Chimpanzee Reviews

Movie Reviews

• you'll have a good idea of the annoyance level the comedian's narration provides

  by David Fear [Time Out New York ]

• with visually stunning, almost impossibly intimate results

  by Andrew Barker [Variety ]

• while the struggle for survival can seem like a battle, the script creates an unnecessary heroes-villains perspective

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• this squeamishness banishes all but the most vanilla facts and images

  by Jeannette Catsoulis [New York Times ]

• the film's breathtaking visuals, and the brave and affectionate hearts of these beautiful creatures continue to draw us back in

  by Nell Minow [Chicago Sun-Times ]

• the film is not designed to answer every question but to inspire youthful curiosity

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• the cameras are so close you assume they have to have been unmanned and placed with extraordinary luck

  by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine ]

• the burden of massaging the natural-habitat footage into an intelligible rival-families narrative, though, falls to the voiceover script

  by Benjamin Mercer [Village Voice ]

• the antagonism between the two tribes is pretty compelling, and a less condescending, fairy-taleish nature doc

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• still makes you long for something a little quieter, something like the old "Wild, Wild World of Animals" television show

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• silly non sequiturs, like "Don't forget the side salad," as the chimps revert to leaves after feasting on a dead monkey, feel childish and trite

  by Dan Hudak [Orlando Weekly ]

• in "Chimpanzee," nature is beige in tooth and claw

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

• by this time the uncredited narration, voiced in cornball fashion by Tim Allen, has made this turn of events seem like old-style Disney hokum whether it actually happened this way or not

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

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