Monkeybone

Hmm, I guess I just needed to process 9/11 to find the joy within this totally bonkers movie. Rose McGowan

Bold idea but something went very wrong during the production.

It has a quality of flawed greatness that will probably earn it a cult following, but for most viewers, a Monkeybone will never be confused for a funny bone.

One of the most stupendous and totally idiotic films I've seen, but somehow it's all the more endearing for it. Beneath some surprisingly imaginative visionry, portrayed by a host of surreal nightmares, and an entertainingly chaotic Brendan Fraser it does have a brainless appeal. This is a shame, because the rest of the film often feels very rough and the feeling that a little more thought could have gone into the plotline to turn such a inherently flawed idea into a more streamlined escapade.

For how much work went into this movie by the animators, it's too bad it sucks so bad. The saving grace is Chris Kataan, holding in his guts with duct tape, running at the end of the movie. So much fun, and the best acting that guy will ever do.

No way near as bad as its reputation suggests. For all its flaws, there is still a vein of great surreal imagery and a black sense of humour, as to be expected from the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. I also admit that while most people will find Brendan Fraser and his mugging annoying, I actually enjoyed it immensely; it takes a lot of skill and courage to spend a lot of the film acting like a randy simian and Fraser is far more talented an actor than most would think.

This is not a film about a character called Monkeybone. This is a film about a guy with multiple personality disorder who, after falling into a coma is awoken with experimental drugs causing the monkeybone personality to assert itself. It is a tragic story but one that clearly demonstrates the need for proper clinical trials of all drugs that are trying to come to market.

What is the grace of Monkeybone? None. Fraser doing his role as always, Fonda here only as decoration and W. Goldberg is very annoying.

Monkeybone is an experience like no other. It has the potential to make you laugh -- and often will -- but it also has the ability to chill you to the bone. It certainly did that for me. I was scared all throughout, thanks in large part to the mixture of puppetry, CGI, and claymation, mixed in with dark humor and sometimes juxtaposed against the real world. It shows Brendan Fraser's versatility and it's something that you'll struggle to get out of your head long after it's done playing.

Nice pics but ultimately forgettable

The premise works, and Selick brings it to life with some awesome production design. A little too zany for its own good at times, but I suppose that fits.

Delightfully original. Some rank, dark humor and the only movie of its kind.

vi no primeiro domingo que almocei na casa do Dedé!!! uhhh, conhecendo os sogros!!!!!!! saímos e alugamos o filme!!!!

Used to find it really weird but fascinating when I was a kid. Seeing it again, my opinion changed. Some of the locations, ideas, and visuals are creepy and interesting, one almost wish for more of it. It's a shame they went so over the top with a part of the juvenile humour. It's mostly the monkey in any form and shape; when the monkey was on, it was anywhere between grating and embarrassing.

Who is this targeted at? Can't be kids, what with the internal organs, sexual innuendo, bone/chain/etcsaw fights and whatnot. Can't be 'young' adults, because monkeys aren't cool. But it can't be for grown ups, either, because it is a terrible movie. Brendan Fraser is intolerable as always, but it does have some cool visuals and a finale that is ridiculous enough to keep it from being a complete turd sandwich.

Wild and brilliant animation, great story, one of the best contemporary surreal films to be marketed towards the mainstream and failed. It's great, if you like wild unhindered cinema, this is a blast.

Wow, Brendan Fraser, what were you thinking? This is just dumb.

It was like Who Framed Roger Rabbit designed for Jim Carrey, spiced with limitless bellow waiste humor. What gave a birth for Monkeybone? Boner for early teenager boy. Lame. There was Rose McGowan as a cat woman but even from that they did not find anything good. Chris Kattan then again was very funny escaping the organ donating. All points for him!

Goofy as hell and really stupid, but it was still worth the rental.

weird movie

If I was in the target audience of ten and under I still wouldn't make sense of it, but I wouldn't be offended but how bad it is.

Bob Odenkirk saved the film.

Frantic and hectic, this movie has some interesting stuff in it, but it's also as sickening as getting lost in a funhouse.

Eh

It's the only movie I've started to watch and will NEVER finish.

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ok

Great concept for a film, just didn't work. Wasn't dark enough. Wasn't violent enough. Wasn't funny enough. Poorly cast. Really, the movie sucks shit, and it sucks even more shit considering how good it sounds on paper.

Remember Coppola's 'Jack'? Well, substitute Robin Williams for Brendan Fraser, and the acting challenge of portraying a child with the job of playing a talking monkey. 'Monkeybone' is essentially a strange rarety: The wrong kind of weird.

Yeah, I don't know. Was in a weird mood and it was 4am in a haunted Pennsylvania farmhouse, but here we are, giving 79 stars to Monkeybone.

Chris Kattan whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!?!?!?!

not so hot..

Seriously?

good for a one time vewing, but thats about it.

Inspires one very funny sequence with Chris Kattan as a dead gymnastics star -- he's not in it for long, but you'll see why he got third billing. The rest, unfortunately, is weird. Too weird. So weird, it starts to feel like weird-for-the-sake-of-weird. And by the end, we have Naked Dave Foley.

The ambitiously realized Down Town setting deserves better than to serve yet another hokey body-swap plot.

Probably the grestest half-cartoon fantasy film about a man and his talking boner.

Weird just for the sake of it, with gags that aren't even clearly gags and nothing resembling a plot, it's a perfect example of brainless.

Bellow average comedy with some good bits, but ultimately quite scary... and not intentionally...

bad movie

What was that?

I caught this on TV. It was godawful and obnoxious.

Saw it at a test screening

One of the most underrated films ever made and it is just a bizarre wonderfully entertaining flick

so damn absurd, i watched it because its so random and wierd

Failsauce

Dumb and juvenile but also kind of entertaining and with surprisingly great visuals. I was also surprised that I didn't hate it.

Good looking, but not that entertaining.

This remains the only movie I've walked out of in the theatre.

Dont waste money on this one !!! totally confusing !! even brendan fraiser couldnt save this turkey !!

This feels like a live-action Ralph Bakshi movie. While there are certainty interesting and weird things to look at, I don't know if this all gels together to be a good story. It is a fever dream on acid with a stacked cast, but its energy often overpowers the narrative.