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Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: This banana-brained picture doesn't deliver. Parents will prefer shuttling everyone to a second showing of WALL-E. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Space Chimps sucks a whole lot of talented people into a wormhole of lousy. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: <i.Space Chimps may be just a computer-animated comedy, but -- don't laugh -- it cleverly resonates with arguments favoring increased stature for chimpanzees (and all apes) with whom humans share a near-identical genetic blueprint. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Like a poorly designed videogame, it's as much a test of endurance of repetition as anything else. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It'll keep the kids entertained for a while and give their parents a chuckle or two along the way. Read more
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Michael Ordona, Los Angeles Times: There's probably not enough fuel beyond cute chimps in Candyland to achieve orbit for the kids. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Why would you take your kids to see Space Chimps, an uninspired animated feature about chimp astronauts, when you could take them instead to see Wall-E. Read more
Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: 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. Read more
Jason McBride, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A bland tale. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: When it comes to chimps and space, Stanley Kubrick pretty much covered the topic. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: 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. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Space Chimps is delightful from beginning to end: A goofy space opera. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: 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. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: The animated action movie nevertheless delivers -- da-dum -- more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Read more
Tom Huddlestone, Time Out: Coupling the men-on-a-mission antics of 'Armageddon' with the catch-all sci-fi pastiche of TV's 'Futurama', 'Space Chimps' is an underwhelming slice of lowbrow CGI entertainment. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Only a truly dreadful story could make 81 minutes seem like an eternity. And Space Chimps is just that leaden experience. Read more
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice: [It's] like they ran out of the $292.96 budget halfway through. Read more