Space Chimps (2008)

Director:

Kirk De Micco

Writers:

Kirk De Micco (screenplay) and
Robert Moreland (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

18 July 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator...

Plot Keywords:

Planet | Astronaut | Senator | Cavern | Self Sacrifice

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Andy Samberg	...	Ham (voice)
Cheryl Hines	...	Luna (voice)
Jeff Daniels	...	Zartog (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Titan (voice)
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Kilowatt (voice)
Kenan Thompson	...	Ringmaster (voice)
Zack Shada	...	Comet / Nava Boy (voice)
Carlos Alazraqui	...	Houston (voice)
Omid Abtahi	...	Dr. Jagu (voice)
Patrick Breen	...	Dr. Bob (voice)
Jane Lynch	...	Dr. Poole (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Dr. Smothers (voice)
Stanley Tucci	...	Senator (voice)
Wally Wingert	...	Splork / Infinity Probe / Pappy Ham (voice)
Jessica Gee	...	Ship Voice / Infinity Probe / Additional Voices (voice) (as Jessica Gee George)
Tom Kenny	...	Newsreel (voice)
Jason Harris	...	Guard (voice)
Jay Keiser	...	Cloud of Id (voice)
Tom Jacomb	...	Reporter (voice)
Curtis Augspurger	...	Reporter (voice)
Jess Harnell	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Ellie Harvie	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Caitlin McKenna-Wilkinson	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Caitlin McKenna)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eliza Bayne	...	Dr. Smothers (uncredited)

Directed by
Kirk De Micco		(as Kirk DeMicco)

Writing credits
Kirk De Micco		(screenplay) (as Kirk DeMicco) and
Robert Moreland		(screenplay) (as Rob Moreland)
Kirk De Micco		(story) (as Kirk DeMicco)
Jason Mayland		additional screenplay material
Joe Piscatella		uncredited

Produced by
Curtis Augspurger	....	co-producer
Eric M. Bennett	....	executive producer
Morris Berger	....	executive producer
Neil Braun	....	executive producer
Steve Brown	....	executive producer
Jerry Davis	....	executive producer
John W. Hyde	....	executive producer (as John Hyde)
Tom Jacomb	....	associate producer
Barry Sonnenfeld	....	producer
John H. Williams	....	producer

Original Music by
Chris Bacon		(as Chris P. Bacon)

Cinematography by
Jericca Cleland

Film Editing by
Debbie Berman

Casting by
Matthew Jon Beck

Production Design by
Bo Welch

Art Direction by
Matthias Lechner

Production Management
Clare Howell	....	production manager
Brynne Orloski	....	production manager
Liz Roberts	....	production manager

Art Department
Manuel Arenas	....	set designer
Peter Chan	....	concept artist
James Gambino	....	typesetting
Alex Hill	....	storyboard artist (as Alex Hillkurtz)
Sylvie Lacroix	....	visual development
Suzanne MacLennan	....	art department coordinator
Tom Morgan	....	storyboard artist (as Thomas Morgan)
Francesca R. Natale	....	concept artist
Christopher Near	....	concept artist
Rasoul Shafeazadeh	....	matte painter
Vitaly Shafirov	....	storyboard artist
Sterling Sheehy	....	character designer
Sterling Sheehy	....	storyboard artist
Cosku Turhan	....	assistant art director
Young Min Yoon	....	set designer

