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90A giddy madcap classic, one of the wildest and funniest American comedies in years.
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83There'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.
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80Grand fantasy, in which Brendan Fraser and stylish design and energetic special effects play off one another for maximum fun.
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70The movie is booby-trapped with so many loud gags that some of its sneakier humor is nearly lost in the din.
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63Wildly 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.
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60A fairly serious psychodrama rendered in cartoon images.
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60Looks like a very cheerful and imaginative accident.
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60Although 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.
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58It's alternately mind-boggling and patience-testing, mixing astounding sequences of over-the-top invention with scenes of inept acting and indifferent filmmaking.
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58Selick proves a clumsy director of live-action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half-baked script or the scatological gags.
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50A shapeless, chaotic, overly frantic comedy that manages to make almost no sense, even if you're paying close attention.
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50An occasionally delightful mess of a movie.
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50Too grotesque for children and just too silly for their parents.
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50Like 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.
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42A movie interesting enough in its conception to appeal to adults winds up being best suited to preadolescent sensibilities.
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40The 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.
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38The movie never takes off; it's a bright idea the filmmakers were unable to breathe life into.
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38Isn't much more creative than your average gross-out comedy.
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38Feels like it's been homogenized and Hollywoodized to death.
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30Selick 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.
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30Like 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.
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30It's equal parts wacky, sappy and sniggery.
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30The result is a script so needlessly complicated that it defies comprehension.
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25A 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."
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25For all its antic grasping it lies flatter on the screen than its graphic novel source lies on the page.
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A raunchy, remorseless "Curious George."
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10A self-adrenalizing, self-destructing pop-culture whirligig.
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10Adds up to one numbingly unfunny comedy.
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