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Most Extreme Primate

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How it feels

A smart chimpanzee named Jack teams up with two young snowboarders to compete in a championship race. They also have to deal with a pair of criminals who are causing trouble.

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What happens

MXP: Most Xtreme Primate is a 2003 Canadian sports comedy film directed and co-produced by Robert Vince, and a sequel to MVP: Most Valuable Primate (2000) and MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate (2001). MXP: Most Xtreme Primate follows Jack, an athletic chimpanzee who meets sibling snowboarders Pete (played by Devin Douglas Drewitz) and Jay (Trevor Wright); together they outwit a pair of criminals while attempting to win a snowboard cross championship. MXP: Most Xtreme Primate had its world premiere at the Whistler Film Festival in Whistler, British Columbia, in December 2003. Unlike its predecessors, the film did not see a theatrical release, instead being released direct-to-video through Buena Vista Home Entertainment on January 20, 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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