Sound Department
James Ashwill	....	foley mixer
David W. Barr	....	dialogue recording engineer
Beau Borders	....	sound re-recording mixer
Hennie Britton	....	adr recordist
Chris Egert	....	adr recordist
Simon Ellegaard	....	sound re-recording mixer
Sean Garnhart	....	sound effects editor
Sean Garnhart	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ryan Heiferman	....	dialogue recordist
Keith Hodne	....	sound recordist
James Lafferty	....	assistant dialogue recording engineer
Eric Lewis	....	dialogue recording engineer
Stefano Mascitti	....	synchronization
Kevin O'Connell	....	sound re-recording mixer
Matt Temple	....	predub mixer
James Wright	....	sound consultant: dolby (as Jim Wright)
Joel H. Newport	....	dialog recordist (uncredited)
John Soukup	....	sound transfer (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Christopher Ahrens	....	lighting artist
Shigeki Ao	....	lead modeler
Cheryl Bainum	....	executive producer: HATCH
Marco Barbati	....	lead character technical director
Jenny Basen	....	software and lighting coordinator
Tim Belsher	....	lighting artist: Vanguard Animation
Tim Belsher	....	pipeline architect: Vanguard Animation
Troy Brooks	....	pipeline supervisor
Cyril Frederick Chu	....	lighting artist
Cyril Frederick Chu	....	texture artist
Andrew Coates	....	digital compositor
Glenn Curry	....	digital effects artist
Steven Elford	....	head of layout
Steven Elford	....	head of visual effects
Marc English	....	visual effects
Adam Estey	....	compositor
Deak Ferrand	....	concept artist: HATCH
Dave Gordon	....	tools development
Erik Gronfeldt	....	character shading lead
Erik Gronfeldt	....	digital compositor
David Hall	....	compositor
Lawrence Huang	....	lead lighter
C. Jin Im	....	lighting lead
Colin Jenken	....	digital compositor
Colin Jenken	....	visual effects technical director
Gregory John Jowle	....	environments & look development supervisor
Gyuri Kiss	....	effects lead
Sara Jane Kramer	....	texture & shading artist
Danny Lee	....	digital compositor
Key Hyung Lee	....	lighting technical director
Michael Lemon	....	visual effects artist
Jing Jing Liu	....	lighting
Manuel Llamas	....	digital compositor
Daniel Lowenberg	....	digital effects artist
Russell Lum	....	digital compositor
Nick Lupinetti	....	simulation technical director
Scott MacKay	....	digital compositor
Will McCrate	....	lighting lead
Paul Mica	....	texture artist
Saybian Morgan	....	character look development supervisor
Tony Pelle	....	pipeline architect
Rudy Poat	....	visual effects artist
Edwin Poon	....	lighting artist
Matt Pursley	....	technical director
Alan Rogers	....	lead animator
Michelle Rosenthal	....	junior lighting technical director
Ran Sariel	....	lighting technical director
Andrew Schwartz	....	film finisher
Alex Segal	....	tools development
Heekyung Shin	....	lighting technical director
John Silander	....	character modeler
John Silander	....	character sculptor
Vicki Silva	....	digital compositor
Angie Young-Ji Sohn	....	lighting & compositing
George Taylor	....	compositor
Jenn Taylor	....	animator
Kieran Tether	....	lighting and compositing artist
Jeff Tetzlaff	....	environment modeler
Jeff Tetzlaff	....	lighting artist
Rolph Thomas	....	lead compositor
Graeme Tung	....	lighting artist
Brian van Zanden	....	rigging td
Ruslan Vasylev	....	character modeller
Bernie Wempe	....	lead character modeler
Daniel Wexler	....	script programmer
Chris Winters	....	lead lighter: Vanguard Animation

Camera and Electrical Department
Meghan O'Brien	....	assistant lighting coordinator

Animation Department
Imran Awan	....	character finaler
Patricia Binga	....	animator
Jacques Daigle	....	animator
Aaron P. Davis	....	animator
Anthony Di Ninno	....	animator
Jerome Fournier	....	visual development artist
Nick Fredin	....	animator
Roger Gimenez	....	animator
Francis Glebas	....	story artist
Gary Hendry	....	layout artist
Allen Holbrook	....	animator
Colleen Jenkinson	....	animation coordinator
Dennis Kang	....	animator
Eric Kingston	....	animator
Seng Lau	....	animator
Christopher Dennis Lindsay	....	animator
Michael Lum	....	animator
Dave Mah	....	animator
José Martinez	....	background designer
Ho Moon	....	animator
Tom Morgan	....	story artist (as Thomas Morgan)
Andrew Ogawa	....	animator
Fernando Pazos	....	animator
Claus Pedersen	....	supervising animator
Morgan Ratsoy	....	lead character animator
Brian Robinson	....	animator
Toby Schwarz	....	animator (as Tobias Schwarz)
Ideet Sharon-Martin	....	animator
Harald Siepermann	....	character designer
Graham Silva	....	supervising animator
Bart Skorupski	....	animator
Nicholas Smolyn	....	layout artist
Benjamin Su	....	animator
Keith Patrick Turner	....	animator
Roland Vallet	....	animator
Jordan Vanderzalm	....	layout artist
Kelsey Wagner	....	animator
Adam Wood	....	animation director
Ed Wou	....	animator
Eddie Yang	....	character designer

Casting Department
Micah Dahlberg	....	casting associate
Caitlin McKenna-Wilkinson	....	adr voice casting

Editorial Department
Tom Finan	....	supervising editor
David Hall	....	editorial assistant
Paul Klassen	....	additional editor
Tiffany L. Kurtz	....	additional editor (as Tiffany Hillkurtz)
Eric Lake	....	managing director of editorial
Bret Marnell	....	additional editor
Carl S.G. Moore	....	digital intermediate producer
Nathan Schauf	....	first assistant editor
Tony Dean Smith	....	additional editor
Graham Tucker	....	additional editor

