Space Chimps (2008)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:33
Rotten:56
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Sep 4, 2008 Wide
US 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... [More]
Starring: Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton
Director: Kirk De Micco
Reviews for Space Chimps
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There is genuine sparkle in the voice work and more than a few jokes that really do hit the sweet spot. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A movie called Space Chimps ought to be cheap, crude and silly, and this computer-animated lark delivers on all fronts. Full Review |
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A sweet and harmless family film. Full Review |
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 1.5/4 |
...strikes virtually all of the wrong notes right from the get-go... Full Review |
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61/100 |
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. Full Review |
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1/5 |
Nothing here works. At all. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Some days you just can't resist cartoon chimps mocking William Shatner's delivery. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
A film that, in a non-Pixar dominated reality, would be cleaning up at the box office. It's enough to make you laugh. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
While it is not a transcendent flick, it will certainly provide necessary child pacification on a hot Saturday afternoon. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It’s pretty much your run-of-the-mill CGI effort (and remember the days when the technology used to inspire 'ahhs and ohhhs?'). Full Review |
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2/5 |
Cheap animation and a virtually non-existent plot pretty much destroy any semblance of potential this one-note premise has from the starting gates. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A real writer would have turned this in to a great animated action flick instead of animated ADD pabulum... Full Review |
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4/5 |
Entertaining, nicely animated and frequently funny family adventure with superb vocal performances and an extremely witty script. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The film is pacy, full of humour rather than thrills and not too long. Not for connoisseurs of animation but fun for the young. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1/5 |
My heartfelt advice is have mercy on your children and take them to see WALL-E instead. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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