KINGDOM of the PLANET OF THE APES - ENDING EXPLAINED + EASTER EGGS You Missed! 

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Raka was the best character in the movie ,wish he had stuck around longer.

I love how everybody unanimously referrs to Will as just James Franco.

mae planned everything from the very beginning, he lured proximus people to the eagle clan because she knows their ability to climb higher than usual, she even saw it when noah climb to get the egg on a higher place, she even put her scent on noah cloth so she can get the clan raided and conquered by proximus people, she needed their ability so she can reach the hidden entrance of the vault.

It’s a shame because as a fan, I enjoyed kingdom. But I feel like casual fans won’t enjoy it as much because of how slow this felt. Great video as always.

I think it's also important to point out with this movie that the writers seemed to have learned a valuable lesson from Star wars. Noah was really just some random guy. Yes, his father was the leader of their tribe. But at the end of the day, he was really just another member of the tribe himself. He wasn't necessarily anyone special. All throughout the movie I kept expecting them to somehow make Noah a descendant of Caesar. And I was thrilled by the end when they didn't.

The writing for the movie was unexpectedly very emotionally complex and mature, which I think has gone over a lot of viewer's heads. Mae and Noa are written as contrasts in dealing with trauma and anger. Mae is struggling to overcome her trauma, from Proximus' brutality, which affects her trust of all apes. She struggles to do what is morally sound, being impulsive due to her grief, pain, and loneliness. Noa grows and moves through his trauma and anger, in which community and family benefit him greatly in this respect - He chooses trust and not harm against those who haven't harmed him. The movie is teaching us pain begets pain (Mae), but trust and follow-through heals pain (Noa). The real enemy is unhealed trauma and what that brings. Mae's outward actions are perfect example of a person with internal conflict and unchecked feelings. Really great writing.

Small correction: Orangutan are the religious and law experts in the original movie, the scientists are the chimanzees.

I saw the movie last night and absolutely loved it. I've always been a fan of the Planet of the Apes franchise and these new movies give so much to it! I am seriously dumbfounded with how well they have done this series so far. Each story has been different. They all connect in a logical and exciting manner.

You didn't mention one easter egg. Fort Wayne, Indiana is where Taylor says he's from in the original movie.

I loved this continuation/installment. Raka was the best character. I loved Noah; i loved how they showed his fear when a problem arrise yet he still pushed foward.

Proximo despite being a villain was mostly correct in his motivations

In my theater, people gasped when may spoke and it reminded me of Caesar speaking for the first time.

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Yo they used the eagles for hunting, including fishing and mid sized land prey. They can also keep vermin from the area. Human settlements have been using Falconry for a while

Maturing is realizing Mai was the true villain of the story

So I think the astronauts are coming back too and I think they told us this in the movie…hear me out. When the main ape, Noa explained to Raka later on what he saw in the telescope he says something like “a tunnel swallowing light” at first I thought he was talking about the telescope itself and he could’ve been but what if he saw a black hole or wormhole? The same one that would soon bring those astronauts to that time.

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The aspect of Noa’s clan utilizing eagles is actually further insight of how they can and would coexist with “lesser beings,” such as humans, as both creatures can benefit from each other and thrive as a result…😉

i like how the movie in the end gave us a slight hint of the dynamics of the groups of humans that now exist in this world, 1. The people underground that never had contact with the virus at all (the woman in the hazmat suit at the end) 2. People like mae that have contracted the virus and is immune to the silencing of speech from the virus 3. the people that didnt die of the virus, but are not immune to the side effects of the virus that makes them silent, and unintelligent i mean thinking about it im really looking forward to what they do with this, its an interesting plot point having even the humans not being able to coexist with each other

The alpha~omega mutated human cult is the original children of atom in the fallout series. Lol

Aside from continuing the warped legacy of Caesar, Proximus adopted the name Caesar in part also to his heavy interest in Roman history where he saw himself as his generation's Caesar ruling over his new kingdom.

I hope Raka survives. The orangutans are always my fav’ . Of course I left the movie exactly at the end , now I wished I’d stay for the after credit moment. Have to look it up now. Thanks for this breakdown. Proximus’ death was legendary. Those eagles did their thing.

If you don’t see a character die on screen, he’s not dead. Franchise movies 101 Raka alive

In the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, the year is 2325.

Its cool that the movies are going back to the story of the original.

No one has mentioned that noa has the same scar that Caesar did after he was shocked.

I throughly enjoyed this movie. It's pace, a slow burn if you will, felt right. It endeared us to Noa, just a young ape trying to do the best he could to make his family proud... It wasn't full of unnecessary over the top action scene either.

Nice video; but you missed a small, albeit important detail from the 1968 movie. In that movie, Cornelius mentions to Taylor that human's are not allowed to speak, only apes can speak. So actually, humans in the original films lost their ability to speak because they were brutalized and banned from speaking by the apes over generations, eventually losing their speech. A much crueler way the apes dealt with the humans in the original movies...

