jfgibson73 A giant ape escapes from a ship and destroys a city. That's about it.I've read that this is a Korean made movie that tried to make money as a King Kong ripoff. Some of the stories about how this movie was made are more entertaining than watching the actual movie. Anyone who sits through this today could only be interested in the camp value, and there are a number of moments to laugh at. The movie has every problem that is generally associated with bad movies, such as bad dubbing, terrible dialog, stilted acting, and poor effects. What takes the fun out of the movie are the long stretches of repetitive or stagnant shots. For example, when the ape fights the shark, he swings it back and forth for what feels like five minutes straight. A guy in a bad ape costume with a dead shark. Swinging it around. Over and over. So for that reason, I would not want to sit through this one again. I had to watch it once, all the way through, just because of some strange fascination with how inept everything was. This might actually be the worst movie ever.

Criti-Size This was intended to be a serious movie which came out at the same time as the big budget remake of KING KONG. I remember as a kid, reading the poster in line at the theater which stated "not to be confused with King Kong", which is hilarious in itself. I ended up walking out (after the dumb guy in the ape suit wrestles the plastic shark in the pool scene) near the beginning and got a refund.If they spent more than $50.00 to make this movie, they were fools.You will be too if you watch this piece of crap.

capkronos Original ads warned, "Not the be confused with KING KONG." Not a problem there, pals! This not only makes one yearn to see the original 1933 KONG again, but it makes the Dino De Laurentiis remake look like a revisionist masterpiece. The FX work (originally shown in 3-D) is even cheesier than the old Toho GODZILLA movies as "ten tons" of simian fury (AKA - guy in monkey suit) crushes a model city, sinks a toy ship and wrestles around with "giant" rubber snake and shark creatures. It's all for the love of an actress, played by Joanna De Varona who is actually Joanna Kerns, the mother from the Growing Pains TV series! APE sure is funny and worth watching, but going by the general rules of movie scoring, it's a...Score: 1 out of 10

Movie Nuttball As a big fan of giant monster movies from the orient such as Godzilla and Gamera I had a to check out APE, the film that has so many alternate titles which in My opinion is hilarious such as APE: Attacking Primate Monster, Super Kong, and The New King Kong. I have seen most giant gorilla films and from viewing The original classic King Kong, The Son of Kong, the 1976 remake of King Kong, it's sequel King Kong Lives and ToHo's King Kong vs. Godzilla and King Kong Escapes and the Q.T. flick the Mighty Peking Man. I can tell you that APE is the most different of them all and the most horrible one of the lot but I really don`t mind the fake looking ape with the zipper on the side of the costume which sometimes they forgot close it all the way, the really bad dubbing, the stupid dialogue, the paper thin buildings (I say paper thin because when the buildings are on fire it sounds like paper burning!), the toy vehicles, the toy cow, the pool that is supposed to be the ocean, the rubber shark, the maximized snake, the army and the people running over and over and over again and such and plus what made it even better was it was filmed in 3D! I don`t mind this terrible stuff in APE because it makes the film funny and even better than what it supposed to be.APE is so dumb that I couldn't stop laughing.Minor briefing on the goings on in APE:In the beginning of APE it starts out with a bang with the boat and we are introduced to two workers on the freighter (shouldn't the film have begun and told how the APE was captured and where he came from?). They have the slowest conversation and it really helps with the very out of place dubbing. In this conversation they talk about the big guy and that he is going to Disney Land and all of a sudden the toy boat is blown up out of proportion. The screen is black and all you see is fire and the pool that is supposed to be the ocean for several seconds. Then immediately we see APE fighting with a giant great white shark that in My opinion resembled more of a basking shark. The shark never fought back and APE just thrashes him back and fourth a dozen times. This was an excellent seen for what it was. Through out the film we see Ape dance, gave the finger which was an awesome excellent experience to view and he never makes any roars and I noticed that there were no stomping sounds whatsoever! The character Colonel Davis was hilarious! he said lines such as "to hell with the press, I'm going to smoke this cigarette"! The film is a total laugh fest and I think people who love horrible movies with many mistake and fake looking stuff this is THE FILM for you!Notes:For the people who are interested in buying APE on video go to the following web address http://www.bijouflix.com/index.html. They have an excellent selection on rare low budget films at great prices with super fast shipping and service! This is a dream come true if you love this movie and were unable to see it when it was TV or find it at a video store. This is what I believe the only way to find the film unless you find on DVD at Amazon.com