Tubi Thursday: Ape vs. Mecha-Ape- New World Order (2024)

 Nothing can unite Disney and Warner Bros like The Asylum!

This is the final part (please!) of the Ape Trilogy, which was marketed to piggyback off of the planned release of the most recent Captain America Film (which was then delayed into 2025).

It's...something.

The Film opens with a Flashback/Retcon to the Film called Ape vs. Monster.

While the ship with the Ape (which was a Chimpanzee in that Film) is coming back, it crashes into a monster...somehow.

In the last Film, the US Government made a Mecha-Ape, because reasons.

After that one was hijacked and destroyed, the Japanese Government- led by the Prime Minister- funded a new one...because reasons.

They say it is for Search and Rescue, which is definitely what a 30 foot Robot Ape is for!

Elsewhere, a Cruise Ship is attacked by the same strange creature from the Intro.

This is a Plot Point and it only gets sillier as the Film goes on.

The Ape is now on his own island- see the first Monsterverse Kong Film- and upset about something our 2 Scientist friends can't decipher.

As it turns out, he knows that the Monster is coming and they have a quick fight, ending in the Ape being wounded.

The B-Plot involves the Government people- like 3 of them- trying to handle the chaos.

The C-Plot involves this Reporter- whose parents were on the cruise- spending way too much time obsessing over Port Security.
No, really.

This eventually pays off...in a great case of Tell, Don't Show.

The Mecha-Ape flies over to fight the strange creature, in spite of the protests of the Japanese PM- and grabs it to fly it into the upper Atmosphere.

The Film really cheaps out, giving you one shot of them and then just showing the lady in the Control Room instead.

Lame.

The Film promises you a battle between a giant Ape, a giant Ape Robot and, well, Cthulhu.

If you come to the Film for it, just know how much you get...

The End.

A Film I wanted to like.  Honest!

I've said this before, but I will repeat it- I want to watch a Film and like it.
Does that need repeating?

The Film tries to be a big Budget Film without having said big Budget.  It was a mistake to do something that you couldn't do.

To the Film's credit, they try to make this into the final part of a Trilogy.  It is kind of silly how they do so, but kudos for the effort.

On the flip side, they use SO MUCH STOCK FOOTAGE.  It is embarrassing to see in 2024 by (technically) a real Film Studio.

We only get about 5 minutes of big Action across nearly 90 minutes.  It's just a poor decision, kind of like giving Sean Young this haircut...

I apologize if this turns out to be her idea, but I need a Stinger.

A Film that sounds like lots of silly fun.  Unfortunately, the Film is so cheap and full of talking that most of the fun is seriously absent!