Space Chimps: Critic Reviews

While candy-colored graphics should dazzle kids, Space Chimps has little draw for audiences spoiled by the Pixar-given knowledge that CGI can entertain -- and not just stupefy -- moviegoers of any age.

Journalism is all about having the courage to write the truth even if it will get you mocked by your relatives and co-workers, so here goes: Space Chimps is hilarious.

Space Chimps isn't so terrible - unashamed kids stuff that addresses no bigger question than how to pee in a space suit.

Only a truly dreadful story could make 81 minutes seem like an eternity. And Space Chimps is just that leaden experience.

[It's] like they ran out of the $292.96 budget halfway through.

A bland tale.

Space Chimps is delightful from beginning to end: A goofy space opera.

Space Chimps sucks a whole lot of talented people into a wormhole of lousy.

The film's creators haven't learned the Pixar strategy of creating a resonant story as the foundation of a film. So we get a formulaic tale of a lazy nonconformist who learns to take his responsibilities seriously and saves the day.

It'll keep the kids entertained for a while and give their parents a chuckle or two along the way.

As light as a banana souffle and about as substantial.

When it comes to chimps and space, Stanley Kubrick pretty much covered the topic.

One of those cartoons parents at least won't mind sitting through while little Miss or Mister Eight-and-younger gets his or her chuckles at the cute talking primates.

The animated action movie nevertheless delivers -- da-dum -- more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Worse are the chimps themselves. Their bodies are realistic in all the wrong ways, with grotesque appendages and unpleasantly textured fur, while the expressions on their unadorable mugs are entirely devoid of humanity.

The CG animation is nothing special, but the characters are surprisingly fun and the story is full of enough puns, wordplay and slapstick to elicit laughs from across the age spectrum.

There's probably not enough fuel beyond cute chimps in Candyland to achieve orbit for the kids.

...strikes virtually all of the wrong notes right from the get-go...

It's likely that few people will ever even notice the success it might have been or the unremarkable failure it turned out to be.

Nothing here works. At all.

Some days you just can't resist cartoon chimps mocking William Shatner's delivery.

While it is not a transcendent flick, it will certainly provide necessary child pacification on a hot Saturday afternoon.

A film that, in a non-Pixar dominated reality, would be cleaning up at the box office. It's enough to make you laugh.