Music Department
Pete Anthony	....	orchestrator
Jeff Atmajian	....	orchestrator
Blue Man Group	....	composer: additional music
Tom Boyd	....	musician: oboe soloist
George Doering	....	musician
Matt Franko	....	music preparation
Jim Honeyman	....	orchestrator
Joel Iwataki	....	music scoring mixer
Kevin Kliesch	....	orchestrator
Jon Kull	....	orchestrator
Robert Litton	....	orchestrator
Larry Mah	....	digital score recordist
Julia Newmann	....	additional orchestrator
Matt Novack	....	technical score advisor
Mike Nowak	....	conductor
Victor Pesavento	....	music preparation
Peter Rotter	....	orchestra contractor
Pieter A. Schlosser	....	composer: additional music
Andrew Shulman	....	cello soloist
Joel Sill	....	music supervisor
Steven L. Smith	....	music preparation
Curt Sobel	....	music supervisor
Curt Sobel	....	supervising music editor
Gad Emile Zeitune	....	composer: additional music
Matt Fausak	....	assistant music editor (uncredited)

Other crew
Jeremy Anderson	....	systems administrator
Tohru Patrick Awa	....	concept designer
Mic Berends	....	chief color scientist
Lilian Bravo	....	production coordinator
Simon Chang	....	senior systems administrator
Mary Couce	....	assistant: Mr. Sonnenfeld
Barb Dawson	....	director of staffing
Venecia Duran	....	creative executive
Steven Elford	....	head of layout
Marc English	....	production coordinator
Laura Garcia	....	executive assistant
Matthew Hampton	....	international distribution consultant
Anne Jacobsen	....	production controller
Krista Johnston	....	clearances
Ryan Letourneau	....	systems administrator
Robert Litton	....	booth: orchestra
Laura Lopez	....	studio manager: Inc.
Russell Lum	....	production coordinator
Elizabeth Pellatt	....	assistant: Mr. Augspurger & Mr. Jacomb
Joi Perle	....	assistant: Mr. Sonnenfeld
Matt Pursley	....	systems administrator
James Rose	....	systems administrator
Suzanne E. Smith	....	assistant accountant (as Suzanne Clements)
Bill Stevens	....	production accountant
Ashley Thoms	....	assistant: Mr. Williams

Production Companies

• Vanguard Animation
• Odyssey Entertainment
• Starz Animation
• Starz Media
• Studiopolis

Distributors

• Lark Films Distribution (2008) (Hong Kong) (all media)
• Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Paris (2008) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Emperor Motion Pictures (2008) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Entertainment Film Distributors (2008) (UK) (theatrical)
• Golden Village Entertainment (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Independent Films (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Pyramid (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Showtime (2008) (South Korea) (theatrical)
• Scanbox Entertainment (2008) (Finland) (all media)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (Germany) (DVD)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2009) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Warner Home Video (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Warner Home Video (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-ray)

Special Effects

• Hatch Production (conceptual art)

Other Companies

• Film Finances  completion guarantor
• Technicolor Digital Intermediates  digital intermediate

Also Known As:

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

South Korea:All | Hong Kong:I | UK:U | Australia:PG | Canada:G (British Columbia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Ireland:G | USA:G (certificate #44279) | Australia:G (re-rating on appeal) | Singapore:G | Sweden:Btl | Finland:K-7 | Chile:TE | Netherlands:6 | New Zealand:G | Malaysia:U | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/6 | Germany:o.Al.

Company:

Vanguard Animation

Trivia:

Fittingly, the teaser ad for this movie premiered on June 20th 2008 during a Fox broadcast of another 'Monkey in Space' movie - 2001's remake of "Planet of the Apes".

Quotes:

Ham III:I knew I could never become a hero, so I became a clown

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Million Dollar Movie Week 4 (#7.109)" (2009)

Soundtrack:

Do You Want To Rock

One Can See Why This Bombed At The Box-Office

Have you seen movies that almost wore you out after 45 minutes? Im talking about too much action, too much bickering and yelling between people, too much happening the screen, too loud.....just too much. You want to cry, "enough, already....give us a few lulls!" That's how found this cute-at-first animated film which starts off great but quickly spirals into the "too much" category and never lets go. Maybe I'm just too old for this sort of thing; maybe this is what five or ten-year-olds want....but I'm not surprised this animated film wasn't a hit - with adults or some kids.

Don't get wrong: there are a number of funny lines in here, the animation is great in spots, and some of the characters (i.e. "Kilowatt") are very appealing. It's just that the film feels rushed, right from the start. One can never just settle down and enjoy the stories, character and artwork. This story needed more lulls.

It also need less ("wink" "wink") inside, pretentious remarks by the writers, who tried too hard to get their PC agendas in here throughout. The "heroes," the space chimps, were always bickering among themselves. That led to some funny put-down lines but also got tiring, too, after almost an hour of it. The villain, "Zartog," meanwhile, was just plain stupid. Nobody that silly/dumb, even in science fiction, could rule anyone.

In all, it was just too disjointed and too frenetic - all the while being predictable - to enjoy. Although only 80 minutes in length, I found myself often checking how much time was left in the film.