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Monkeybone
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Brendan Fraser, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris
Kattan,
Bridget Fonda |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
20th
Century Fox |
| Web Site: |
www.bitemymonkey.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
The youngins in my
theater didn't seem to like it. |
| Date Movie: |
The dudettes
didn't seem to like it either. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
I wish Bridget had
gotten naked. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Some fighting. |
| Action: |
Nah. |
| Laughs: |
Not really. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
None. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
None. |
| Directed By: |
Henry Selick |
| Produced By: |
Michael Barnathan,
Mark Radcliffe |
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Monkeybone
A Movie Review |
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All of the signs were there to get my refund and run.
First the pre-movie commercials start and there is no audio, then
the audio kicks in but the trailers are out of focus, and then the
movie starts with no sound. I’m in a theater full of people, I’m
a little high up in the stadium seating, but no one moves. Finally I’m
sick of seeing the plot lines develop with no audio so I walk down
the stairs, out the door, find a snot-nosed kid, and tell him that
there is no sound in theater 2. Does he believe me? No. He follows
me back into the theater, sees that there is no sound, and says
"Well that isn’t good?" No shit, go get it fixed!
A few too many minutes later they finally stop the film and try
to fix things. Management hands out some coupons for a free small
popcorn, and I’m thinking of bailing on "Monkeybone" and
get my money back or at least a movie voucher. But no, I stick it
out, and about ten minutes later the film roles from where it left
off and an hour and a half later I wish I had gone to get my money
back.
"Monkeybone" gives us Brendan Fraser as Stu. He has his
woman, Julie (Bridget Fonda), wants to marry her, and has his
cartoon Monkeybone. He doesn’t like being in the spotlight when
Monkeybone takes off, nor does he want his character mass-marketed.
In a weird twist Stu ends up in a coma and his mind goes to
"Downtown" where dream characters come to life. But his
dream characters have their own ideas and trick Stu into getting an
"Exit Ticket" back to his body, only his cartoon
character, Monkeybone, uses the ticket. Stu is left in
"Downtown" jail, Monkeybone is working on banging Julie,
and a sinister plot to get the world to dream bad dreams takes
shape. And you know what, that’s as much as I want to get into
this movie.
Fraser does his best to play a multitude of characters, and I
still have a thing for Bridget Fonda, but "Monkeybone"
just fails. It’s rated PG-13 but seems to want to be rated R (I
wish it were) so it can’t take the jokes where they need to go yet
tries to remain cute for the kids. Monkeybone isn’t a kids
character, although he looks like he should be, and the story is so
bizarre that the cool effects of "Downtown" are wasted. I’m
done wasting my time on this movie and will just give it 1 star out
of 5. I should have taken the refund and ran.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
