Monkeybone Movie Review 2001

Weird comedy about comatose cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser), who must escape from his own comic fantasy world in order to return to consciousness after an accident. Monkeybone, a chimp embodiment of a teenager's libido from his "Show Me the Monkey" animated pilot is the focus of the rest of the film as he escapes from the underworld and "steals" Stu's body to romance his awaiting girlfriend (Fonda). Kattan is funny as the organ donor and Turturro, who puts his considerable talent to voicing a monkey, is successful, but one-note libidinous simian humor makes flimsy material for a film. Based on the graphic novel "Dark Town" by Kaja Blackley.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 92 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Live Action/Animation Combos, Monkeyshines, Shrinks, Adapted from Comics, Fantasy, Death & the Afterlife, Hallucinations/Illusions, Coma

Screenplay

Sam Hamm

Cast

Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan, Dave Foley, Giancarlo Esposito, Rose McGowan, Megan Mullally, Lisa Zane

Cinematography

Andrew Dunn

Director

Henry Selick

Music

Anne Dudley

Other

John Turturro, Geoffrey Patterson, Dawn Soler, Mark Warner, Jon Poll, Nicholas C. Smith, John Chichester, Bruce Robert Hill, Beatrix Aruna Pasztor, Bill Boes

Producer

Michael Barnathan, Mark Radcliffe, 1492 Films, 20th Century-Fox