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Space Chimps (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 77
Fresh: 27
Rotten:50
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Consensus: Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Childrens
Theatrical Release: Jul 18, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $29,942,542
Synopsis: Circus monkey Ham III (voiced by Andy Samberg) works in a circus where he's regularly shot from a canon but he still lives in the shadow of his father's legacy (Ham I was the first chimp shot into space in 1961). A natural born rebel against... [More]
Starring: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton
Director: Kirk De Micco
Reviews for Space Chimps
There is genuine sparkle in the voice work and more than a few jokes that really do hit the sweet spot.
09/19/08
A movie called Space Chimps ought to be cheap, crude and silly, and this computer-animated lark delivers on all fronts.
09/19/08
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09/15/08
A real writer would have turned this in to a great animated action flick instead of animated ADD pabulum...
08/05/08
Entertaining, nicely animated and frequently funny family adventure with superb vocal performances and an extremely witty script.
08/01/08
The film is pacy, full of humour rather than thrills and not too long. Not for connoisseurs of animation but fun for the young.
08/01/08
So, as our badly animated apes are sent to an alien planet for dull-as-ditchwater adventures with a population of little green men, the film doesn’t just stoop in pursuit of a buck, it shimmies beneath the bar to record a new low.
08/01/08
My heartfelt advice is have mercy on your children and take them to see WALL-E instead.
08/01/08
Space Chimps tries to please both kids and parents with a queasy mix of rapid-fire, Looney Tunes-y slapstick and sly pop culture references, but the surprisingly flat animation and tired jokes keep it from ever leaving orbit.
08/01/08
The animation will dazzle undemanding tots, but the writers must have been paid peanuts for a script that flings around hit and (mostly) miss gags, ranging from fart funnies to Freudianism (!), like so much monkey mess.
08/01/08
It may look half-finished, but it's bright and silly and passes the time.
08/01/08
Space Chimps isn't so terrible - unashamed kids stuff that addresses no bigger question than how to pee in a space suit.
08/01/08
Unfortunately, the film-makers assume that pre-adolescent audiences will only identify with a smug, hyperactive central character such as the Andy Samburg-voiced Ham. Still, it’s remarkable that they managed to smuggle an oral sex joke into a U-rated film
08/01/08
At a time when we are bombarded with dazzling CGI creations, the release of a film with such dull animation is intriguing. A film with clear adult aspirations held back by its supposed audience.
08/01/08
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.
08/01/08
Up against WALL-E and Kung Fu Panda this CGI 'toon looks flat and unoriginal. Who's trying to ape Pixar?
07/31/08
The best that can be said for Space Chimps is that it's utterly undistinguished.
07/30/08
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