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- Chainheart, on 07/20/2008, -3/+38What exactly were they thinking releasing the same weekend as TDK?
- PopASquatt, on 07/20/2008, -4/+37If it's not Pixar, it's *****.
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -7/+34Am I the only one who's seriously sick of seeing CGI talking animal movies? Humor (or lack thereof) aside, these all look exactly the same, and they're never funny.
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -9/+34"Then I have one simple message for you:" Kid movies are for kids.
Dancing monkeys: funniest thing ever to an 8 year old. Do they sing? Even better. Is it really simple? Holy *****, they'll understand and laugh.
"It's possible that I'm holding the movie up to standards it never wanted to reach; certainly, the kids in the screening I went to seemed to be having a good enough time."
It's a kids movie. It's supposed to be dumb. - TheTaoOfBill, on 07/20/2008, -1/+24I thought it looked dumb as soon as I saw the poster. Then I was reassured by the trailer. And now yet again by this review...
- Browzer, on 07/20/2008, -1/+23I think an animated movie about chimps in space looks like "Citizen Kane" compared to "Beverly Hills Chihuahua":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNDp03udhg - SteveThePlank, on 07/20/2008, -2/+23Space Chimps looks almost as bad as Meet Dave.
- DanPlainview, on 07/20/2008, -1/+20How dare he belittle the milestone of cinema that is Space Chimps!
- ChileanGoD, on 07/20/2008, -1/+18Yeah, after WALL-E's success let's animate every ***** possible creature's adventure into space.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486321/ - NeoCortex, on 07/20/2008, -2/+19I disagree. There were many movies I watched as a kid that are still enjoyable as an adult. Or at the least, not painful to sit through as an adult. All of the original Disney animated movies, for instance. Just because a movie is aimed at children doesn't mean it gets a free pass a being a piece of *****.
- jull1234, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15Before Wall-E, I was treated to a 'Fly Me to the Moon' preview followed directly by a 'Space Chimps' preview, which was then followed up by a preview of the soon to be epic 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'. I felt dumber and a little scared.
- DanPlainview, on 07/20/2008, -0/+15That TDK is too dark for the audience that Space Chimps is aimed at. This movie seems to be trying to capture all of the family friendly audiences that will not see batman because it is too dark and violent. Those people and people with little kids.
- Meccabilly, on 07/20/2008, -1/+15Pitch Meeting:
Exec: Ok, so what you got?
Pitcher: Ok. Are you Ready? Monkeys..... In Space.
Exec: Sold!
Pitcher: Wait, there's more...
Exec: No need! That's perfect. Heres 40 mil - get it made!
Pitcher: Sweet. - Xihix, on 07/20/2008, -0/+12The fact you went and spent money on this at all makes me feel sad for society.
- ousthouse, on 07/20/2008, -3/+15I think it takes more than a few weeks to make a full length cgi movie.
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+11Bugs life? Make ants.
Finding Nemo? Make "shark tale"
What else we got? Wall-E and "space chimps" - seantubridy, on 07/20/2008, -0/+10If you're bringing your 3 year old to see TDK, I feel sorry for you, your 3 year old and the audience.
- CasinoJack, on 07/20/2008, -0/+9I cried blood after watching that trailer.
- neel360, on 07/20/2008, -2/+11Am I the only one whose trust of an article plummets the moment I see a misspelling? It's like, this article didn't matter enough to you to even use a spellchecker? Hell, my Digg comments matter enough to me to pay attention to my spellchecker.
convaluted =/= convoluted - lazyrussian, on 07/20/2008, -0/+8Ah, the mormon folk.
- Traiklin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+8whoa whoa whoa, Now let's not say anything we will regret saying later.
- Meccabilly, on 07/20/2008, -0/+7If i ever meet who made that film i swear i will kill them. I'm beign serious. I don't even mind if i get the death penalty. They deserve it.
- kyle212, on 07/20/2008, -1/+8This is like Homers dream movie
- ChileanGoD, on 07/20/2008, -1/+8...but I like Madagascar.
- iSinned, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Space Chumps
- andejp12, on 07/20/2008, -0/+6Totally! Especially since these have the exact same audiences.
- Gimli, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6These CGI movies are getting way over saturated and this just goes to show how much so.
- seantubridy, on 07/20/2008, -0/+5Your 10 year old doesn't sound too smart.
