Synopsis
A nature documentary centered on a family of chimps living in the Ivory Coast and Ugandan rain forests.
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Cast
- Tim AllenNarrator (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
New York Daily News
Chimpanzee lets everyone feel like a mini-Jane Goodall. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
Kids should especially like this magnificent and heartwarming look at the life of young Oscar. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
No amount of gorgeous jungle footage can make up for the fact that this Disney-produced documentary feels about as natural as an episode of "The Hills," though with (slightly) more feral characters. - 70
Time
It has plenty of charm and is filled with astonishingly intimate footage worth seeing on the big screen but is sketchy on details and dumbed down by cutsy, anthropomorphizing narration. - 63
Slant Magazine
The astonishing footage of apes in their natural environment is made perfectly accessible and then nearly undone by a narration track that plays to the audience's basest desires for gag-inducing cuteness. - 60
Variety
Visually stunning, almost impossibly intimate results. Unfortunately, this footage is welded to a creakily executed story and narrated by a schticky, frequently bellowing Tim Allen. - 60
Village Voice
Throughout, narrator Tim Allen shuttles between a jokey primer on chimp society and a basic play-by-play during the more action-packed scenes - the constant stream of explanation often detracts from the heart-of-the-jungle sights and sounds on display. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Some privileged nature footage from the African rain forest is dishonored by deeply silly narration in Chimpanzee.
