MXP: Most Xtreme Primate

This movie has a monkey in it who snowboards! He doesn't just snowboard he snowboards so hard and in your face that the only way to possibly describe this monkey's method of snowboarding is to call it.... "extreme!"

He is extreme to the max! If you saw the first 17 MVP movies about a primate who first is a huge hockey star, then a skateboarding star, then a huge star in about 139 other sports that there's no way the rules would actually allow him to even play, then you'll love this new movie where he is snowboarding to the extreme!

This movie has tons of drama and heart as you will wonder if the monkey will succeed in the end. Sure he did it in all the other movies but will he succeed again in yet another sport? Surely he can't be a champion in every sport he tries can he?

More important than that this movie has all kinds of "monkeying around" if you know what I mean.... monkey jokes is what I mean!

My score is 600 billion stars!

Most likely pre teen kids will like it. adults wont, but theyll be hppy the kids did. expect the same of any rated G movie. i watched it knowing it would be terrible, but i was curious to see the chimp snowboarding. i assumed it would be a short human in a chimp mask, but this chimp really did snowboard. didnt look like he had problems catching an edge either. the chimp also made me lol a few times doing other chimp stuff, like making funny faces. mid range score averaging kids and adults joy for this film

In Britain, there is a drink called PG Tips. It's a kind of tea. It's quite nice. I personally enjoy it with a splash of milk and two generous spoonfuls of sugar. During the 90's it was the biggest selling tea in Britain, even outselling the tea conglomerate Typhoo. The reason for this was a clever marketing campaign featuring even cleverer monkeys who read the newspaper and erm, drink tea and stuff. During the 70's, the chimps were taken off the air only to be brought back 18 months later with PG tips facing rapidly declining sales. See? Chimps can do good stuff. In the name of moderniazation and er, animal rights (what's that?), the chimps have again been taken off the air and replaced with claymation bird models. However, clever Hollywood types sat up and took notice. People like monkeys. They look like people! But funnier! Ha Ha! Funny-like-people-monkeys!!!!!! Forcibly and hungrily breast-feeding itself on the PG tips monkey's success comes MXP, where chimps do all the things they were born to do: snowboarding, shaving, cooking and faithfully re-enacting the plots of all the Home Alone movies. This is not a film not to watch because you don't like monkeys. This is not a film not to watch because you are a card carrying member of PETA. This is a film not to watch because you will gnaw your own arm off and wish you were dead. No animals were harmed during the filming. Let us hope the same can not be said of the actors, producer, director and all involved in this sad, sad movie made for (and by) people who like gnawing their arm off and wishing they were dead.

Upon first viewing I was surprised by the depth of character the talented monkey-cast presented in MXP3. The simian thespians are present in every scene, emotionally and physically, and impressively match and in some cases surpass the emotional depth of the leading boy of the film, Devin Douglas Drewitz. Young Trip-D, as he likes to be called on set, provides the movie with an obstinately melancholy performance, tantalizing the monkeys' emotional receptors like so many ripe bananas. Trip-D's angst and sorrow, expertly captured by cinematographer Mike Southon, is as palpable and inspirational as his name is alliterative. Sadly, before my much anticipated second viewing, I learned that the primate performers playing the lead role of Jack, as well as his off-set monkey girlfriend playing Lucy (quite the looker if you ask me) are active scientologists. Furthermore, these two donated the majority of their paychecks toward dianetic research. Had I been privy to this information prior to my first viewing, I never, NEVER would have spent 75 dollars on the collectors edition DVD and silver-plated palm frond from the much talked about Mexican restaurant scene.

In 2004, Martin Scorsese directed his 20th film "The Aviator", starring Leonardo DeCaprio. This same year, Robert Vince directed his 5th film, "Most Xtreme Primate". These two films were same year, and both came from legendary directors. There was only one difference, one got a lot more recognition, and the other was objectively better. Now it should be obvious to you, the person reading this review, that the superior movie between the two is without a doubt "Most Xtreme Primate". For Scorsese fans, this may come as a shock, and you may disagree with me on this. But please allow be to explain exactly why that this movie is better than Scorsese's flick. FIrstly, casting. The simian playing Jack in this film is superb at acting, and truly makes the audience think he is a chimpanzee snowboarder. On the other hand, Leo DeCaprio plays Leo DeCaprio, and all the audience can see is Leo DeCaprio in a funny pilot costume, instead of Howard Hughes, whom he is supposed to portray. Secondly, the plot. The film "The Aviator" follows Scorsese's predictable plot of a tragic hero, and details the downfall of Howard Hughes, and the events that led to his eventual breakdown. Anybody who has seen any Scorsese film would be able to predict this from the first 5 minutes, and it gives the viewer an obvious result. On the contrary, "MXP" manages to defy the trope that many film makers are forced into, by choosing to defy the current norms of cinema and do what many films are afraid to; give the protagonist a happy ending. Jack is neither a good or bad chimp, and in a Scorsese film, he likely would end by tearing someone's face off or something along those lines. But Robert Vince is not scared to provide the simian with a pleasent ending, and is with this, makes the film much more unpredictable and gives the viewer a much greater feeling of suspense. And finally, this film has one thing that "The Aviator" could never have. This film contains a chimpanzee on a snowboard. Nothing Scorsese could ever make can beat this film, and that is an objective truth.