Sorry, this movie sucks

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I can not believe that anyone could say this was a great movie. What they did to Nim was horrible, and they proved absolutely nothing as far as I could see. If they wanted to show you how to ruin an animal's life it would get a 10 out of 10.Once they were done using him they abandon him to bared cages and chores. I'm still not sure what they expected making the movie, other than to confirm humans are the animals, and not the superior race at all.So they made money on a book, on a movie and the only really important cost was only a chimps life, and least we not forget giving him pot and alcohol.Awesome job guys!

This is a movie about a balding professor, played by a certain 'Bern Cohen', who starts a 'science project' to find out whether one can teach a chimpanzee how to communicate in human (sign) language, and if so what the animal would be saying.Based on a true story.He (the professor that is) apparently glued his remaining hair over the top of his skull and set out to separate a chimpanzee-baby from its mother. Meanwhile we are told that it is actually the sixth time this mother gets separated from a new-born baby.The chimpanzee baby is placed in a family with 6 children who must all treat the little animal in the same manner one would treat a human baby. This family is described as bunch of hippies living in a 'loose atmosphere'. Apparently its not to the chimp's liking, and after it bites the mother-hippie one time too many, it gets transferred from one new environment to the next.Meanwhile we learn that the professor has found a junior-researcher called laura, with whom he briefly has a relationship. When the professor ends this relationship, the junior-researcher quits the project. This is very upsetting for our baby-chimp as it was just starting to accept laura as its new mother.Now we see how the chimp is allowed to drink alcohol, and how it is taught to smoke pot and hash. This was the point where I forwarded the movie to the very end, where I was told that chimpanzees are really wonderful animals.From my perspective, was the US not such a completely screwed-up country with a vast majority of screwed up people, I would notify the authorities of this misadventure in the hope to stop this professor maniac and his not-so-hippie clan to ever come up with anything like this again.

I am both saddened and angered by the entire experiment. The Nim's mother gets her baby taken six times! You would think that the reaction of her not wanting to give up her baby would make you think "How would I feel if I had my 2 week old baby taken from me?" and then that Nim learned all those signs and had all that fun, but got too big to handle so you just pass him off and to different people making him think that he is like a human then cast away. I am sad for Nim's mom and Nim for the chance of a happy CHIMP life, the way it should have been because he's a CHIMP. The Professor should be fined and have his accreditations be taken away for the stupidity and the "playing god" like act.I like the Documentary for informing me of this cruel act and how it was done, but hate that the experiment happened.

I saw Project Nim right after seeing Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the similarities are startling. Nim and Caesar are both taken from their mothers at birth, raised in human families until they get to be too aggressive, and then put into primate shelters and medical research facilities. The difference is that Caesar leads an uprising of the apes and poor Nim is left in a cage until he dies.Most of the humans in both films come off as abusive and/or ignorant of what they have done to the chimps. One or two in each film tries to do the right thing but is thwarted by the other humans. As a psychologist, I was personally appalled by the behavior of the psychologists in the film. They should have known better than to remove an infant from its mother and try to raise it within the family of another species. That's insane! Colleagues at the university should have rejected any application for funding of such research. The license of the psychologist in the film should be revoked. He not only traumatized Nim for his own purposes but also hired incompetent and inexperienced assistants to whom he was sexually attracted. It was the 1970's but that is no excuse. I believe that there actually was some interesting research data about the chimp's use of language that the psychologist dismisses. So in my eyes, he fails on an intellectually professional level as well as an ethical one. Both films are sad commentaries on the human race and the chimps seem like the better species. Would be an interesting double bill to have the fantasy feature film and the documentary shown together.