#Space chimps dvd full#

It's up to the primate heroes to find a way to defeat the villain and get back home before they are lost in the universe forever. The creature is using the high tech Earth satellite to intimidate and control the peace loving population. After discovering a wandering wormhole, the monkeys soon find themselves on a colorful alien planet ruled by a wannabe dictator named Zartog. On the team is the macho but dumb Titan, the level headed and hard working Luna, and in a planned PR move, the great grandson of the first ape astronaut ever, Ham III. A group of geek scientists figure that, instead of a manned mission, they will send a trio of trained chimps to retrieve the item.

So how could Space Chimps miss this easy cinematic lay-up? How did they manage to take the primate and leech out every last bit of fun, humor, and slapstick scatology? Easy - they let stunt voice casting, indeterminate CGI, and a lack of true monkey focus get in the way.Īfter a costly probe disappears in space, a budget conscious Senator with the final say re: NASA's funding wants it located. No, the ape taps directly into our non-Biblical concept of creation, like looking in the mirror and seeing our hairy, unhygienic self. Love them or delouse them, but the prehensile antics of your typical squirrel or spider star of the species are the loveliest of lowest common denominator entertainments - better than Frisbee catching dogs, a heck of a lot better than pissed off prairie dogs or cats who can play the piano. Get a few simians, an interstellar set-up and let the feces flinging begin. Kird De Micco directed based on the computer video game.How can anyone screw this up - monkeys in space? Come on, the concept practically writes itself. Samberg brings a savvy zest to his vocal duties as the Ham, Stanley Tucci is a nefarious senator and-getting big laughs with flawlessly deadpan elan-Patrick Breen as one of the trio of egghead scientists. While the animation here is not quite up to Pixar level, it's still pretty and colorful, with a pleasing Candyland quality to the alien planet surface.

#Space chimps dvd full#

Despite all the fangs, parents shouldn't worry too much not a hair on any chimp is seriously singed, and along the pratfall strewn way there's time for lessons about responsibility and realization of one's full potential.

NASA's by-the-book methods jar with Ham's mischief-making of course, but once the space training ends, the mission begins, with myriad dangers along the way, including: a big-toothed monster and a run amok alien named Zartog (Jeff Daniels) whose harnessed the previous space probe for world-domination purposes, all good opportunities for Ham III to redeem himself. A natural born rebel against authority, Ham the third is initially reluctant to go on a dangerous space mission to rescue a lost space probe, but away he goes, for lots of RIGHT STUFF-style astro-training alongside two highly prepared chimps, Luna and Titan (Cheryl Hines and Patrick Warburton). 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).