![]() She's a small little flesh-colored creature with an enlarged head. They befriend a strange little alien named Kilowat (Kristin Chenoweth), who the entire time she was leading them to Zartog, had me wondering if the animators had something else on their minds when they came up with her design. Now that it's under Zartog's rule, it's a much more hostile place. This being a family film, the monkeys obviously make it through the worm hole okay, but then find they have to survive on their own on this alien world. His crew on the mission include the intelligent Luna (Cheryl Hines), and the oafish Captain Titan (Patrick Warburton). He works for a circus, where his act is to be shot out of a cannon, and is taken into the space program against his will when he initially refuses. They include Ham III ( Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg), who is the grandson of the original chimp who was sent up into orbit in the early days of the space program. The scientists at NASA need some guinea pigs to see if a human could survive a trip through the worm hole, and so it falls upon a trio of heroic chimps to be sent off into outer space. Back on Earth, an oily Senator (Stanley Tucci) learns the news about the lost probe, and needs some volunteers to go up into space after it. He immediately sets about using the robot's advanced technology to enslave everyone else on the planet, and proclaim himself their ruler, forcing them to build him a palace in the style of a Las Vegas hotel and casino (one of the Earth images he happens to discover stored in the computer's memory banks). It has the misfortune of landing on the house of the planet's resident angry nut job with grand plans for global domination, the greedy Zartog (voiced by an unrecognizable Jeff Daniels). The premise revolves around an unmanned NASA search robot being sucked into a worm hole, and ending up on a strange alien world that is inhabited by a variety of bizarre creatures. I guess that's all anyone can hope for walking into a movie called Space Chimps. I smiled a couple times, I found the cast enthusiastic, and there's even a hint of imagination. As an adult, I am obviously much less enthused by the film, but found myself not entirely bored while watching it. I'd probably still prefer The Dark Knight (provided if my parents had let me see it at that age), but I'd still be talking about how much I enjoyed the film. ![]() If I were 20 years younger, you'd be reading a very enthusiastic review of Space Chimps right about now.
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