Space Chimps, Clone Wars Posters
Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros. Movies Come This Summer
Check out some new posters for Space Chimps and Star Wars: The Clone Wars, two animated movies coming this summer.
Latino Review is taking viewers into outer space, showing off a couple of posters for Space Chimps and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Space Chimps Poster
The first trailer for Vanguard Animation/Twentieth Century Fox's Space Chimps wasn't too promising: referencing at least four other movies for laughs within the space of a minute does not bode well for a flick's quality.
Now Fox has released a second poster for the film. It isn't gruesome, but it doesn't completely dispel the bad taste left by the teaser trailer. The poster shows a spacesuited chimpanzee, holding a couple of Atari joysticks, excitedly looking out into the Great Beyond. Some blue-ish planet (Earth?) is in the background, along with a distant space shuttle. It's not great, it's not hideous, it's just . . . there.
According to the movie's official website, Space Chimps is "a comedy adventure about two N.A.S.A. chimps that are sent to a galaxy far, far away." (Writer's note: Gee, where have we heard that phrase before? See farther down the article for the answer.)
"One chimp has 'The Right Stuff,' and the other, a good natured goofball, has 'The Wrong Stuff.' The two chimps find themselves on a strange, uncharted planet, where they embark on a fantastical journey to save its inhabitants from a tyrannical leader."
Andy Samberg (Hot Rod) voices Ham III, aka the goofball chimpanzee. Stanley Tucci voices the role of a self-serving senator while Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber) portrays the aforementioned tyrant. Kristin Chenoweth, Patrick Warburton, Cheryl Hines, Kenan Thompson, Zack Shada and Omid Abtahi also voice roles in this flick.
You can check out the Space Chimps poster by clicking here. Chris P. Bacon (ouch!) composed the music for this flick, along with The Blue Man Group. Kirk DiMicco (Racing Stripes) is directing the movie. Space Chimps is scheduled for a July 18th release.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Poster
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the 90-minute pilot for the new animated series from Lucasfilm Animation and Warner Bros., is getting a limited theatrical release this August.
Certainly the six movie saga about events in "the galaxy far, far away" has made billions for creator George Lucas, even though the last three movies were savaged by critics and many fanboys complained that "George Lucas raped my childhood!"
Right now, the big question is whether or not those same fanboys will come flocking back to check out the further adventures of Anakin, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda et al, even after the aforementioned assault on their favourite childhood memories.
The new poster features the heroes of the last three Star Wars movies: Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, his overly-ambitious apprentice Anakin Skywalker and diminutive Jedi Master Yoda are joined by the latest character to hit the Star Wars universe, padawan apprentice Asohka. They're all looking buffed and ready to rumble; not sure who they're going up against but rest assured there'll be plenty of renegade Sith and scary robot monsters to tangle with.
Not sure why Yoda looks like a constipated armadillo, but George Lucas probably has his reasons. You can see more by clicking here.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars will have its limited theatrical release starting on August 15th.
Fun Fact: Many lines of dialogue in the Star Wars series can be livened up with the judicious insertion of the word 'pants.' Some examples:
"I find your lack of pants disturbing." (Darth Vader, A New Hope, 1977)
"I want my pants back. I'm gonna need it to get out of this slimy mudhole." (Luke Skywalker, The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)
"Senator Amidala, your tragedy on the landing platform, terrible. Seeing you alive brings warm feelings to my pants." (Yoda, Attack of the Clones, 2002)
"You've been in my pants for ten years, tormenting me." (Anakin Skywalker, Attack of the Clones, 2002)
