Play-Mate of the Apes (2002)

This movie is pretty silly, and the gorilla costumes are bad-Holloween quality. One of the gorillas is bright pink! It's kind of fun to watch, more interesting than the normal fare on Cinemax (a.k.a. Skin-emax!). I do have to say that the acress credited as the Barbarian Queen has the largest chest I've seen in movies, and is not shy to show them! Most of the sex scenes in this movie are girl-girl anyway. There seems to be a string of movies like this that spoof popular movies. Lord of the G-string is another. Same actresses, sort of funny. You can tell they're having a good time making the flick. Let's face it, if you're watching these movies, it's not for the plot.

I was at my sister's house in Queens, staying the night, and I happened to be browsing through the channels. Cinemax, forever known as Skinemax, happened to be playing this movie.It was.... interesting.I happened to stay tuned throughout most of the film, every once in a while just finding the need to shut it off and read George Gipe's adaptation of Gremlins.It was funny, and I'm being honest. It was so ridiculous that it was pretty funny. The guys in the ape suits were so incredibly cheesy that they made no effort to cover it up. There's a scene at the end where one of the girl puts on one of the ape masks, just so anyone at home who hasn't figured it out already will know that they are only masks.So there were sex scenes, then apes talking, then more sex scenes, then apes dancing, then more sex scenes, then apes fighting.You will not find much pleasure in this movie unless you have a severe Furry fettish.The best part of the movie was the disco-ball spaceship at the end. I mean, come on. You can't beat that. It's just funny. They didn't even spend any time bluescreening it. It was just a disco ball matted onto the background with some sort of blue light around it.If you're a porno addict, then I guess enjoy yourself (but not too much), but beware of guys in ape suits.If you like bad movies, then watch this right after you watch Manos and Plan 9.

This is right up there with Manos, The Hands of Fate and Monster A-Go Go as one of the worst movies ever! That aside, it is so funny (because it is so bad) that I was shaken out of my state of shock and horror that this thing found its way onto cable tv. Ed Wood would have been proud (because this director makes him look like Orson Welles).P.S. I would like to point out a few facts that don't seem to get too much discussion: 1.) The Humans (who are all white) don't have souls because they can't dance and the apes are good dancers. 2.) At one point the pink, gay ape (you have to see it for yourself) says, "Monkey Please" to another ape and we all know what the word monkey is replacing in that statement.Just a little food for thought...........

EI Entertainment has one of the hardest jobs in the world. It's safe to say that about 99% of the movies they make are pure crap. What do you get when you take a number of recycled lesbian sex scenes with some quick and unwitty humor......a Seductive Cinema Classic....which says a whole hell of a lot. Still, that 1% that EI producers is pure magic. Most of the time they just point the camera at Misty Mundae and the audience is happy. As a matter of fact, the only good reason to watch most of the garbage that EI makes is Misty Mundae. The same goes for Play-Mate of the Apes. Yes, there's some college "frat house" humor, but the only good reason this flick is worth a crap is the very innocent and very young "eye candy" known as Misty Mundae. If you don't expect much from a production company that would be out of the business if they weren't allowed to tape lesbian love action, this one is highly worth watching. Then again, if you just want to see people on screen having sex, leave this one on the shelves and go rent some XXX adult cinema like any normal person in the video store.