Ouch. Did I just insult someone's kid? That's a new low, even for digg. - inactive, on 07/19/2008, -6/+11werd
- AirportManager, on 07/20/2008, -1/+6you mean Deep Star Six.
- inkyblue2, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4"maybe this way no one will notice."
- VitriolAndAngst, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4I saw it and my three-year-old was entertained. When he is four, is suspect that will be the cut-off for it challenging him. They had kind of cool alien landscapes, but most of it wasn't as good as a bad episode of --- I don't really know of cartoons that are this bad anymore.
Weak jokes, annoying goof-off character, nothing for the adults like Wall-E. Very forgettable. - HP844182, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4It still can't be as bad as Beverly Hills Chihuahua looks
- JaredRR, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4I went yesterday... it was a kid's movie... and my kids loved it. Ages 10 and 5. The reviewer compared it to the Venture Brothers... he's not the target audience.
- GoneFishing, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4Oh, by the way, my IMAX showed space monkeys ... SPACE MONKEY!!! instead of TDK.... way to go @MC.
- inactive, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4Not all kids are so easily amused though; my 3 year old said "This is stupid" during the trailer.
Then again, he also loves Terminator and Daft Punk, so I'm not sure he counts. - Smaulz, on 07/20/2008, -0/+4I made the mistake of taking my girls to this one on Friday, (I was suckered in by the trailer). They seemed to enjoy it. I just spent the time trying to gouge my eyeballs out using only popcorn husks and a bent straw.
- doctordbx, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4Wall-E took 4 years... but it is hands down the best animated movie I have ever seen. Not just on the animation, but it had a fantastic story line as well.
- macofish, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Project X; w/Mr. Bueller himself.
- ndfn8, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3You're telling me. I went to see TDK and some douchebags brought their 2 year old to the theater. WTF.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3From the poster I got two things that usually spell disaster. One. It was a movie completely revolving around monkeys. Usually when that happens the writers rely solely on "hehe monkeys are funny" jokes. I also had a face in palm moment when I read the tagline. "On July 18, go bananas". That just screamed this was going to be a cheesy "hehe monkeys are funny" movie. I did hold myself back from judging it too much because I thought okay maybe this might be a cool story about the original test apes that we launched into space. Then I saw the trailer and they were on planets and with aliens and wormholes and *****. So that took away my hope that a good story could come out of it.
And of course now we got this review. - inactive, on 07/20/2008, -1/+4Yes, exactly. Wall-E's production has been known for a LOOONG time.
- jrbrewin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3totally 100% agreed.. but out of the three, chimps looks more entertaining... by only a whisker
- elister, on 07/20/2008, -0/+3Welcome to the world of Hollywood.
When James Cameron was making The Abyss (and it was taking too long to complete) studios were able to crank out Deep Space 9 and Leviathan. Boring sci-fi's about underwater aliens that got to the big screen months before Abyss late August premier. - cnot3, on 07/20/2008, -1/+3Bugs life was a ripoff in its own right. Hey, lets remake The 7 Samurai, but with Bugs! Should we credit it? No.
- allisonaxe, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2sadly, those audiences still managed to invade the screens where "Dark Knight" is showing: in the theater I was in, for the first 15 minutes there was a family that brought noisy toddlers...
that and some idiot who left his cell-phone message beep on and was texting during the film, and some stupid woman sitting 3 seats away from me who harpy-cackled at everything the joker said..... and then the sound in the left channel kept cutting in and out for the first 30 minutes.......
I've had it with movie theaters. i've tolerated it for a while, but ugh, NO MORE!
...until something else i really want to see comes out, i guess. *sigh* - sdellboy, on 07/20/2008, -4/+6Its films like this that make you yearn for the days of the Hollywood script-writers strikes...
- aladrin, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2I thought exactly the same of the movie poster. It was obviously aimed at kids with no effort towards adults. Saturday morning cartoons would be more entertaining than it.
Yes, all from the posters. They were amazingly expressive of how crappy this would be.
I didn't need the trailer to confirm my suspicions, but that's exactly what it did.
I can't imagine why -anyone- went to see this. - Spartandog, on 07/20/2008, -0/+2Using the excuse "It's for kids" should never be a reason to make a crappy film. There a many timeless classics that still hold up years after we've grown up. The reason? Good writing and directing, and people who cared about making a good movie. These disposable films, meant for "family entertainment" become landfill in no time.
- Cuchanu, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2Very
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