Monkeybone (2001)

I chuckled once at the end at a Whoppi line...that's it!

A friend of mine worked on the digital painting of MONKEYBONE so she asked me to watch it.Well?......her work was good!

Brendan Fraser is a good looking guy, but a comedian he ain't! This film was soooooo not funny.There were two things I liked: (1) there is a great roller coaster that takes you to the land of death, and (2) Chris Kattan is the true "physical" comedian of this travesty, but has only 10 minutes of screen time towards the conclusion.Bridget Fonda? Totally forgetful role.Megan Mullaly is still "Karen" on WILL AND GRACE.Fraser? He was so good in the serious Gods and Monsters (Special Edition).Why does he do this kind of work?

Whoopi Goldberg plays "Death".She made me laugh once at the end when she says "I'll go after the guys at SOUTH PARK.I heard they want to meet me".

That's it! PASS January 21, 2008

Salvor Dail threw up and Andy Warhol filmed it

It has been a couple years since I've seen this, and I can still honestly say that it's like watching a Andy Warhol movie of Salvor Dail puking. A kind of swirly colorful mess, with Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda stuck in the ooze of ick, and can't escape it's yuck of a screenplay...On a positive note, Jim Carrey isn't in it. Other then that, nothing can redeem Henry Selick, Kaja Blackley, and Sam Hamm for this putrid monstrosity, and I mean that from the bottm of my heart. March 2, 2007

Hits 'n' Misses

I only hired this movie coz Bridget Fonda(Dream woman) was in it and tht it had a good concept. I was not expecting Gone with the Wind. I just felt like watching a comedy. This seemed to promise some laughs.The movie started out pretty good with the cartoon promo but when he is in a coma and got sent to Down Town it got a bit weird. I didn't know whether it was a dream or hell at first. There are a lot of holes in the script. Much of the characters were 2 dimentional, even Brendon Frasier's character was. The running time went by fast refusing to give the audience more information.
The character Monkeybone was very creative but very cliche. Think Roger Rabbit. John Turturros funny voice makes him quite likable but at the same time anoying. If the creators were trying to make a timeless character they failed. Frasier as Monkeybone was actually quite convincing, maybe because I don't have much faith in him when it comes to comedy. Bridget Fonda's character was kinda wasted which makes me sad. Shes been doing roles like that for ages. The bedroom scene, I noticed Bridget acting bad. She didn't seem to think something was wrong with her hubby who seems to be jumping around on the bed dancing to 'Foxy Lady'. She could have at least put in some confused/shocking expressions. Although I did like it when she was getting undressed behind closed curtains. In this movie she felt like eye-canding to me which I found disappointing. She can do better than that. Frasier & Fonda seemed to have fin chemisry. Chris Kattan was very good and funny. He also convinced me he was Fraiser. Maybe he should have been lead. Unfortunitly he only lasted the final 20 mins of the movie.
The movie does suceed in senseless laughter but only in some parts and the plot was good enough to keep my attention. The movie was 'what you see is what you get' and I wasn't disappointed. It wasn't great but it was descent and thats enough. I recommend this movie to anyone who just feels like getting a cheap laugh. December 11, 2006

as great as 'strangelove' . . . and funnier

O.K. Duffers! Put up your dukes. Without question the most tasteless, reckless, perjoratively brilliant film ever made. Attacks all sacred cows of Amazon reviewers such as the little girl from Kansas who thinks that Micheal Moore ought to be tried for treason, "cause I just can't stand him". A few of the sacred cows?: the medical establishment, modern science, animation, family films - and family values, PG-13 type movies, love making, love itself, "steamy" sex scenes performed with clothes on, Christian eschatology, religion, Divine Command Theory, human relationships, so-called purpose, will, the meaning of life, life/death, etc. The casting of Whoopi Goldberg as God is simply the perfection of the genre; the acting is utterly without pretention or ham, magnificent up and down the line; and the direction, set design, and editing of one zany scene after another of daunting intricacy should have been awarded Oscars. And they might have, had not the film (which apparently drove the producers into virtual or actual bankrupcy - sort of the 'Heaven's Gate' of comedies), insulted essentially over 95% of any audience who ever saw it in a theatre, and probably most of those who saw it somewhere else. I, however, loved it - the trite "picture truly worth a thousand words" never rung more true - saying in both pictures and words most everything I've ever wanted to say to most everyone I've met over the past thirty years - but never had the time, will, or wit to quite as efficiently lay it on the line.
August 22, 2006

one of the worst films of the last 20 years..this is no joke

the plot is very original and the special effects are cool but the jokes all fail...badly..with jerking off jokes like "excuse me i have to go choke my monkey" this is a film that falls short in laughs and i mean that July 22, 2006

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