Monkeybone (2001) (Special Edition; Widescreen; Sensormatic)
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i love megan
this show is very funny. i love it mainly because it has megan mullally in it. she is the coolest prettiest sexiet hottest woman in this world and i love her to death. i ahve got to be her biggest fan.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoThis mvoie SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I rented it and i thought it would be good but after watching it i said to myself this movie was retarded. They monkey was gay and brandon frasier could not act like a monkey. So if any body liked this crap, then they need charter.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoHilarious Home Viewing
Monkey Bone was released to the theaters in February, so it may be forgotten when awards time rolls around. Still, I imagine it will win one or two "Worst-of" somethings. Some clanky lines, an ironed-on Hollywood love story, and Brendan Frasier's handsome ham-hock of a face -- they won't be able to resist.
But if you are anything at all like me -- if you think that sometime it's OK to talk in movies (at home I mean!) -- then you pretty much need to see this film. I missed this in the theaters, which was very easy to do since there was close to zero buzz. There was an article in Salon.com a while back
detailing why Monkey Bone suffered from the worst marketing blunders in recent memory. Who knows. In any case I got my hands on the video and settled into my armchair to watch, and had a very fine couple of hours. I was entertained start to finish, laughed throughout the film, and the Newman's Own micropop I made for the 2nd half was, in all seriousness, made extra salty from tears of laughter.
The plot has Stu Miley (Frasier) newly famous from his Monkey Bone cartoon show. He tried to resist the evils of corporate merchandising and ends up in a coma (naturally). The intro is quietly amusing, but the film gets cooking
once he descends into the nightmare world of death and near-death. This dreamscape is very much in the mold of Tim Burton, and there is always something (or 8 things) amazing to look at. Monkey Bone's director, Henry Selick, also created "Nightmare Before Christmas" (with Burton) and "James and the Giant Peach". If you've seen either of those films, that should be all I need to say about the movie's visual splendor. I will not catalog the spectacular oddities of this purgatory "Downtown" and risk spoiling the fun. Suffice to say, it's totally delightful.
Monkey Bone has a much raunchier bent than Selick's other films; even less so than "Nightmare..." this is not a film for kids. Stu comes face to face with his creation, Monkey Bone, who ends up stealing his body and returning to the waking world to embarrass people and have sex with Stu's fiancée and anyone else in sight, while Stu tries to work the system in Downtown to get
back to the real world to stop Monkey Bone's rampage. The comic pinnacle of the film comes when Stu returns to the living world in the form of a gymnast's mangled but still agile corpse (the very, very funny Chris Kattan
from SNL's 14th resurgence). He chases the possessed Stu around town while spilling his organs one by one and dodging greedy organ-harvesting doctors chasing him in a shiny Escalade. It's about ten minutes of pants-pissing insanity. Truly excellent stuff.
You won't care much about Monkey Bone's plot, but you won't care that you won't care. This movie is non-stop, quite funny, and absolutely inspired visually. Two big-toes up from this Laz-y-Boy critic.Was this review helpful? Yes - NoAwesome movie.
This is a really funny movie, yet it seemed a little short. I guess time flies when you're having fun, but it still would have been a 5-star if it were longer.
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