A decidedly disapppointing, if occasionally diverting, digitally animated feature.
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07/26/08
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Space Chimps (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 59 Fresh: 22 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 4.7/10
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Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world.
Rated: U
Theatrical Release: 01-08-2008
Synopsis: Space Chimps is an intergalactic comedy that highlights the antics of astronaut chimps with the “wrong stuff." Ham III (Samberg), the slacker grandson of the first chimp blasted into space before manned spaceflight, joins two other astronaut chimps for a dangerous mission through a black... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth
Director: Kirk De Micco
Screenwriter: Kirk De Micco, Rob Moreland
Story: Kirk De Micco
Producer: John H. Williams, Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Chris Bacon
Screenwriter: Kirk De Micco, Rob Moreland
Story: Kirk De Micco
Producer: John H. Williams, Barry Sonnenfeld
Composer: Chris Bacon
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Given that we have a gorgeously-animated, beautifully-constructed interstellar fantasy like Wall-E currently in theaters, why would anybody waste their time on Space Chimps?
07/23/08
Modestly entertaining and moderately painless. Under the circumstances, perhaps it would be unfair to ask for more. In any case, you won't get it.
07/22/08
This banana-brained picture doesn't deliver. Parents will prefer shuttling everyone to a second showing of WALL-E.
07/22/08
Maybe I've been spoiled because WALL-E and KUNG FU PANDA were so good, but this is just garbage.
07/21/08
I have to admit, there’s a sort of dopey, cute, harmless charm to this movie. It actually doesn’t stink.
07/21/08
The beauty of this rather conventional, kiddy adventure is that it revels in not taking anything seriously. The script is peppered with stupid physical comedy, silly puns and dry witticisms on the concepts of space and monkeys.
07/20/08
From the animation to the plot to the characterizations, Space Chimps is second-rate goods, and that's only if you're being kind.
07/20/08
You won't go ape over 'Space Chimps.' But it won't hurt your kids to monkey around with this for 90 minutes.
07/19/08
Ham is cocky, insulting and irresponsible. In other words, if you were looking for a break from your misbehaving kids by taking them to the theater, you won't get one.
07/18/08
If the massive profits of Disney and Pixar's animated work is what inspired rival studios to get in on that action, why is no one else aping those studios when it comes to good writing and inspired characterization?
07/18/08
The movie is so routine that you welcome offbeat things like an alien who makes incredibly high-pitched noises. It's the sort of thing that might jolt you out of your sleep.
07/18/08
Only a truly dreadful story could make 81 minutes seem like an eternity. And Space Chimps is just that leaden experience.
07/18/08
Released into theaters just weeks after Pixar's WALL-E reset the high-water mark for computer generated animation, Vanguard's comparatively modest effort relies on imagination and ingenuity to overcome budgetary and technological constraints.
07/18/08
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