Stream it now Monkeybone 2001

 

This is a very clever film. It shows the triumph of love over the forces of darkness. The whole film is like a dream, even the parts that take place in reality. This is part of the message. One message is that love and sex need to be blended in a relationship otherwise it dies. There is a lot of esoteric symbolism and this is a film that graphically displays the symbolism of The Mystery Schools. It takes a funny and big swipe at commercialism and organ donation.

This film would only appeal to people that are right brained rather than left brained, which is a minority. It is really a deep experience more than a thoughtful story.

If it made you feel a bit weird and uncomfortable then it worked.

I like how the movie looks but there are parts that are way too far for all ages. Sorry Monkeybone, maybe nexttime make it not so innapropriate.

This movie was just...how do I say it, strange. It gives me a weird/creepy feeling everytime I think about it. If its any consultation I don't think a concept like this has every been made into a movie, which makes it original..yes very original.

Only one word for this movie, "crap"!

The team that created the Nightmare Before Christmas made this rubbish? My god, although in all honesty, MonkeyBone isn't completely without redeemable qualities. The stop motion is great and there were some scenes that I wasn't bored at, but the majority of the film isn't very interesting, and that's saying a lot when you're talking about a talking stop motion monkey as one of the main characters. The character I thought was annoying, the story sucked and fairly predictable, and the whole film in general wasn't very good. I've said before that I'm not a Brendan Fraser fan, although I do like him in the Mummy and the Mummy Returns, and this film reminds me why: he's genuinely not that great an actor and doesn't have any real charm to him, plus it doesn't help when he's playing a really uninteresting character to begin with. The biggest weakness for me was the humour, the adult humour seemed highly forced and it wasn't funny.

When Henry Selick created a Nightmare before Christmas it was the start of a new era in stop motion animation. while Selick has always stayed in the world of stop motion animation.He has given us a great and wonderful time with that, James and the giant peach was phenomenal and now in 2001 he created a film that blends perfectly live action with the stop motion animation of his design. And this film so happens to be called, Monkeybone.




Monkeybone is smart, charming, unrelentingly funny and visually breathtaking it's a fantasy adventure with such high class and such great comedic timing that it just leaps out at you and sucks you deep, deep into the world of Henry Selick and his wild, dark and zany creatures. What I loved about this film is how Fraser's character started out meek and dull and slowly but surly turned into the hero and real man you know he is on the inside. It's a great face the music type of story and a great fantasy adventure that is just too good and just too eye catching to resist.




Brendan Fraser gives one of his best comedic performances here as comic strip scribe and creator of Monkeybone Stu Miley. Fraser's performance is key to the film and it sometimes calls for him to go above and beyond the call of duty for his role. But never the less Fraser pulls it off nicely and helps make this comedic adventure worth watching. Bridget Fonda is alright as the doting and caring girlfriend Julie, while not as strong as Fraser and not as serious as she could have been Fonda does alright with her part and is not a thorn in this films side. John Turturro is fantastically funny and witty as the popular but treacherous comic strip character, Monkeybone. Turturro breaks out all his comedic skills and brings some seriously huge laughs and style to this film as the voice of the mischievous little monkey. But all in all the cast holds up great and brings some serious charm laughs to an otherwise unique and original picture.




Monkeybone is cool as it is slick and while not as popular as it should be or as praised but Henry Selick's Monkeybone is an original and visually striking motion picture that I know if your forgiving and open up to this world Monkeybone will not disappoint. All in all Monkeybone is one wild and zany trip you really want to take.

Monkeybone was creative, stylish, smart and witty. It was a great romantic/fantasy comedy adventure that really leap out at you and sucked you into the amazing world and mind of genius animator and director Henry Selick. All in all Monkeybone was a fantastic adventure and a wild trip that is sure to please the kid and adventurer in you.

* (out of four)

Dreadful vehicle with Brendan Fraser as a cartoonist who has an accident and goes into a coma on the day he was about to propose marraige. While in the coma he goes into his cartoon world.

The film aspires to be similiar to "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", but the talent just doesn't live up to it.

Watchable but not good.

Monkeybone was a very unique movie, that depends too strongly on its bizzare visuals to impress the audience and save the movie. First, the whole cast was terrible. Brendan Fraser has never done it for me and justified that in this film. Chris Kattan was also annoying and them together was just sad. The movie is all about its crazy visuals and animation going together with regular life. The creatures were decent and interesting, but that was all that was good about this movie. Their were way too many random scenarios and events that shaped the outcome of the movie. The plot was horrific and the two worlds did not make any sense. Many things did not make sense and were never made clear at the end. Many holes were left in the plot and the movie did not successfuly wrap up and fill you in on the rest of the movie. Overall, Monkeybone was a very dissapointing movie that had no set plot, a bad script, a horrendous cast, and bizzare visuals that were good, but were not even close to saving Monkeybone.