You Can Have Your Dark Knight

While most of you will be standing in long ticket lines and sitting squished against a stranger for the other movie that's opening this weekend, my daughter and I will breeze right into the theater, stretch out and enjoy what will prove to be THE movie of '08 - Space Chimps.
Fandango's description:

Three NASA chimps are sent to a galaxy far, far away. Two chimps have 'The Right Stuff,' and the other, a good natured goofball, has 'The Wrong Stuff.' Together all three find themselves on a strange, uncharted planet, where they embark on a fantastical journey to save its inhabitants from a tyrannical leader.

And the top of the movie poster says, "July 18, Go Bananas!"
Sounds good, doesn't it?

I don't know a lot about this movie. Only that I'm fairly sure it's based on a true story. And though this is Kirk de Micco's first go-round as director he has a proven track record as writer on Racing Stripes, Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie and Casper's Scare School. I assume everyone saw the first two. But don't feel silly if you're not familiar with Casper's Scare School. It didn't do nearly the business Hollywood expected. Of it, IMDB says:

Casper has a new assignment: get in touch with his spooky side and start scaring "fleshies" OR ELSE...

You can see right there by the "OR ELSE" being in capital letters that Casper is really going to be in a pickle if he doesn't start scaring fleshies. That's exactly the type of cinematic tension de Micco is capable of delivering. And with any luck (knock, knock on wood) he has delivered again with Space Chimps.