Thehibikiew Not even bad in a good way
Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
doug_hile Kinda like Beetlejuice meets Monte Python. Rose McGowan and Bridgette Fonda are terrific,,, Frazer is _____ ... Story line is a bit confusing, but, maybe that's just me. Gonna be hard to come up with six more lines of text,, but give me a sec and I will try to get some more thoughts together. Wow,, this is really harder than I thought. Never heard about it or saw it in the theater, or even d, so, maybe it was made to go straight to video. I'm sure a lot of effort and money went into it, but for me it just misses the mark. Ahh -- there --- ten lines. How'z Zat? Holy cow,,, STILL not enough lines. Well,, let's go back to Rose McGowan. She is super hot, and way overdue for a big blockbuster. Loved Planet Terror; cried when she lost her leg, but the prosthesis was more than adequate. Love to see her in another Tarentino film, along with Zoe Bell who is another favorite. That should do it -- everybody happy now? Good!!!
SnoopyStyle Cartoonist Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser) created a popular character Monkeybone which is an inappropriate monkey. He falls into a coma after getting into a car accident. His mind is trapped in a cartoon world of his creation with his annoying alter-ego Monkeybone. His sister Kimmy Miley (Megan Mullally) is itching to pull the plug but relents to give it 3 months. His girlfriend Dr. Julie McElroy (Bridget Fonda) discovers that he was planning to propose. She discovers that Stu is in a nightmare loop and wants to inject a serum to ramp up his nightmare even more to scare him awake. Meanwhile in the dreamworld, Stu needs an Exit to get out and Hypnos tells him to steal a from Death. Monkeybone double cross Stu stealing the and escapes to the real world. Stu wakes up as Monkeybone. Monkeybone is in league with Hypnos to steal Julie's nightmare serum and Stu has to escape to stop them.The live action CGI combination look more cheesy than interesting. It's like a collection from the cartoon reject pile. It doesn't have an appealing style. Worst of all, Monkeybone (John Turturro) has no charm at all. Quite frankly, the real world isn't any better. It's DOA with the cast of weird characters rejected from Beetlejuice. The story is unimportant after that. Brendan Fraser is too bitter and boring as himself and horribly annoying as Monkeybone. Neither is appealing or compelling. It's a movie without charm. There is no chance of this being funny.
TheLittleSongbird I am not saying that Henry Selick's films are bad, I loved Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline and I liked James and the Giant Peach. Monkeybone isn't completely terrible, it's just that it isn't particularly good either. The visuals do look great, as Selick's output often does. The soundtrack is memorable and Kitty is hot. However, the characters are dull and lacking any sort of personality particularly Fraser. The story had a good premise but was overall uninteresting and drags badly towards the end. The script has a lot of unfunny jokes and the dialogue itself epitomises blandness. On paper the cast seemed like a winner, but you know there's something wrong when all of them including Bridget Fonda are bogged down by lame writing and a dull character each. Overall, a disappointing movie and Selick's worst. It is not as bad as a movie of this sort like Cool World, because at least Monkeybone looked great and made sense, Monkeybone's problems were that it was dull in the story and characters and that it was poorly written. 4/10 Bethany Cox
hugh77 I am sorry that so few people seem to get this movie. As for my wife and me, this movie just made us laugh out loud and marvel at its creativity. (Now to make full disclosure, perhaps this is at least in part because we have both degrees in Psychology (in fact, my wife has a PhD in psychology). The comments of jhclues of Salem make me think that he's stuck in his own nightmare and simply fails to see the fabulous insight the writers, cast and crew bring to this, in my opinion, very funny picture.Brendan Fraser, to my mind, is really an amazing and very under appreciated actor who has a remarkable gift for physical acting and comedy. This film abundantly displays his talents but I realize many people don't see them. I certainly respect Mr. Clues of Salem for his recognition of Mr. Fraser's courage and appreciation for the challenges he has encountered as an actor. (I imagine that Brendan Fraser has endured far more than his share of pain and hazard in movie making.) But as for Monkeybone, I believe this movie is easily the equal of some of the best work of the great Tim Burton. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Mr. Burton himself, didn't cherish this little sleeper.I certainly recognize that this picture may not be for everybody, but it definitely is a very funny one for some and I could not let the negative views of some reviewers be the only word on the subject for the readers of IMDb. Give it a try and I suspect that, in the words of Adrian Monk, "You'll thank me later."
