Space Chimps to Release on Blu-ray in November

The primates over at 20th Century Fox who produced Shrek announced today that their latest animated film, Space Chimps, will release on November 25 on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. Space Chimps follows Ham III, the grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, who is recruited to join two NASA chimps on an important mission to retrieve a wayward craft. However, things get a little hairy when they find out that they were sent on a space ship with no plans to return to Earth. Ham III must then get them home while saving the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from their evil dictator.

The Space Chimps Blu-ray Disc will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4) compression on a single-layer 25 GB disc. Presented in widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio), the movie will have English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio and Spanish/French 5.1 Dolby Digital audio with English and Spanish subtitles.

The full bonus feature list is below. As you’ll see, it includes one BD-exclusive feature.

• Trivia Blast Off (BD-exclusive): A trivia track featuring on-screen facts about outer space, space travel and the Space Program.
• Fox Movie Channel Presents Casting Session featurette
• Still Gallery
• TV Spots

Click here to pre-order Space Chimps on Blu-ray from Amazon.com.