YMMV / Space Chimps

• First Installment Wins: The first film has a decent voice cast and a pretty good storyline. The sequel... not so much.
• Franchise Original Sin: Everything that made the second film so reviled had its roots in this film in some fashion or another. This one had just enough redeeming qualities to avoid being completely awful, while the sequel removes those qualities almost entirely.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Malgor is an alien world with technicolor flora and fauna, a material that's highly useful to our protagonists, and predominantly blue aliens with flying mounts resembling stingrays at their disposal. Yeah.
• Memetic Mutation: From a Letterboxd review◊:
  "This film has dirty crack house vibes. Somewhere in the world there is a child in a dirty crack house who watches this as a 2008 camrip on a burnt disc on repeat while their parents smoke crack."
• No Export for You: The movie was never released in Japan.
• So Okay, It's Average: The film is considered mediocre by those who don't hate it; there are certainly worse films out there, but a lot of better movies were being released even at the time. For one example, while the CGI isn't "bad" per se, there's a noticeably Minimalist Cast when it comes to the humans, and the design of Zartog's race is pretty bland.
• Spiritual Successor: The Nineties cartoon Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys was pretty much exactly the same thing.
• Ugly Cute: Kilowatt, a small and pink alien voiced by Kristin Chenoweth. The baby sounds she makes when happy are especially cute.

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