Highest-Rated Movies about 'Simian Fiction'

Planet of the Apes (1968), King Kong (1933), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), King Kong (2005), Toby Tyler (1960), Kong: Skull Island (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Simian Fiction movies.

#16. Mighty Joe Young (1998)

Storyline: The baby gorilla left in her care grows up to become a hugely tall and broad specimen by the name of Joe, living in the mountains as a mostly unseen legend among people who live there. Along comes an eco-minded emissary from a California sanctuary, who talks the jungle girl into providing safe haven for Joe at the L.A. facility. The transition is not without discomfort, but everything is aggravated via a conspiracy of poachers to get Joe into their own greedy hands!

Plot Keywords: gorilla, remake, loss of mother, hollywood california, environmentalism, jungle, child in peril ...

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#17. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Storyline: After conquering the oppressive humans in "Conquest for the Planet of the Apes", Caesar must now keep the peace among the humans and apes. Gorilla General Aldo views things differently, and tries to cause an ape civil war. In the meantime, other human survivors learn of the ape city, and decide they want to take back civilization for themselves, thus setting the stage of warring ape factions and humans.

Plot Keywords: fictional war, teacher, orangutan, nuclear weapon, mutiny, martial law, fifth part ...

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#18. Congo (1995)

Storyline: A megalomaniac C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon's Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiancé. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

Plot Keywords: gorilla, diamond, ape, simian fiction, studio logo segues into film, sign language, country name in title ...

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#19. Space Chimps (2008)

Storyline: Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand; ridding a far-away planet of their nefarious leader. Fortunately for Ham III, two of his simian peers are along for the ride.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, falling from height, florida, flower, frozen, jungle, monster ...

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#20. Konga (1961)

Storyline: Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and reaks havoc all over the city of London!!—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: kaiju, professor, mad scientist, laboratory, university, london england, giant animal ...

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#21. MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)

Storyline: Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. Jack, however, has not been making progress fast enough for Dr. Kendall's sponsor, Dr. Peabody, who has cut off his funding and sold Jack to a medical research lab. Afraid of what could happen to his simian friend, Dr. Kendall sneaks Jack out of his home in the lab; however, Jack is accidentally sent to Canada, where he escapes and is discovered by Tara, a deaf girl who recognizes Jack's sign language. Jack has an even bigger surprise for Tara's older brother Steven; Jack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's junior league hockey team, and he and his teammates discover the primate has a natural talent for the game. With Jack on the team, Steven's team is on their way to a league championship, but Jack's notoriety attracts the unfortunate attention of Dr. Peabody, who is determined to send Jack back to his new owners.—Dawkins

Plot Keywords: screaming, fainting, ice hockey, skating, doctor, simian fiction, heart attack ...

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