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.
| Tagline | Jack skates a little faster... Shoots a little harder... And is driving everyone bananas. |
| Release Date: | Aug 11, 2000 |
| Genres: | Comedy, Family |
| Production Company: | Keystone Family Pictures, Funky Monkey Productions, Air Bud Entertainment |
| Production Countries: | Canada, United States of America |
| Casts: | Kevin Zegers, Jamie Renée Smith, Alexa Benette Fox, Lomax Study, Russell Ferrier, Jane Sowerby, Ingrid Tesch, Philip Granger, Rick Ducommun, Aaron Smolinski, Shane Vajda |
| Status: | Released |
| Budget: | $4500000 |
| Revenue: | 0 |
Low quality, but a harmlessly fine 90 minutes. I found 'MVP: Most Valuable Primate' 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 'Blank Check'. Elsewhere, I proper thought Devin Ratray appears here as Larry, turns out he was played by Trevor Roberts - a bit of a doppelgänger! Two more of these flicks left to watch. One of the best trilogies of all-time, I'm sure.
