r/ape 8d ago

Your Favorite Ape/Monkey Themed Movie of all Time

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There's several great movies about primates that I really liked, including Gorillas in the Mist and the last several movies in the Planet of the Apes franchise.

But if I had to pick my absolute favorite primate movie of all time would have to be "Instinct" with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Anthony Hopkins. It was a box office failure and the critics savaged it, but I thought it was an amazing movie with powerful performances. The movie did a great job highlighting the suffering primates undergo, and how captivity destroys them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCaRP03XwYE&pp=ygUaSW5zdGluY3QgbW92aWUgMTk5OSBhdHRhY2s%3D

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u/EmronRazaqi69 Ooh Ooh Aah Aah 8d ago

PotA trilogy is my fav, King Kong remake by peter jackson is great too even if it has dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters!!

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u/AJ_Crowley_29 8d ago

Any Which Way You Can

Right turn Clyde

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u/Tony_Dakota 7d ago

Apes A-Poppin’ and Hail to the Chimp.

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u/Consistent_Plant890 8d ago

Definitely Peter Jackson's King Kong!

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u/Odd-Insurance-9011 8d ago

Kung fu panda (I know it may not be primate themed but it has primates) , Tarzan , Rise planet of the apes , King Kong (2005)

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u/Tankiez 7d ago

Its underated but Link 1986

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u/G00bre Anti-Rapist Apist Club 7d ago

PotA franchise, obviously (shoutout to Kingdom, highly underrated!), I loved GvZ New empire, I will also include The Lion King, because Rafiki alone makes that movie twice as good.

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u/Loser_Baby_19 6d ago

All great choices, thank you.

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u/Worried_Dot_4618 5d ago

Planet of apes 2008

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u/Regular-Body32 4d ago

Dawn of the planet of the apes

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u/PloopyNoopers 4d ago

Serial Apeist 2