MVP: Most Valuable Primate

MVP: Most Valuable Primate (1999)

  • 20% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (6,988 ratings)

A chimp learns the blue lines rules of hockey (which is more than can be said for many fans) in this family oriented comedy from the creative team behind Air Bud. Jack is a three-year-old chimpanzee who has been the subject of a long-term experiment by Dr. Kendall (Lomax Study), a researcher who… More

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PG, 1 hr. 31 min.
Directed By
Robert Vince
Written By
Anne Vince, Robert Vince
Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Oct 20, 2000 Wide
On DVD
Jan 23, 2001
Keystone Entertainment

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  • Staci Layne Wilson, StaciWilson.com

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dean M


    This family movie with a chimpanzee is so funny and surprised to see a deaf girl appear to use her sign languages who befriends a chimp to communicate each other. But sometimes it looks ridiculous with lots of mistake in the scenes between a girl and chimp while they are acting. In… More

  • Dillon L


    It's a movie that follows the same formula that Air Bud followed: animal inexplicably becomes excellent at sports, so they let him play. It's shit, and it's not even original shit.

  • Steven V


    A good family movie. I have to say that this is one of the strangest movie I have ever seen. The cover really does not convey the retina burning weirdness that is MVP.

  • Yinalí R


    Awhh!

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