Description: It's rude! It's raunchy! It's totally outrageous! Brendan Fraser goes bananas in this comedy that breaks all the rules. After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!
Amazon.com: Brendan Fraser plays the best-looking cartoonist you'll ever see in Monkeybone. Stu (Fraser) has created an animated character named Monkeybone, who sprang from his repressed sexual anxieties. He's just sold his animated series to a cable channel, and is being bombarded with proposals for toys and other marketing extravaganzas, when he and his girlfriend Julie (Bridget Fonda) get into a car wreck and Stu falls into a coma. But comas are much more complicated than you might expect: Stu finds himself in Down Town, where lives a mixture of other people in comas and figments of these people's imaginations. Naturally, Monkeybone himself is there, and he and Stu quickly start fighting like cats and dogs. When Stu realizes that his sister, due to a pact they once made, is preparing to pull the plug on him, Stu makes a deal with Hypnos, the god of sleep, to help him steal a golden ticket from Death himself (or herself, as Death is played by Whoopi Goldberg). Sound complicated? Well, from there it only gets more ornate. Monkeybone is a bit of a mess, but it's never boring, and every now and then it roars to amazingly dynamic life. Fraser is excellent, and the strong supporting cast includes Giancarlo Esposito (Do the Right Thing), Rose McGowan (Scream), Dave Foley (Brain Candy), and Saturday Night Live's Chris Kattan as a gymnast with a broken neck who... well, it's a bit complicated to explain. A crazy quilt of a movie, chock-full of delirious ideas and inspired moments. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - Monkeybone is a Win
Despite Brendan Fraser's dismissive attitude towards this movie, it is absolutely fantastic and hilarious. The visual and dark comedic style is that of Tim Burton, in fact the director, Henry Selick, was ... Read More
Rating: - Good one - but don't let the title fool you.
Just because it has Brendan Frazer and Chris Katan in it and it's got some cartoon action, do not be fooled. Yes, it's VERY funny. But some of the humor is a little beyond youngsters. I don't recommend this ... Read More
Rating: - The Weirdest Movie You'll Ever See
By weird I do truly mean weird, in a way that you can't possibly see what was going through writer, Sam Hamms mind when devising this film. The story itself is weird enough but when focusing on the land of nightmares, ... Read More
Rating: - I chuckled once at the end at a Whoppi line...that's it!
A friend of mine worked on the digital painting of MONKEYBONE so she asked me to watch it.Well?......her work was good!
Brendan Fraser is a good looking guy, but a comedian he ain't! This film was soooooo ... Read More
Rating: - Salvor Dail threw up and Andy Warhol filmed it
It has been a couple years since I've seen this, and I can still honestly say that it's like watching a Andy Warhol movie of Salvor Dail puking. A kind of swirly colorful mess, with Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda stuck ... Read More
- Monkeybone is a Win
- Good one - but don't let the title fool you.
- I chuckled once at the end at a Whoppi line...that's it!
- Salvor Dail threw up and Andy Warhol filmed it