Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back

I'm surprised by some of the other reviews users have given this film. Comparing it to Toy Story 3, a movie with a $200 million budget, is totally unfair. Those reviewers are probably also the people who have psycho-analyzed Toy Story and found Woody to be a vampire due to him outliving his friends.

Anyway to the movie at hand. Space Chimps 2 is a return to the fun of the original Space Chimps with Zartog, the bad guy from the first movie, trying to take his revenge. I won't give too much away with the story but I will say, if your kids enjoyed the first flick they will enjoy the second. And remember, it is a movie aimed at kids, it's not a Pixar movie with in jokes and pop culture references that only adults get.

I cant give a full review of this film because I fell asleep about half way through. Costing £23 to take my family because we picked the 3D version, I'm thinking can i get my money back ? The 3D is poor the backgrounds and floor shots lack depth and the film is littered with Product placements. If i could give it zero then I would. Now you may think that this is harsh considering I fell asleep, well if the film were any good (Monsters inc for example) then i would have stayed awake. I got the gist after about 40mins and simply lost interest. This movie is and excuse to jump on the 3D bandwagon and to make more money of the back of the previous film.

Maybe as a grown-up, I am not the best qualified to rate a film that is clearly designed for children ... but this film was not designed for children, it was designed BY children - or maybe that's an insult to children. I would like to criticise the plot, except that I couldn't find any evidence of one. At no point was there any excitement and at no point was there any humour. The only piece of creativity which deserves mention is Kilowatt - probably the most irritating character whose ridiculous body, trilling, squeeking voice and general annoying script had my grinding my teeth every time she wobbled onto the screen. This showed that at least the creators were able to excel in one thing: to drive you nuts!

So, what exactly was the point of this film? I would say that the sole point was to make money, an obvious show of "Right, let's make another film about monkeys. No need to put any money, effort or imagination into it. People will watch any rubbish these days, so let's give them some crap and buy ourselves some nice cars with the profit."

The only emotion this inspired in me was irritation at how gullible I was to waste 80 minutes of my life in this way. If you want to entertain your children, I would recommend you paint their bedroom walls and allow them to watch as they dry. This would give them more fun.

2 stars is probably about right for this movie. While not offensively bad it did nonetheless feel lazy and without purpose. After some annoying voice-over the film opens with some stuff happening on earth. Some of the worst snf most awkward humour includes 3 scientists who start break dancing, the animation is passable but also not great. The main problem is the movie doesn't really have any actual stakes or interesting ideas or message. It just seems to have been made just to make it. Another gripe I have is how much time our main character spends talking when alone in a room, who's he talking to after all? There's barely a plot or story, just a small number of things happen. All in all very poor.

'The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.' It is my belief that it would be easier for a monkey to write the complete works of Shakespeare then write a film as bad as this