Space Chimps is a 2008 computer-animated family comedy film produced by Vanguard Animation, Starz Media and 20th Century Fox, and it was released on July 18, 2008. The film is produced by Barry Sonnenfeld, John H. Williams, and John W. Hyde and stars the voices of Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Daniels, Patrick Warburton, Kristin Chenoweth, Kenan Thompson, Carlos Alazraqui and Zack Shada. The teaser ad for this movie premiered on June 20, 2008 during a Fox broadcast of another primate/space-related movie - 2001's remake of Planet of the Apes. The movie begins with Ham III , grandson of the... first chimpanzee in space, being a cannonball at his circus and later being criticized by his grandfather's friend Houston . Meanwhile, an unmanned NASA space probe called the Infinity is dragged into an intergalactic wormhole, and crash-lands on an Earth-like planet on the other side of the galaxy. Zartog , an evil-minded inhabitant, accidentally discovers how to take manual control of the on-board machinery and uses it to enslave the population.
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| Release date: | July 18, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Kirk DeMicco |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 81 Minutes |
| Producer: | Barry Sonnenfeld, John H. Williams, John W. Hyde |
| Music by: | Blue Man Group, David A. Stewart, Chris P. Bacon |
| Estimated budget: | $37,000,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Comedy, Animation |