Review of Planet of the Apes

Classic little sci-fi flick. Serling's intelligent script makes the film more than just a movie about people in monkey suits. There is a little bit of everything in this story. Elements of Orwell's "Animal Farm", the Scopes Monkey Trial, the debates on nuclear disarmament, racism, and animal rights. The film is actually very deep intellectually even if on the surface it seems unintentionally funny at times. (Warning, spoiler ahead.) A major problem to its plot is that it never explains how spaceman Taylor doesn't realize he is back on Earth until he sees the Statue of Liberty. Surely he would know he was home as soon as he hears the apes speaking English!