Space Chimps

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Space Chimps

G

2008

1h 21m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Ham III (Andy Samberg) is the grandson of the first chimpanzee who first blasted into outer space. He and two other chimp astronauts go on a dangerous mission through a black hole. Landing on an inhabited planet, the space-faring simians must help depose a planetary tyrant, then find a way back to their own world.

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Critics Consensus

Space Chimps' cheap animation and overabundance of monkey puns feels especially dated in a post-Wall-E world.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

10/18/2008

2.5/5

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

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

09/19/2008

2.5/4

A movie called Space Chimps ought to be cheap, crude and silly, and this computer-animated lark delivers on all fronts.

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London Evening Standard

08/01/2008

2/5

The film is pacy, full of humour rather than thrills and not too long. Not for connoisseurs of animation but fun for the young.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/24/2020

2.0/4.0

The weakest of Summer 2008's animated entries.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

02/06/2009

1.5/4

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

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

01/12/2009

61/100

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.

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Ciaran S

@TrainMultifan26 May 21

When you create a movie filled with a weak story, unfunny jokes, terribly outdated animation, annoying characters, dumb gags and cheap modern pop-culture references......yeah that's the best way to describe Space Chimps in a nutshell.

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Ben P

@RT03959963 Mar 13

It was good, I guess. Nothing extraordinary, but worth a watch. The lip-syncing isn't the best, though.

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Sillyicyfemale

Dec 27

33 at the same time at rotten tomatoes and popcorn meters. No way this movie rocks

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Makenzie K

@RT95837877 Jul 30

This movies like aids This movies like aids, it's something you find out about you think yea it's bad but is to really it is, as you experience it you see that it's bad ... like aids. After a while you kinda forget about it but just some random thing reminds you of it and then boom you remember how bad it is untill your brain forgets again.

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Abraham S

@ItsAbe 07/17/2025

Wtf even is this movie💀

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Goose O

@RT69327233 05/14/2025

I have a lot of nostalgia for Space Chimps. On the rewatch I still really enjoy it. Its the definition of dumb entertainment and I love it. Space chimps knows what it is and it has a stacked voice cast that really makes the movie. If not for the harrassment jokes it would be a great movie. I still like Ham and Luna's banter its just the fact that its romantic that makes it creepy.

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Synopsis

Ham III (Andy Samberg) is the grandson of the first chimpanzee who first blasted into outer space. He and two other chimp astronauts go on a dangerous mission through a black hole. Landing on an inhabited planet, the space-faring simians must help depose a planetary tyrant, then find a way back to their own world.

Director: Kirk DeMicco
Producer: John H. Williams, Barry Sonnenfeld
Screenwriter: Kirk DeMicco, Robert Moreland
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Vanguard Animation
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 18, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $30.1M
Runtime: 1h 21m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)