2008 · animation · family · adventure
Space Chimps
Directed by Kirk DeMicco1h 21m2008
When an unmanned space shuttle crashes on an uncharted planet, a trio of astronaut chimpanzees are launched by NASA into a wormhole to investigate.
Our read: Space Chimps (2008) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · family · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
Watching Space Chimps tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Space Chimps feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You need harmless kid animation with space chimps and goofy one-liners.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if cheap cartoon logic and weak jokes will grate on adults.
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