Space Chimps (2008)

Director:

Kirk De Micco

Writers:

Kirk De Micco (screenplay) and
Robert Moreland (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

18 July 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator...

Plot Keywords:

Planet | Senator | Surprise After End Credits | Computer Animation | Circus

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Nov. 23

7:00 AM

HBO

Cast

Andy Samberg	...	Ham III (voice)
Cheryl Hines	...	Luna (voice)
Jeff Daniels	...	Zartog (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Titan (voice)
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Kilowatt (voice)
Kenan Thompson	...	Ringmaster (voice)
Carlos Alazraqui	...	Houston (voice)
Zack Shada	...	Comet (voice)
Omid Abtahi	...	Dr. Jagu (voice)
Patrick Breen	...	Dr. Bob (voice)
Jane Lynch	...	Dr. Poole (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Dr. Smothers (voice)
Stanley Tucci	...	Senator (voice)
Wally Wingert	...	Splork / Infinity Probe / Pappy Ham (voice)
Jessica Gee	...	Ship Voice / Infinity Probe / Additional Voices (voice)

Also Known As:

Chimps (Argentina) (DVD title) (Chile) [es]
Chimpanzés de l'espace (Canada: French title) [fr]
Chimps - Monos a la obra (Peru) [es]
Cimpanze u svemiru (Croatia) [hr]
Diastimikoi himpatzides (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
Macacos no Espaço (Portugal) [pt]
Space Chimps - Affen im All (Germany) (DVD title) [de]
Space Chimps - Micos no Espaço (Brazil) [pt]
Space chimps - Misión espacial (Spain) [es]
Uzay maymunlari (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

South Korea:All | Hong Kong:I | UK:U | Australia:PG | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:G (British Columbia) | Ireland:G | USA:G (certificate #44279) | Australia:G (re-rating on appeal) | Singapore:G | Sweden:Btl | Finland:K-7 | Chile:TE | Netherlands:6 | New Zealand:G | Malaysia:U | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT

Company:

Vanguard Animation

Trivia:

Fittingly, the teaser ad for this movie premiered on June 20th 2008 during a Fox broadcast of another 'Monkey in Space' movie - 2001's remake of "Planet of the Apes".

Goofs:

Factual errors: The chimpanzees are all small, even Houston, who is much older than the others. Fully grown chimpanzees are roughly the same size as humans.

Quotes:

Comet: What's your status?
Ham III: Single. But there's someone I've got my eye on.
Luna: Aw.
Ham III: It's Luna, in case you were wondering... Oh wait, are we talking about the mission status, here?
Houston: Yeah!
Ham III: Oh, well, everything's ok but we have no way to leave.
Houston: You still got the probe.
Luna: The probe? It wasn't designed to return to earth.
Titan: We'll just have to Chimprovize.
Ham III: You know, I kinda missed your stupid puns.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Soundtrack:

Pops Got The Measles

Not that bad!

Everyone seems to be hating this movie, and i don't really understand why? Shrek3 was a way worse movie IMO and that movie currently rates in at 6,2, and I found it horrible to watch.

I do will not rate it as one of the best animation movies, but for its worth is was a short not to serious little story. Some of the jokes were prettey lame, but fun non the less.

The morale is clear, its even stated when grandpa monkey turns up on the way home.

Anyways, I've seen a lot of movies. A lot of em serious, with big underlying points to me made and movies you can spend a lot of time speculating about afterwords. This movie though is supposed to be enjoyed as it is :)