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Monkeybone
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude humor and some nudity
Starring
Brendan Fraser,
Bridget Fonda,
Rose McGowan,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Chris Kattan,
Dave Foley,
Megan Mullally,
and
John Turturro
Combining live action and stop animation, this comedy revolves around a cartoonist (Fraser) and the incredible fantasy world he encounters after he slips into a coma.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Kaja Blackley (graphic novel Dark Town)
Sam Hamm
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Henry Selick
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 10, 2001
Video: July 10, 2001
Theatrical: February 23, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's unwieldy mess -- but there's also unruly brilliance to this dark and funny story about the havoc that ensues when a man's uncensored Freudian id is allowed the run of the place.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Grand fantasy, in which Brendan Fraser and stylish design and energetic special effects play off one another for maximum fun.

70
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The movie is booby-trapped with so many loud gags that some of its sneakier humor is nearly lost in the din.

63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Wildly uneven collage of effects and live action is no Disney-bland vision of dreams gone bonkers. There's enough Freudian material to reupholster a thousand therapy couches.

60
Film.com
Robert Horton
Looks like a very cheerful and imaginative accident.

60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A fairly serious psychodrama rendered in cartoon images.

60
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Although Monkeybone will undoubtedly make you laugh at its slapstick highjinks, the irony is that for a movie that's ultimately about soul, that's the one commodity that's in precious short supply up on the screen.

58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's alternately mind-boggling and patience-testing, mixing astounding sequences of over-the-top invention with scenes of inept acting and indifferent filmmaking.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Selick proves a clumsy director of live-action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half-baked script or the scatological gags.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An occasionally delightful mess of a movie.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
A shapeless, chaotic, overly frantic comedy that manages to make almost no sense, even if you're paying close attention.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Too grotesque for children and just too silly for their parents.

50
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Like so many movies that depend on effects for effect, plot comes in a poor second to spectacle. That leaves the Fraser, funny and sexy as hell, left with little chance to prove it.

42
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
A movie interesting enough in its conception to appeal to adults winds up being best suited to preadolescent sensibilities.

40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
The scenes set on earth--messy, predictable satire about the commercial exploitation of fevered genius. The unconscious/underworld scenes may be boring because neosurrealism is a cliche.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Feels like it's been homogenized and Hollywoodized to death.

38
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie never takes off; it's a bright idea the filmmakers were unable to breathe life into.

38
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Isn't much more creative than your average gross-out comedy.
30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Selick is widely and rightly regarded as a master of surreal, dark humor, and wildly inventive animation technique, and Monkeybone is the first tarnish on his otherwise spotless reputation.

30
Variety
Dennis Harvey
It's equal parts wacky, sappy and sniggery.

30
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Like a half-remembered dream, the movie's often so overwhelming that even its dull, dead moments (of which there are many, unfortunately) leave you wondering what you're missing and what you've just forgotten.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
A shell of a romantic fantasy festooned with characters inspired by and resembling those in the bar scene in "Star Wars," the waiting room in "Beetlejuice" and the circus in "A Bug's Life."

25
Baltimore Sun
Athima Chansanchai
A raunchy, remorseless "Curious George."
25
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
For all its antic grasping it lies flatter on the screen than its graphic novel source lies on the page.
10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Adds up to one numbingly unfunny comedy.
10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
A self-adrenalizing, self-destructing pop-culture whirligig.


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