Average Rating: 3.8/10
Reviews Counted: 112
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 90
Though original and full of bizarre visuals, Monkeybone is too shapeless a movie, with unengaging characters and random situations that fail to build up laughs.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 24
Though original and full of bizarre visuals, Monkeybone is too shapeless a movie, with unengaging characters and random situations that fail to build up laughs.
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This feverishly energetic comedy combines stop-motion animation and live action from director Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Miley, a cartoonist who created a randy monkey character called Monkeybone that has taken off in popularity, making him a celebrity. Stu's set to launch a TV series based on Monkeybone and marry his beautiful fiancée Julie (Bridget Fonda) when he's injured in a freak accident
Feb 23, 2001 Wide
Jul 10, 2001
$4.9M
20th Century Fox
All Critics (113) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (93) | DVD (21)
You can almost see money dripping off the walls of the sets and cybersets in this special-effects extravaganza.
Why do I still have a soft spot for this flick? Because there are glimmers of intelligence in the mess, because it must have driven the marketing department crazy, and because it fails so differently than all those run-of-the-mill failures.
There's unwieldy mess -- but there's also unruly brilliance to this dark and funny story.
One of those newfangled production design monstrosities that grabs you by the collar in the first ten minutes, then shakes you around like a rag doll until you're ready to drop.
The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.
The guy can't control his 'monkey,' get it? Heh-heh. Yep, that's the whole concept. Heh. Pretty twisted, eh? Heh ... har ... um ... zzzzzz.
Starts out bad and gets progressively worse.
Fun fun fun, but not necessarily for all the family.
Primed to be dark, twisted, and playful -- all exhibited traits of the works of the director, animator Henry Selick -- it is instead juvenile, amateurish, and sloppy.
A bundle of chaotic energy signifying nothing.
The film Monkeybone is a raucous mess. Director Henry Selick mixes animation and live action to the noisy, clumsy detriment of both.
...an outrageously funny demonstration of how our interior angst can be put into the service of art.
This tale about alter ego and greed generates more morbid and sexual content than a real sense of ghoulish fun or panic.
A crass and frantic comedy-fantasy pitched alternately, I think, at ten-year-olds or stoned college students.
The design is often brilliant, although the film is nowhere near as tasteless or funny as it ought to be.
The movie doesn't seem to have a purpose other than to fill space.
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An embarrassment for Brendan Fraser. Consider this surreal comedy attempt a career hurdle that Fraser has since cleared.
Don't waste your time with this monkey business.
Monkeybone is kind of like a Tim Burton movie - except it wasn't directed by Tim Burton.
There's a special place in my heart for movies that create new worlds for us to inhabit.
A largely frustrating 90-minute experience.
Based on the comic 'Dark Town' but slightly twisted somewhat resulting in this film from Selick which by no means is a bad thing as the film is great fun. When I first saw this it was a straight to 'video' release but I was enticed by the unusual title and colourful film cover, but I must admit after seeing it I
November 7, 2011Super Reviewer
This was an enjoyable ride. It was just funny how the main act was holding his head on with anything he could find. I laughed every time he came up with something new and original to hold it up.
March 27, 2010Super Reviewer
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