MVP: Most Valuable Primate

Summary: When Jack, a sign-language-speaking chimp, makes a break for freedom, his talent for ice skating soon turns him into the local hockey team's secret weapon. But the lab officials are closing in.

Release Date: October 20, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Family, Sport

Director: Robert Vince

Writers: Anne Vince

, Robert Vince

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Keystone Family Pictures, Film Incentive B.C., Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)

Distributor: Disney Channel, Warner Home Video

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,500,000

Domestic: $ 1,248,746

Box office:

Budget:$4.5MDomestic:$1.2MWorldwide:$1.2M

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40%40%

The Metacritic audience rated this -20% lower than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

43/100

Metacritic User:

23/100

22%6%

22% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

6% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White94.12%Asian5.88%

4.00

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Language1/5
Violence1/5
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Race	White	Asian	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	8	6	14		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Bettaface	2		2		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.betafaceapi.com/demo_old.html
Forebears		1	1
Surname	1		1		A third party free program that uses US Census data to create an algorithm that analyzes surnames and guesses what ethnicity the person is. Obviously there are issues with this data set such as African Americans who have the last names of their ancestors' slave owner. However, when no other data set is available, this can give a rough estimate and expand the data pool for the less important cast members with no IMDb or TMDb image. Please consider downloading their source code via GitHub to verify the accuracy of our data set, and to peer review our conclusions. Source: https://pypi.org/project/ethnicolr/
Total	11	7	18
Cast Percentages	61.11%	38.89%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":61.11,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":38.89,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (2010) Percentage	63.7%	5.61%		{"name":"U.S. Population (2010)","series":[{"name":"White","y":63.7,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0.55,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":5.61,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":12.6,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0.92,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.9,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":16.3,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":4.56,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":1.71,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (2010) Representation	-2.59	+33.28		{"name":"U.S. Population (2010)","series":[["White",63.7],["Asian",5.61]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":61.11,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":38.89,"color":"#90ee7e"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Percentage	77.06%	4.93%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2010)","series":[{"name":"White","y":9431400000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":603500000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":961200000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":82500000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1018000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":143100000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2010) Representation	-15.95	+33.96		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2010)","series":[["White",77.06],["Asian",4.93]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":61.11,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":38.89,"color":"#90ee7e"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	71.15%	6.95%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":11951648546571,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":1167575046537,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":1591592669815,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":121160969070,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":1374819228748,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":591945348131,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	-10.04	+31.94		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",71.15],["Asian",6.95]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":61.11,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":38.89,"color":"#90ee7e"}]}
World population (2007) Percentage	15.53%	33.13%		{"name":"World population (2007) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":12338721324,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":38122017455,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":9214330072,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":103255750927,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":82249533677,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":220324384465,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":53380310758,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":143813838260,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":2242754357,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (2007) Representation	+45.58	+5.76		{"name":"World population (2007) ","series":[["White",15.53],["Asian",33.13]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":61.11,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":38.89,"color":"#90ee7e"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%	29.46%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+24.63	+9.43		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48],["Asian",29.46]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":61.11,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Asian","y":38.89,"color":"#90ee7e"}]}
Notes		The US Census considers Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Indian, and Bangladeshi as Asians. At ZR we group Pakistanis with the Arab world. And we group Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi with India because 1.) they are all genetically similar as "South Asians and 2.) there are only a handful of actors from those regions in our database. However, you are viewing the "Asian Alone" category from the US Census when comparing it with Domestic representation. Also note that the 2000 and 2010 estimates include MultiRacial Asians not just "Asian Alone" estimates, and in some categories they include Native Hawaiians as "Asian." So there is a margin of error less than 1% and some inconsistencies with the grouping.

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This film gets a 4/5 family friendly score

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Dove Rating https://dove.org/review/3178-mvp-most-valuable-primate/
Faith 0/5	None
Sex 1/5	Hockey players ogle a girl in a short dress.
Language 1/5	2 expletives
Violence 1/5	Some combat on the ice between hockey teams; a man is knocked out by a hockey puck.
Drugs 0/5	None
Nudity 0/5	None
Other 1/5	A couple of crude remarks; we see a man from the back standing at a urinal.

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