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MVP: Most Valuable Primate

Comedy · Family

MVP: Most Valuable Primate

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

4.8(96) 8/11/2000 1h 33m
ComedyFamily

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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Top Cast

Kevin Zegers

Kevin Zegers

Steven Westover

Jamie Renée Smith

Jamie Renée Smith

Tara Westover

AB

Alexa Benette Fox

Jane

Lomax Study

Lomax Study

Dr. Kendall

Russell Ferrier

Russell Ferrier

Darren

Jane Sowerby

Jane Sowerby

Julie Beston

Ingrid Tesch

Ingrid Tesch

Susie Westover

Philip Granger

Philip Granger

Mark Westover

Directed by

Robert Vince

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r96sk

7/10

5/14/2024

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 Check'</em>. 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

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