I found this featurette to be laughable, but for all the wrong reasons. They are explained further below:įirst up is "Fox Movie Channel Presents Casting Session" featurette, running for 8 minutes and 55 seconds. "Space Chimps" comes along with a cast and crew interview featurette, TV spots, and bonus trailers. "Space Chimps" is not one of these movies, no matter how hard it may try to be. We live in an age where the good children’s films are better than they ever have, offering deep characters, complicated plots, and important themes, all hidden under a mask of simplicity, teaching your children while entertaining. "Space Chimps" is the lowest denominator of children’s entertainment, and I honestly think will do more harm than good towards your kid. I beg you, if this in line with your thinking, please reconsider. The only reason that this movie must exist to for parents to put on when they need their kids to be distracted for 80 minutes. There isn’t a single funny joke, iota of passion, or thrilling moment in the movie. I’m somewhat flabbergasted that "Space Chimps" even came out in theaters. For successful animation, both need to be present. The only indicator that a character is emoting is by the tone of their voice, rather than by their body language. The characters of the film are expressionless, and are at most times nothing more than heads with a mouth moving on them. I honestly think the look and feel of this film is on par with some sort of cold medication advert from the late 90’s. This is also hurt by the fact that the character animations in "Space Chimps" are abysmal. The voice actors of the film speak lazily in their own voices, as if they know how stupid the movie they are in is, offering no real effort in creating the characters they are portraying. Some may think I’m grasping for too much out of this kid-themed-movie, but honestly, I find that argument moot, especially when over the past 13 years, we’ve been shown that children’s entertainment doesn’t need to be stupid.ĭisregarding any sort of plot elements of the movie, it really doesn’t have anything else going for it. Plot details are never explained, such as why Ham III has to go to space, or what the hell the deal is with the planet where the satellite crash lands. Every character introduction, every dialog sequence, and every moment of the film is pointless and arbitrary. My deepest apologies if my plot synopsis seems to be a bit hard to grasp, but I like to think that is because I am attempting to explain a near-incomprehensible mess of a film. These two professional chimps have to put up with Ham III’s wacky antics as they chase the rogue satellite into an alien world where this evil dude ( Jeff Daniels) has enslaved his people to build a casino or something. He is joined by Luna ( Cheryl Hines) and Titan ( Patrick Warburton). Ham III is tapped out of his gig at some sort of circus because of his celebrity status. After a NASA probe gets sucked into a wormhole, the organization sends a team of chimps in after it. "Space Chimps" tells the story of Ham III ( Andy Samberg), the grandson to the once famous chimp astronaut Ham I. Even though these jokes all tend to fall completely flat, this animated shipwreck falls victim to many pitfalls that other Pixar imitators tend to fall into: There is virtually no character development or story to speak of what so ever. "Space Chimps" attempts to offer its audience a dose of subversive humor mixed with slap stick, a formula executed with finesse under Pixar. Enter "Space Chimps," a short feature-length animated film directed by Kirk De Micco. I honestly feel that through the past 13 years, ever since the release of "Toy Story" (1995), Pixar is the only studio to release a CG family film right, and everyone else is trying to hop on the band wagon. I have an inherit suspicion towards any non-Pixar computer animated family film.
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