Ape vs. Mecha Ape

Ape vs Mecha Ape is yet another masterpiece from the Global Asylum team. The military makes a giant killer "Mecha" Ape in order to defend against a giant REAL ape but things go wrong and the russinas (I think) hack the robo-ape and turn it against them. So, they have to release the real giant ape to fight against their own giant robot ape. This has all the standard cheesy Asylum tropes. Their visual effects have been getting better over the last few years, but it varies from shot to shot. Tom Arnold is the only "star" I recognized in this one. I give this a solid 6 stars. It is no Sharknado, but it's pretty good for a movie in this genre.

Of course this movie was made by The Asylum. I mean, even the title alone screams to high Heaven of a production from The Asylum. And yeah, The Asylum certainly is known for their questionable movies and their mockbusters, but every now and again they do put a wholesome movie out there.

And of course I opted to sit down and watch "Ape vs. Mecha Ape", as I haven't seen it already, and there is just something oddly entertaining about these movies that are spewed out by The Asylum. In fact, I've seen nearly all of their movies already, though most of them have been subpar. But isn't that part of the charm that is The Asylum?

Regardless, writer and director Marc Gottlieb put together a fair enough script here, though it was of course a major cash-in on the success of "Godzilla vs. Kong" movie and an homage to the "Godzilla vs. Mecha Godzilla" movie. And it actually worked out in the traditional way that recent movies from The Asylum, as the movie proved to be entertaining enough for what it was.

Of the entire cast ensemble that participated in the movie, I was only familiar with Tom Arnold. The actors and actresses put on fair enough performances throughout the course of the movie. However, it was sort of cringeworthy why the terrorists would speak English with a thick Russian accent, but I guess they didn't have actors and actresses that actually knew how to speak Russian.

Visually then "Ape vs. Mecha Ape" was okay. Sure, this wasn't top notch multi-million dollar CGI effects that will blow you away. But then again, would you expect so from The Asylum? No, right? The effects in "Ape vs. Mecha Ape" were as they were supposed to be for a The Asylum production, and they were actually fairly good with that consideration in mind.

My rating of "Ape vs. Mecha Ape" lands on an four out of ten stars.

Wow. This is a masterpiece. From the incredible acting to the extraordinary cinematography, this is cinema. Another great installment in the franchise, never failing to amuse. The plot of the movie was unpredictable, jaw dropping and I must say, it was an emotional rollercoaster for everyone watching, I'm sure of it. The CGI was on point, the apes looked so real! Truly impressed with the fact that this had such a small budget. I am truly disappointed with the other reviews though, giving this cinematic marvel a 2.7/10 is unheard of. Truly disgraceful. My wife may have left me but at least I watched this benchmark for the Hollywood industry.

Here we go again. A new year and its time for a new batch of movies made by asylum and other such companies. Im not bashing them, I quite enjoy them eve if they are bad at certain points. Ill begin with the good. Tom arnold is in this. A great veratile actor. Its a shame he dosent get much screen time as he is the best one here. The acting is not too bad all around, apart from the ones doing accents. Cgi could be better and is laughable when we see mecha ape and the other ape but its still pretty fun all things considered and overall it was a bit of fun. Ape vs mecha ape is another alright syfy movie.

I thought the special effects were pretty good, There really wusn't much.

There wasn't much in the way of fight scenes. Now I confess I stopped watching after about 50 minutes. If a movie has nothing but fight scenes or even a LOT I usually don't watch em, but this movie for me just got boring going the other direction.

I thought the acting was pretty good, i thought the special affects, the little there were, was pretty good, it was just boring. It was definitely low budget with most the scenes occurring in backyards or warehouse areas and low end offices and such Anyway, thats my two bits.