Ape vs. Mecha Ape

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.

2023 and we are still stuck with white man being the savior of the planet after a white man creates to threat to the planet. Can we ever have a movie where it's not playing up to the same old worn out nonsense that we have seen since the dawn of motion pictures? It is getting too predictable nowadays with these script writers and these movies following the same path time after time after time. Which is why I has been watching foreign films that have actors of different nationalities and offer something new to view. This was a total waste of my time and I wouldn't suggest this to be on anyone's watch list.

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.

If ASYLUM is trying to become the western sci-fi pinnacle, of ridiculous fantasy films, to take top place away from the Japanese studios they are wasting their time! It took Japan 30 years plus of making the likes of Godzilla films to firmly cement top position in Creature feature action sci-fi.

The main letdown of this debacle was the little screen time of any actual fight scenes between the subjects of the films title. They actually only fight twice on screen and both for very short times and, the choreography of the scenes was ludicrous. The Gatling arm mounted machine gun, that Mecha Ape uses, would have ripped Abe (the apes name) to shreds; no matter that he was 45 feet high in size.

Sharknado, for me, is the worst of the production releases from the ASYLUM studios but, this is a very, very, very close second!

There is way too much ridiculousness about this film for me to include in this review. If you really, really must see how bad it is then, you are going to have to watch it!

The 2 Ape models do look very good however. They are not up to the high standards of the latest King Kong and Godzilla special FX though.

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.