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MVP: Most Valuable Primate

MVP: Most Valuable Primate

4,8 /10 (96 Votes)
2000 EN 93 min

Overview

Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall, a researcher who been teaching Jack to communicate through sign language. Jack scrambles onto the ice in the midst of practice for Steven's junior league hockey team, and he and his teammates discover the monkey has a natural talent for the game.

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Release date

11/08/2000

Votes

96

Popularity

0.7

Jack skates a little faster... Shoots a little harder... And is driving everyone bananas.

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

93 min

Budget

$4,500,000

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r96sk

r96sk

2024-05-14

⭐ 7

Low quality, but a harmlessly fine 90 minutes. I found <em>'MVP: Most Valuable Primate'</em> to be perfectly passable. Sure it isn't a movie that requires any sort of thinking, it's very silly and would never top great film lists and/or win any major awards. However, not a single part of me disliked this as a movie. It's flimsy but watchable. The beginning also holds more depth than anticipated. Kevin Zegers and Jamie Renée Smith are likeable leads, while those chimps are cute - and convincing 'actors', btw! Rick Ducommun is also involved, always remember that guy from 1994's <em>'Blank …

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