Buddy (1997)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Think about it, getting real chimps and a gorilla to wear clothes and to act on cue! Perhaps some was fixed up later but seeing real animals acting in a movie is amazing!!! I didn't see the end, sounds sad, Like that the relative of the real animal owner posted a review!

Get your movie off me you damned dirty ape! Sorry to see the chimps exploited in the movie and I wonder where those chimps are now. That being said, the movie was sappy and disappointing. The costuming was great but the movie over all just feels meandering and pointless. There is almost a point where Russo's character realizes that she's abused this animal by having it live like a human but then she misses the realization in favor of the belief that she's somehow still in control of Buddy the gorilla. Would have made a decent Fatal Attractions episode but not a good full length feature film. Go see Chimpanzee instead.

Oh my god, this film felt like 40 minutes long and i found it deeply emotional T-T, i know Rene Russo isn't the only actress that cares about some silly 300lb ape but COME ON!!! this film is REALLY childish and it's emotional scenes deferred very very badly against many films released in 1997, including Hercules & Titanic. OK, might right a spoiler here; Buddy starts of as some 6inch Gorilla cub, He gains weight once a year, after a massacre in a World Fair he becomes hotheaded and nearly tries to kill Rene Russo after a kitchen accident, Later, Buddy was so angry he destroyed most of the mansion and has been sent to a zoo ever since. The true story is the Oldest Known Gorilla died at the age of 54, so yeah, it's that non-fictional kids...

Does anyone remember the name of a movie made around this same time which starred the sign language gorilla and young teenage boy who kidnaps him from the lab his mother is working at and the adventure ensues? Thank you for your help!!!! I would like to try and find this movie on DVD if it exists. It was kind-of a cute comedy-family movie as I remember and the teenage boy drives him I think to Canada after dressing him up in a trench coat and hat and stealing him in a van and then taking him to a min-mart type place for food. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I could really use your help as the name escapes me now. I do remember renting it on VHS though around 1994-1997. Somewhere around that time frame. I think it was better than Buddy as a movie.