What do you get when you send three chimpanzees to space? You get Space Chimps of course. I know, lame pun but boy was there lots of chimp puns in this animated flick! As the story goes, in 1961, before man took that first step, it was a chimp that was sent off to space. His name was Ham (this is an actual fact!), and the story centres around his grandson Ham III (Andy Samberg), a circus performer who is shot out of a cannon on a daily basis. Clearly he doesn't aspire to follow his grandfather's footsteps.
When a billion-dollar space probe gets sucked into a wormhole, NASA plans to send chimps through it to see if they can survive the journey to the other side. This is to pave the way for future human travel. As a publicity stunt, Ham III is recruited to join two trained chimps, commander Titan (Patrick Warburton) and co-pilot Luna (Cheryl Hines) for this space mission. Ham surprisingly withstands high G-levels with ease where his two partners would pass out, but he kind of screws up everything he does and threatens to place the mission in jeopardy.
The story actually moves at breakneck speed. Before you know it, three chimps are actually off to space. While this all seems rather promising, it all goes haywire the moment they unveil a planet with retarded-looking good gooey green aliens and an ugly evil alien named Zartog (Jeff Daniels), who uses the missing space probe as a method of enslaving the inhabitants of the planet. It is almost as if they were from two different movies and put together, with animation not really fitting together. Do watch out for Kilowatt (her full name is ridiculously long!), a peculiar big-headed creature who generates lots of laughs.
While there are a number of genuine laughs in this movie, there seems to be too many chimp puns and a number of cliché jokes. Overall it should be colorful fun for the young, but older audiences might find the jokes a little thin. The chimps may be cute, but they are far from giving Bolt a run for our favourite dog's money.
2.5 out of 5 Stars
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