MVP: Most Valuable Primate

MVP Most Valuable Primate is a 2000 feature film that sparked the MVP franchise. The films title character, Jack, is a chimpanzee.

The movie generated one theaterreleased sequel and one directtovideo sequel. In each film, Jack learns to play a different sport.MVP was the working title of the 1997 film Air Bud, but the subtitle was Most Valuable Pooch, not Most Valuable Primate. Air Bud shares the same producers and they both star Kevin Zegers. Both films feature similar plots about an animal who can play sports, and they each spawned a number of sequels in which the title animal plays a different sport in each. ........

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