Space Chimps
The film opens with the main character is Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut. He is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission at hand; ridding a far-away planet of their nefarious leader.
18 November 1953, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
7 April 1965, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
16 October 1964, Galway, Ireland
17 December 1965, Los Angeles County, California, USA
25 July 1969, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
24 July 1968, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA
October 18, 2008
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.
July 18, 2008
The animated action movie nevertheless delivers -- da-dum -- more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
August 01, 2008
Coupling the men-on-a-mission antics of 'Armageddon' with the catch-all sci-fi pastiche of TV's 'Futurama', 'Space Chimps' is an underwhelming slice of lowbrow CGI entertainment.
January 12, 2009
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.
July 21, 2008
I have to admit, there's a sort of dopey, cute, harmless charm to this movie. It actually doesn't stink.
December 04, 2008
Nothing here works. At all.
July 18, 2008
October 29, 2008
Some days you just can't resist cartoon chimps mocking William Shatner's delivery.
July 18, 2008
Only a truly dreadful story could make 81 minutes seem like an eternity. And Space Chimps is just that leaden experience.
October 18, 2008
A film that, in a non-Pixar dominated reality, would be cleaning up at the box office. It's enough to make you laugh.
February 06, 2009
...strikes virtually all of the wrong notes right from the get-go...
July 22, 2008
This banana-brained picture doesn't deliver. Parents will prefer shuttling everyone to a second showing of WALL-E.
