A dorky animal lover father brings home a murderously cuddlesome female chimp named Tereza from his latest around the world exploits. He adopts the shrill, repulsively overaffectionate little bugger as a pet. Of course, the guy's bratty youngest son adores the foul beast, but the dude's bitchy wife and bullying older son vehemently disapprove. Things reach a full boil of sorts when a bunch of undisciplined juveniles kidnap Tereza and the previously estranged family all pull together when Tereza's absence makes the whole sickening wholesome clan realize how much they truly love her. Yep, once again the heart-tugging sappiness is showered excessively on the luckless viewer with an appalling lack of both restraint and subtlety. Further ruined by Josef Pinkava's prosy, zestless direction (Pinkava also co-wrote the cornball script), plenty of tedious extraneous filler (bicycles riding down the street, Tereza running amok in a school, assorted asinine animal antics at the zoo, a picture-taking outdoor excursion, and so on and on ...), a slumberous, more slow-than-two-turtles-mating pace, Angelo Michajlov's mechanically bouncy cutesy-poo score, a rambling, barely coherent, largely uneventful narrative, stiffer-than-cardboard acting, numerous excruciatingly fumbled would-be humorous moments (the gorilla puffing on a cigarette gag is especially lame), and one genuinely hair-raising scene in which the crack-voiced youngest son shriek-sings over the phone in a broken, nasal, pain-peeling quasi-soprano whine, this deservedly obscure family feature dud overall sizes up as a total worthless stinker.
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