I needed to pee so bad at the last thirty mins of the movie but I thugged it out I had a like three minute long pee after sprinting to the bathroom right when the end credits rolled I was sweating my balls off wow

I hope this movie does great in the box office because I definitely want to see more of these movies!! I can’t wait until the next one comes out

I abselotely loved this film! I can't wait what's coming next!

Raka will show up when Noa is in danger in the next film.

What a wonderful day to experience it yesterday. 9/10 movie 💯

Fun little Easter Egg: the woman in the hazmat suit is played by Dichen Lachman, who was also in the television series The Last Ship, which was also about a man made plague that wiped out the majority of humanity.

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When she was delivering the code thing at the end, I half expected it to pan up to a vew of a golden nuclear bomb, implying they would eventually become the underground humans from Beneath lol.

Another little nod to the original, when the apes are in the vault, one of them picks up a doll just like the original one and uses the exact some sound effect.

The black hole Noah and Nova saw forsure is gonna be a time travel plot device!

also in the old trilogy the apes are scared of water. The was depicted by how apes were killed by breaking of the flood gates and when Raka almost drowned.

It was clear that other than being a companion to the apes, the Eagles were also used to bring them fish.

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This whole series is biblical with the Moses thing with Caesar and now Noah

Saw the movie last night and loved it. I think each movie will do a time jump similar to the previous trilogy and set May up as our main (albeit complicated) antagonist while Noa and his clan become more educated and technologically advanced than where we left off. I also think Ryan’s correct that the telescope scene near the end of the movie shows how much Noa and the apes have yet to learn, but need to in order to “evolve”. It’ll be interesting to see where they are from an intellectual stand point in the next film.

My biggest theory is that the next movie will be the origins of the mutants from beneath the planet of the apes

Love Ryan's idea about the astronauts showing up and bring the human/ape conflict to an end. Very intriguing.

I sat though all the end credits of "War" in the Cinema, expecting some sort of teaser that the Ircarus [Mars ship] was 'back online' or something....

They use the eagles for fishing. We see eagles catch fish, apes retrieve fish from eagles, we even see their smoke house where they cook the fish. May even steals one. Most apes aren’t buoyant, they sink immediately. Which is why the water is so dangerous. Eagles are their fishing poles

Why was Mae also surprised at what she saw in the telescope. Remember, Mae at that point is thought to be feral - yet we now know she's not. So she saw something that amazed even her.

"Poeple tolerate and live together ..?" That the biggest joke i've heard in this century

The one thing you didn't touch on was Mae's origin. If she was born underground, how is she immune to the virus on the surface? Or was she born on the surface, but happened to be genetically immune to the virus and the mutated virus? Then the underground humans somehow contacted her and recruited her?

Two things 1. In the movie when Noa is talking to Raka the next day, he mentions how he saw a “light eating tunnel”, and explained Mae had the same reaction as Noa. 2. I’m pretty sure in the original movies (68) they explained that they were 2000* years in the future

movie was so fire thank you for the breakdown and always you and doug rock

This movie was everything I wanted it to be! As a longtime planet of the apes fan, there was so much to appreciate and I loved all the call backs and foreshadowing for what’s to come. I haven’t felt this much excitement walking out of a theater since Endgame!

Does anyone else feel that they killed off Proximus Caesar too soon? He could've been a great overarching villain for the rest of the trilogy.

•I loved the birds in the film 🦅 •This was a great franchise builder, loved the world its in. •W ape/other monkey characters (Rakka, Proximo, Noah…) •Space angle > Time travel

Honestly though this was the best prequel in the franchise behind "dawn of the planet of the apes " was solid beautiful film i found noah to be an interesting character pacing was great as the story wise it had a satisfying conclusion, and pretty intriguing set up for next.

11:38 That's another easter egg since Taylor said he was from Fort Wayne in the original film.

So hyped for this movie! Not gonna watch this video until I see the film, but just wanted to comment because I'm excited.

I feel like this series is now stealing the spot in our hearts and minds that was previously reserved for all things Star Wars. Loved this movie and can't wait re-watch the whole series at the earliest opportunity!

One thing that I noticed was how Noah is one of the smartest apes on the planet , so far. He repaired the stun rod without ever having studied it before. He has seen books and technology in detail including the telescope. He has seen the heavens and may have seen a space station. He wants the best for his people and seems to understand that they do not truly know everything Caesar preached, so apes need to become more advanced in order to survive and cannot completely trust anyone, otherwise they will risk destruction. I don’t want the series to be a complete recycle of the past. I would like to find out that the apes find a way to release the waters in the silo and understand the technology to become extremely intelligent equal to and in some ways exceeding present day mankind. People like May are selfish and want the entire planet for themselves, but something needs to happen to force them to come together or perish! Maybe the secret to human survival resides in humans and apes being exposed to each other’s bodies and adjusting?

Excited for the next installment Fallout of the planet of the apes Vault dwellers coming to the surface for battle.

I think William Macy's character was their version of Taylor. They never explained where he came from. If he was from the underground bases, "Nova" would've known. His defeatist demeanor matches well with Taylor's cynical one. In the end they both gave up in humanity. That being, Nova was right to take him out... he would've either volunteeringly told, or they would've tortured it out of him. A shell of the man he was.

