Like the summer's other worthless space sputum - the insect suckiness known as Fly Me to the Moon - Space Chimps fails to offer up anything imaginative, original, or inventive. That's right, a radiant little alien with a head shaped like a pert female breast offers up a second act slice of surrealism that will have parents perplexed and young male viewers discovering some pre-pubescent 'problems' sitting still. And let's not even discuss the glowing tit that plays an important part in the narrative. Sure, the genre has come a long way since Woody and Buzz traded Pixar-plotted quips, but Space Chimps definitely represents the low end of the 3D totem pole. The cartooning here is flat and lifeless, about a single step ahead of the Veggietales in the faked photorealism department.
Instead, it relies on the tired (there needs to be a moratorium on Patrick Warburton in kid-friendly films, period), the typical (Jane Lynch) and the flat out odd (Adam Samberg? Cheryl Hines? Stanley Tucci?) to bring its uninterested images to life. Voice work can make or break a CG effort, and studios have been known to gimmick up the casting to guarantee success. Of course, it just goes on, and on, and on, and on.
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By the time our tiny warriors face off against the blob like beings from the pixie stick galaxy, we just want the movie to be over. By making the monkeys more human than the actual people in the plot (and stop complaining - 're going with generic genus descriptions here, not zoological accuracy), the fun is forcibly zapped out of the movie. What should be a celebration of all things ape, a collection of comedic gold as only a bunch of anarchic animals can provide is instead retrofitted into a standard hero/villain dynamic, with a tyrannical alien in perpetual Paul Lynde mode and more tired pop culture references than a sampling of Shrek. Now, if none of this makes sense, don't worry - this colorless CG slop doesn't either. When is a chimps in space movie NOT a chimps in space movie? When it's the uninspired and insipid Space Chimps, that's when. 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. How can anyone screw this up - monkeys in space? Come on, the concept practically writes itself.
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