is not edited down, so some sequences actually make more sense in this version (although not much more).  The host segments are amusing, but are all rather short because of the length of the movie (I particularly liked the opening segment on Bosses).  So, not a bad KTMA episode overall, but as a repeated movie, it’s really not one of the first KTMA eps to try to get.

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