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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 08/05/2008 : 17:22:03
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Space Chimps is harmless and passes the time engagingly while never quite knocking your socks off. Good things include some excellent voice work by a team that all know about perfect comic timing -- elevating a not-really-good-enough script to a higher level. The team-work is solid from ex-SNL Andy Samberg as Ham III, Cheryl Hines, Kristen Chenoweth, Jeff Daniels and Stanley Tucci among others.
Story's simple -- NASA's manned space program funding hangs in the balance so a probe is launched, but it gets sucked through a wormhole and onto a life-sustaining planet in a galaxy far far away. The Senator [Tucci] has to decide whether to pull the plug on the whole thing, or try to recover it.
The latter course is chosen, crewed by the space chimps who've been training in vain for years. It's how the four chimpanauts bond and develop as they encounter all the life-forms on the alient planet that holds the key to the tale.
It's all jolly enough and some very bright backgrounds and scary bits and dollops of cute sustain your inner-4-year-old along the way. I kept up on the journey, though found myself lagging a bit. But I bet real kids love it!
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Space Chimps
And at least it makes the point that sending animals into space is NOT O.K.