The opening crawl contains no less than three spelling errors, which doesn’t give you a whole lot of confidence in this, the fourth film in director Mark Polonia’s Empire of the Apes series. After the crawl, we get a recycled scene from the last one, Invasion of the Empire of the Apes, where a female prisoner is nearly raped by a horny ape. Then, the plot begins.
Two ape terrorists are arrested for trying to blow up a space station and are sentenced to an icy prison planet. (Scenes of two guys in monkey masks walking in front of green screened images of a frozen tundra is what passes for “an icy prison planet” in this movie.) As they seek shelter and warmth, they are pursued by alien “flyers”. (They look like something out of How to Train Your Dragon.) Eventually, they stumble upon a crashed ship containing a warrior woman, and together they form an alliance to fix the spacecraft and get revenge on the evil aliens who condemned them all to death.
Revenge of the Empire of the Apes is an improvement over the last two outings in the series, although that’s not saying very much. Once again, the effects are piss poor (the CGI space battles look like cut scenes from a 3DO game), although the ape masks are slightly better this time out. (There were only two apes, so I guess they could afford to spring for masks that weren’t on the clearance rack for this entry.) I’m not sure I can say this is the best one of the franchise or anything. What I can say is that the ape on human sex scenes (including some ape on human S & M) certainly make it the most memorable. Granted, the human and simian boinking isn’t exactly erotic, but it’s just weird enough to give it a reason to exist.
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