![]() He takes control of the powerful space probe and uses it to harass and enslave the rest of his population. Luna takes a fall from a speeding craft while saving her friends.Īs the villain, Zartog perpetrates the most violent situations. Slapstick pratfalls range from a chimp slipping off a treadmill and bouncing against a wall (repeatedly) to Ham in a rocket pack destroying everything in his path. (Ham and Luna jump from their lunging bites, but no one is actually hurt.) A flying critter shoots sharp spines and one sticks Ham in the seat of his pants. Still, while this group is a bit more curvy than the other blobish aliens, they’re definitely subdued.Ī number of creatures with sharp teeth spring out of the alien planet’s surface or hang like vines from the trees. The other around the size of “the beast.” At the whims of Zartog, a rock band of female aliens are dressed up (or down, in this case) like the girls in Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible video. One involves a quip about a banana in a pocket. (It’s implied that he goes through an intimate examination that we don’t see.)Ī couple of sexually oriented “catchphrases” are reappropriated for more innocent purposes here. The probe immediately goes into, well, probe mode-zooming laser lights in on Zartog’s crotch, picking him up by the feet and putting him on an examination table. ![]() When the probe crash-lands on an alien planet, a curmudgeonly local named Zartog finds it. A human female says of Ham, “He’s so cute.” He responds (in his chimp language) with, “Yeah, I’m a hottie.” And he later calls her the “space lady who’s attracted to me.” Ham is obviously attracted to Luna when he first meets her, and he approaches her with a “hey babe” kind of attitude. Everybody wonders, will the pretty Luna eventually find Ham a-peeling? Does the crew have the right stuff to get the job done in the face of all this monkey business? In other words, if the monkeys see the probe, will they do what’s required? Could this guy be a hero at heart or is he nothing more than a, um, ham? So Ham III is forcibly recruited, joins two primate crewmates (the brainy Luna and brawny Titan) and is launched screaming into the unknown. ![]() And who better to lead the mission than the great one’s grandson. Since no human astronauts are silly enough to rocket blindly into who-knows-where, it’s time to call the chimps back into service. loses a billion-dollar space probe in a mysterious cosmic wormhole and decides that somebody must fetch it. It doesn’t exactly make him a chimp-off-the-old-block, but it’s plenty good for this Ham’s showboat style. This fun-loving goof-off is quite happy working with a circus and entertaining cheering crowds by being blasted out of a cannon. He returned a hero to humans and simians alike.Īll these years later, the great explorer’s grandson, Ham III, likes blasting off, too. Way back when music was only sold on vinyl and a tank of gas went for pocket change, a chimpanzee named Ham donned a pressurized suit, scampered into a rocket capsule and bravely went where no man (or beast) had ever gone before: space. ![]()
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