MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

Robert Vince

Writers:

Anne Vince (written by) &
Robert Vince (written by)

Release Date:

11 August 2000 (Canada)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Sport

Tagline:

Jack skates a little faster... Shoots a little harder... And is driving everyone bananas.

Plot:

Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall...

Plot Keywords:

Hockey | Simian Fiction | Monkey Actor

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Bernie	...	Jack
Louie	...	Jack
Mac	...	Jack
Russell Ferrier	...	Darren
Lomax Study	...	Dr. Kendall
Kevin Zegers	...	Steven Westover
Jamie Renée Smith	...	Tara Westover
Alexa Fox	...	Jane (as Alexa Benette Fox)
Jane Sowerby	...	Julie Beston
Ingrid Tesch	...	Susie Westover
Philip Granger	...	Mark Westover
Rick Ducommun	...	Coach Marlowe
Aaron Smolinski	...	Pete
Shane Vajda	...	Moose
Trevor Roberts	...	Larry

Also Known As:

Snapshot (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for some mild language.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | Netherlands:6 | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Hong Kong:I | Spain:T | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

GM Place, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Keystone Family Pictures

Quotes:

Moose: [to Steven, after slips and falls against the boards] Y'all right there, Yankee boy?
[Steven proceeds to defend himself, and leaps over the bench at him]

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Chimp's a Champ: The Making of a Star Hockey Player (2001) (V)

Soundtrack:

Coolest Looking Dude On Ice

The greatest thing ever produced by man-kind

Okay, like the guy above me, I like, totally loved this movie. Why did I love it? 'Cause it was frigg'n sweet, that's why.

See, this movie is kinda like a microcosm of society. There's like, this guy, right, who gets picked on all his life for being different. The guy, in this movie, is really a monkey (JACK I LUV U). So, when society gets a guy down, they totally go nuts and join a hockey team and smash people in the face with pucks. I learned a lot from this movie because of that! The sweetest part was when Jack was hanging out outside the hockey rink, smokin' a jay. The audience is like, "what's this street-smart go-getter planning to do?" Then, this guy who threw a cup at his head while he was getting ready to nail the puck in and win the game starts to walk out of the building. Jack, sweet as ever, grabs a skateboard and chucks it at his head and says something like "I hope you still aren't 'board'!" and then he laughs for the remaining half hour of the movie.

Words cannot describe my feelings for this movie. It brings out something powerful in me... like, I dunno, the need to play video games and eat pizza just like Jack would. There are some movies that grab you, and then there are movies which pick you up and slam you against the wall about fourteen times. This is the latter. Thank you, and god bless.