Post by geode on Jul 19, 2018 6:57:48 GMT
This is a movie that would probably never ber released today as it would be deemed too "politically incorrect"...even the end credits needed to be censored due to a character's name when this first ran network TV.
About 20 years ago I bought a laserdisc of this and my jaw dropped when I got to the end....it went off the rails in terms of bad taste. It was not the original ending in the theatrical release. I did some research and discovered that this had been the original ending, but preview audiences reacted against it just as I had done, and a new one was added. Why somebody thought to revert to the original ending, with no warning on the video cover, is beyond me. Being offered as an alternative ending would have been OK but this was not what was done. I felt cheated and have never watched it since.
I have seen multiple reviews online that claim the "happy" ending was added for the re-issue in 1975 titled "Going Ape" but they are wrong. They are probably too young to have witnessed the original theatrical release. I count the first theatrical release as the "original" not an "alternative" as some claim it is.
It is a funny film, but if you are easily offended I would avoid it. However, nobody complained in the theater I worked in where it ran in 1970.
About 20 years ago I bought a laserdisc of this and my jaw dropped when I got to the end....it went off the rails in terms of bad taste. It was not the original ending in the theatrical release. I did some research and discovered that this had been the original ending, but preview audiences reacted against it just as I had done, and a new one was added. Why somebody thought to revert to the original ending, with no warning on the video cover, is beyond me. Being offered as an alternative ending would have been OK but this was not what was done. I felt cheated and have never watched it since.
I have seen multiple reviews online that claim the "happy" ending was added for the re-issue in 1975 titled "Going Ape" but they are wrong. They are probably too young to have witnessed the original theatrical release. I count the first theatrical release as the "original" not an "alternative" as some claim it is.
It is a funny film, but if you are easily offended I would avoid it. However, nobody complained in the theater I worked in where it ran in 1970.
