The design is often brilliant, although the film is nowhere near as tasteless or funny as it ought to be.
Monkeybone (2001)
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan, Dave Foley, Whoopi Goldberg
Screenwriter: Sam Hamm
Producer: Mark Radce, Michael Barnathan
Composer: Anne Dudley
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 5, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case - Sensormatic
- Letterboxed Anamorphic - 1.85
Audio:
- DTS Surround 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Surround - English, French
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Ending
- Audio Commentary - Henry Selick - Director
- Behind-the-Scenes - Look at Live-Action/ Animation Process
- Deleted Scenes - (10)
- Featurette
- Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailers
- 2. TV Spots
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
Text/ Photo Galleries:
- Galleries - Blue Screen Gallery
- Stills/Photos
Reviews
You can almost see money dripping off the walls of the sets and cybersets in this special-effects extravaganza.
The movie doesn't seem to have a purpose other than to fill space.
An embarrassment for Brendan Fraser. Consider this surreal comedy attempt a career hurdle that Fraser has since cleared.
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.
If you're interested in craziness, loony looking critters and other people's nightmares, there are worse ways to spend 90 minutes.
Monkeybone's brief running time suggests the studio attempted to resuscitate its humor in the editing room. The operation was not a success.
Nothing prepared me for the painful experience of watching 'Monkeybone.'
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.
So dreadfully unfunny and unbearably shrill that watching it makes you feel like you’ve been trapped in Hell for eternity.
An unfunny movie with small flashes of inspiration that really just turns into a big mess.
Except for the inventive and eye-catching decor, "Monkeybone" is as two-dimensional as a line drawing.
It's pretty funny. It's absurdist funny, not so much situational as just weird and cool and "yikes!" and surreal.
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