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Carnival Magic

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A jealous lion-tamer kidnaps a magician's (Don Stewart) talking chimpanzee and hands the animal over for scientific experiments.

Critics Reviews

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Brian Orndorf BrianOrndorf.com 02/14/2011
B-
I'm not suggesting Carnival Magic is a good film, but I will admit to delighting in its peculiar behavior and bootleg turns of plot. Did I mention the talking chimp? Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 11/02/2010
B-
Mildly interesting low-rent melodrama. Go to Full Review
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09/07/2020 how did this get missed by the Oscars See more 11/18/2019 I don't see an option for 0 stars. I subjected myself to this movie through the magic of MST3K, and even the verbal antics of Jonah, Crow, and Tom Servo couldn't save this train-wreck of a film. See more 03/09/2018 Wow...just.......wow. See more 07/23/2017 Chances are most of you discovered this on the new "Mystery Science Theater 3000." One big failure is that the talking chimpanzee seems to only mumble. & for a presumably family-friendly movie about a talking animal there's one or two violent scenes. See more 06/16/2017 Not very magical. Pretty bad voice dubbing. See more 06/10/2017 Was on MST3k The Return. Holds up on its own. Just kidding. It's cheap campy junk. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A jealous lion-tamer kidnaps a magician's (Don Stewart) talking chimpanzee and hands the animal over for scientific experiments.
Director
Al Adamson
Producer
Elvin Feltner
Screenwriter
Mark Weston, Bob Levine
Rating
G
Genre
Kids & Family, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 13, 2016
Runtime
1h 40m