Amazing Ape
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2014341/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
This gem of a movie I found at the dollar tree. A diamond in the rough. An ape is broken out teaches a young boy with bone cancer he can be cured by stopping medication and using organic deodorant. Can’t make this shit up.
My fave Amazon review (thanks ‘Ben’):
You blew up my my ape based movie experience! DARN YOU ALL TO HECK!
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2017
Here are the basics of the story:
The "government" doesn't want their special apes anymore. A science lab wants them for aggressive hammer and saw based toupee experiments?
The science labs are run by a "Science Doctor" with a milky eye and facial scars from a "chimp related incident" (I will refer to him as Dr Milky for the remainder of this review) Dr Milky would like nothing more than to tranq a 400 pound chimp and road haul him through the woods behind a golf cart (this is a actual scene) In fact Dr Milky hates apes so much that the film opens with him preforming a shady ape for cash deal in "the jungle" which he insists on doing by himself despite also running a mega pharmaceutical company in "the city"?
Moving along, Dr Milky does have an assistant and it would seem that her primary purpose at work is to "inspect" the apes to ensure that they are ready for "experiments". She has a son whom she enjoys blowing cigarette smoke on, jamming pills into along with any other "science" food....oops her son has cancer. After a visit to the Ruffalo knock off doctor we find out that little Timmy will die of science cancer if they don't start aggressive chemo?
But hold on, the daughter of the Colonel that was in charge of the 143 (oddly specific, I know) government science apes (of which we see 3) managed to kidnap Simon, son of Enos the famous space chimp. Apparently the trip to space expanded the mind of Enos and his respective seed, hence why Simon understands how to cure cancer in 6 weeks by eating "honey" from a "beehive" with no aggressive bees stinging the holy hell out of you in the woods.
But before Simon can run his raw truth cure on Timmy he needs to hook up with a wacky homeless guy and get a hand joe in a massage parlor? Also Timmy needs to make some weird advances at his sister which his Mom points out as being overtly adult in nature...you know, comedy... Also government chimps need to have full on subtitled conversations about how one of them is Bruce Lee? And the other is scared...you know, more comedy...
Things progress, Simon cures Timmy of his terminal cancer with nuts, twigs, flowers and sunshine. Dr Milky realizes the error of his ways and in a strange whirlwind of dialogue manages to tranq a cop which somehow leads to the recitation of the pledge of allegiance?
I know what you're thinking, "although that sounds like the most delightful story it doesn't sound like enough of a story to fill up the standard length of a film" Fear not, they filled up that space with a veritable cornucopia of stock footage, you know, fly over shots of "the city" or "the jungle" or shots of apes just chillin (never mind that these apes are real and look nothing like the ape costumes used though out this fine film).
At any rate, if you would like to hate watch something made by a raw food hippie with his head jammed too far up his granola then this little gem is for you. When my head wasn't exploding with exasperated hate my sides were bursting with laughter at the horribleness of this "film".