Project X | | Cast : | Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt | | Director : | Jonathan Kaplan | | Studio : | Anchor Bay Entertain | | Format : | Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 17, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | February 22, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 28, 2005 | | Summary | Good Film - Great Memories | Content
 | One day my mother came home with a film she showed her kids in school that day. I was either 4 or 5 years old. The film was "Project X", a heart warming, no so far fetched idea, melodrama starring Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt not to mention the extremely cute and hairy chimps.
The film is about an air force pilot who is transfred to an "Experimental Pilot Preformance Project" conducted by a strict doctor. From there he meets Virgil, an extremely smart and loving chimp who ended up there by mistake. He falls for the chimp like anyone else would and tries to save him with the help of the researcher who taught and cared for Virgil in the begining.
I found this film by mistake and quickly bought it. It's only special feature is the theatrical trailer and TV Spots but the film itself is well worth the ten bucks. The film has some very emotional scenes and some harrowing. Some of the scenes were honestly hard to watch. Being an animal lover won't one can only imagine how bad these kinds of experiments got. However, like all family films, this one has a great and happy ending.
This is simply a great movie that kids will love as well as adults. I'm 21 and I just love it! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 13, 2005 | | Summary | A bit slow, but OK for fans of the actors | Content
| We first meet the chimpanzee Virgil when he's a carefree youngster living in the wilds of Africa. Before you can say "monkey's uncle" Virgil (played by Willie) is captured and put into an American university animal behavior program, where he meets a kind and gentle psychologist named Teri (Helen Hunt), who gives him a toy alligator and teaches him sign language. Sadly, the program's funding is cut, and poor Virgil goes to the air force lab to take part in a project so shady it's known only as "X". The sorry, caged critter soon meets disgraced Air Force pilot, Jimmy (Matthew Broderick), who's been demoted and forced into the drudgery of teaching chimps to work flight simulators. But the flight simulators are not as innocent as they appear.
The movie bills itself as a thriller, but it is actually pretty slow and there's no mystery or suspense to it. Still, Hunt and Broderick do a good job.
Staci Layne Wilson
Author of Staci's Guide to Animal Movies
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| Rating | | | Date | November 29, 2004 | | Summary | project x | Content
| like to see project x on dvd for people who have hdtv and dvr hd
box project x will be on channel INHD1-2 will be hd the picture
is really good be on think dec 5-or6 so dont miss it. saw it when
it was on before hope the dvd can be this good
bob |
| Rating | | | Date | September 11, 2004 | | Summary | Great VHS but........... | Content
| Hey this is a classic video but, when will they release the DVD? Did you know they have the DVD in Hong Kong, but not here? So, you can only get it on DVD with Chinese subtitles. Anyhow, let's hope the full english version is released soon. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 11, 2001 | | Summary | This is my favorite movie | Content
| Chimps are featured, but only to keep us from defensively noticing that the movie is really talking about our deepest experience as humans-- the transition from mute wonderment, through learning and loss, into competence and self-reliance. The story seems to meander as Matthew Broderick replaces Helen Hunt as the main human character, but by the end you can tell that the script was written with the greatest of care and skill. |
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