MVP 2: Most Vertical Primate

The hockey-playing chimp from 2000’s “MVP: Most Valuable Primate” swings back into action, trading his skates for a skateboard. When the chimpanzee is wrongfully ousted from his hockey team, he finds a friend in a shy skateboarder (Scott Goodman), and the two go bananas on the amateur skateboarding circuit. Richard Karn, Bob Burnquist., Home Improvement’s Richard Karn lends his talents to this family-oriented animal-sports adventure from the producers of another animal-sports picture, Air Bud. MVP II: Most Vertical Primate picks up the story line of the first film in the series, MVP: Most Valuable Primate, but transfers its star monkey from the suburbs to the city, and switches his sport of choice from hockey to skateboarding. MVP II opens with the lovable Jack being ousted from his hockey team, the Seattle Simians, and having to hit the road after being falsely accused of league misconduct. Jack ends up in the city, where he’s befriended by Ben (screen newcomer Scott Goodman), a homeless skateboarder, and Ollie (Karn), a skate shop owner. Jack proves to be as adept at mastering the half-pipe as he does at delivering a slap shot, and before long, he and Ben are crashing amateur skateboarder competitions all over the country., Comedy sequel about an ice hockey-playing chimp who goes on the run when he is framed for professional misconduct, but soon becomes a champion skateboarder with the help of some new-found friends., Hockey-playing chimp Jack is framed by rivals and goes on the run. But he quickly becomes the alpha male of the skateboarding league instead.