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- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 33 m
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Combining live action and stop animation, this comedy revolves around a cartoonist (Brendan Fraser) and the incredible fantasy world he encounters after he slips into a coma.
Directed By: Henry Selick
Written By: Kaja Blackley, Sam Hamm
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 33 m
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 33 m
Monkeybone
40
7.6
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Summary Combining live action and stop animation, this comedy revolves around a cartoonist (Brendan Fraser) and the incredible fantasy world he encounters after he slips into a coma.
Directed By: Henry Selick
Written By: Kaja Blackley, Sam Hamm
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
40
18% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
39% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
43% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
40
18% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
39% Mixed
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
43% Negative
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
A fairly serious psychodrama rendered in cartoon images.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 71 User Ratings
7.6
69% Positive
49 Ratings
49 Ratings
15% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
15% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 71 User Ratings
7.6
69% Positive
49 Ratings
49 Ratings
15% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
15% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
I really didn't expect to like it as much as I did but I gave it a go because Fraser is a solid actor. Monkeybone is such a criminally underrated dark comedy that simply works, mostly because Fraser kills it as the lead. I don't think anyone else could have done it better or as good as he did.
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It'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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Selick proves a clumsy director of live-action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half-baked script or the scatological gags.
A movie interesting enough in its conception to appeal to adults winds up being best suited to preadolescent sensibilities.
Isn't much more creative than your average gross-out comedy.
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."
Adds up to one numbingly unfunny comedy.
It'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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It's not just style over substance- it's wasted style, trash writing, stiff/miscast acting, obnoxious inbred titular character, and being a contradictory comedy over substance.
Three little positives I can mine out: the visuals, director Selick's animation, and Chris Kattan's physical comedy.
The film spends most of the time with a fascination for comas and ‘nightmare juice'. Perhaps it should've stayed in either realm and spared us our lives.
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Awards
World Stunt Awards
• 2 Nominations
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