From over the pond thank you indeed for your great critique and connections to each film and back to the originals. Brilliant!

Mae was the true villain of the movie, she doesn’t want to live in a planet with smart apes.

I never liked the original films, but they've done an exceptional job with the remakes/reboot. The care taken with each film is fantastic. I took a friend to see Kingdom & she hadn't seen any of the new films, but she loved it!

Noa got his ass beat relentlessly the whole time 💀

In the movie, wheb Noah uses the telescope he noticed a tube that swallows light in space. I believe he was referring to a black hole in which the astronauts that left three hundred years ago will return from.

That funeral scene at the beginning had me tearing up instantly. Just to see Maurice, Rocket, and little Cornelius again, doing the “apes together strong” motion… Man! Heart stings tugged

Interesting to see that the wild humans can still produce proper clothes.

Fun fact, Ryan Arey's first video on ScreenCrush was about Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes and why it isn't as bad as you'd think. That was about 6 years ago? And I've been a fan/subscriber ever since.

Great review

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I think you're right Ryan cuz apes and astronauts go to space all the time and it would be crazy if I open an astronaut and ape came out of a spaceship

If you weren't rooting for Proximus Caesar then you are not human.....what a fantastic character!!!

I found it had some Biblical connections as well. Caesar was like a Moses type character who left laws that were perserved by Raka and Noa is a potential Christ like figure to fulfill those laws. Also his name is Noa and there's a giant flood scene. There's also a classic Joseph Campbell crossing the threshold scene which refelcts the chase scene from the original movie.

Bortis did a great job as Raka.

So the twist at the end is that Nova/Mae is a Vault Dweller from Fallout?

I saw a preview of the movie on May 8 and loved it. Before it started, I thought from the trailer that it somehow might end where the first movie began. Not quite. The night before, I re-watched the previous installment and, unlike my first viewing, thought it was like an old WW-II movie with apes in concentration camps. Then, at the end, it was like the Hebrew Exodus, where Caesar leads his tribe to the promised land but, like Moses, doesn't get to go there himself.

Thanks for the breakdown

Great video. Actually made me appreciate "Kingdom" a lot more.

I think the next step in the evolution of the apes is learning to read. I think Noah too the children' book with him to learn the meaning of the "symbols". i was a little bit confused why the apes didn't have some kind of... cloth around their waist. why do they make photo realistic animals but no genitals? like... if I have human like apes... they could easily put some clothes on them. and why was their talking not more evolved?

I saw kingdom last night. A little slow but really thought provoking and amazing visuals

I remember watching Rise back and seeing a TV snippet about astronauts journeying to Mars in one of the young Caesar scenes, so if they wanted to bring that plotline back, they totally could have a future colony of humans come back to Earth from Mars, be confused about the current food chain, and act accordingly like in the original 1968 film, but seeing as there is the ending to Kingdom showing us what it does, maybe the astronaut storyline doesn’t need to happen. Would still be cool if it did though.

I just finished kingdom and I loved it, i didn’t think I was gonna like it so much because of no Cesar and no other apes from the old movies but the new villains were scary and that cgi is on another level omg

It was so good

The whole time travel thing is goofy in this modern day franchise…. The movie is 300 years later

Excellent analysis. I look forward to the movies to follow "Kingdom."

Ryan: love your uniform and especially that modern styled nametag!! 🙃 Brings back lots of memories...a real blockbuster!!! During the conversation between Noah and Raka regarding Mae's reaction, looking into the telescope eyepiece, there was mention of a black hole. Raka seemed to have heard it from Noah describing what he had seen earlier. Time travel is definitely in our future films. Also, where (or when) were the people who responded to the distress call into space? They stated, "Fort Wayne". 📡📡📡📡

Also the Toy Baby Doll from the Original shows up in the Fault

If they bring Mark Walberg back they will be killing it.

Awesome video, thanks

I always hoped this reboot franchise would take Beneath seriously and Kingdom did. As soon as Nao entered the tunnel and finally ended up in the underground bunker I anticipated this Serling-type ending. Yes , humans cannot be human without their weaponry, their technolgy, their monoopuolzation of violence and the means of mass destruction. The gun Mae carries is her human appendage

The next Planet of the Apes film might feature the return of three astronauts who were lost in space during a Mars Mission. Only to find a better ape civilization and most humans remained primitive. However there are a small fraction of intelligent speaking humans left on Earth.

Mae's teeth were too perfect for this world. So unreal

awsome job ! thanks for the video

As HipHop as I am,,, to Hear One of These Nights when the Eagles were coming was thirst quenching!!!

Hey Ryan do you see the characteristics between the Bible and the planet of the apes film series

One thing I didn’t really understand..Did May want to get captured and taken to the Ape base at the beach?.Or was it just a lucky break(very lucky) that she was taken to the very place to find the hard drive she was looking for from the beginning?

greetings. have enjoyed your content for many, many months & this is my 1st time in the comments. from my point of view, the original Planet Of Apes films is a loop upon itself. because of the time traveling elements. i cannot wait to see where they go next after Kingdom