‘Space Chimps’: the ‘Times’ Takes a Courageous Stand

Hidden away in today’s Times arts coverage, deep in the section behind Manohla Dargis’s review of The Dark Knight (“Goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind”) and A.O. Scott’s review of Mamma Mia! (“You can have a perfectly nice time watching this … and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is”), is the best lede we’ve read in the Times in a long time:

Journalism is all about having the courage to write the truth even if it will get you mocked by your relatives and co-workers, so here goes: “Space Chimps” is hilarious.

We still don’t want to see Space Chimps, but we do want to see Neil Genzlinger write more movie reviews!

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