Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 59
Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 11
Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world.
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Jeff Daniels, Stanley Tucci, Cheryl Hines, and Andy Samberg lend their voices to this computer-animated comedy following the descendants of the first chimps in space as they blast off for fun and adventure on a far-away planet. Ham III (Samberg) is the grandson of Ham, the first-ever chimp astronaut. This ne'er-do-well chimp may not be the most qualified ape for the job, but a scheming senator (Tucci) has recruited him for a most dangerous mission. It seems that a powerful tyrant (Daniels) has
G, 1 hr. 21 min.
Jul 17, 2008 Wide
Nov 25, 2008
$29.9M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (93) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (62) | DVD (14)
I have to admit, there's a sort of dopey, cute, harmless charm to this movie. It actually doesn't stink.
Only a truly dreadful story could make 81 minutes seem like an eternity. And Space Chimps is just that leaden experience.
The animated action movie nevertheless delivers -- da-dum -- more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
There's probably not enough fuel beyond cute chimps in Candyland to achieve orbit for the kids.
When it comes to chimps and space, Stanley Kubrick pretty much covered the topic.
A bland tale.
...strikes virtually all of the wrong notes right from the get-go...
I doubt many adults are going to like this film a lot, but the kids might enjoy it quite a bit.
Not exactly a loaded disc, the extras here are limited to an episode of the Fox movie Channel's 'Casting Session,' a set of television spots and a still image gallery.
It's likely that few people will ever even notice the success it might have been or the unremarkable failure it turned out to be.
Nothing here works. At all.
Some days you just can't resist cartoon chimps mocking William Shatner's delivery.
A film that, in a non-Pixar dominated reality, would be cleaning up at the box office. It's enough to make you laugh.
Space Chimp's narrative pendulum swings illustrate, in contrasting fashion, the care, depth and shading given to storylines by Pixar and creators of other top-shelf animated fare.
While it is not a transcendent flick, it will certainly provide necessary child pacification on a hot Saturday afternoon.
It's pretty much your run-of-the-mill CGI effort (and remember the days when the technology used to inspire 'ahhs and ohhhs?').
There is genuine sparkle in the voice work and more than a few jokes that really do hit the sweet spot.
A movie called Space Chimps ought to be cheap, crude and silly, and this computer-animated lark delivers on all fronts.
Space Chimps has a very interesting premise that might have made a good movie if it also had good animation and less monkey puns.
November 6, 2011
Super Reviewer
Surprisingly very good
January 2, 2011Super Reviewer
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