Monkeybone |  | Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, John Turturro, Chris Kattan, Giancarlo Esposito
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 95186
Format: Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 024543019367
EAN: 0024543019367
ASIN: B000EHSVAK
Theatrical Release Date: February 23, 2001
Release Date: May 21, 2002
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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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 monkey bone dvd April 16, 2009
Robert M. Crawford
great quality and was always a hit am glad to have this movie added back to the collection
 "It's Like the Plague! It is the Plague!!! April 4, 2009
David Baldwin (Philadelphia,PA USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
There's no other way to put it but this flick stinks to high heaven. Director Henry Selick may be trying to reference his mentor, Tim Burton, notably "Beetlejuice", but he fails miserably. The art direction is garish but not necessarily interesting. What do you about a flick when the most interesting character is a corpse played by the normally noxious Chris Kattan? Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda, performers who normally pick good material, are left out to dry here. I found this in the bargain bin at a used video store where sometimes I find interesting off-kilter stuff. This junk doesn't qualify.
 The id in action: the goofy/scary side of unconscious February 17, 2009
Nathan Andersen (Florida)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I decided to check this out after discovering that Henry Selick (director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline) had made a live-action comedy. My expectations were not too high - given Brendan Fraser as the lead - but I was happily surprised to see that Fraser can pull off not only the glum and reluctant hero but also the goofy and giddy clown type.
Cartoonist Stu Miley is on the verge of financial success and he doesn't like it. His dark and perverse brand of humor depends on there being obstacles to happiness in his life. Of course he's about to propose to his gorgeous girlfriend and so something bad is bound to happen - an accident puts him into a coma and he finds himself in the bizarre world of his own nightmares with no escape but to steal an exit pass from death herself. The problem is his sidekick monkey - a barely veiled phallic symbol that embodies his unconscious urges - would like to get out too and has different plans for his life than the happy ending he'd hoped for.
It's a fun and silly ride - but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't more frightening: after all this is Henry Selick's film. The film has the feel of a slightly less focused and more silly version of Beetlejuice, but it isn't quite as fun (maybe because Brendan Fraser lacks the madcap talent of Michael Keaton and because his girlfriend Bridget Fonda lacks the charisma and good humor of Geena Davis), and it isn't very scary, just dementedly goofy. I mean that in a good way, and did enjoy the movie and recognize that it was a huge risk for Selick to expend his free directorial pass on a personal film that would almost surely be (and was) misunderstood by the studios and underappreciated by audiences. Definitely worth watching at least once...
Blu-ray, please? January 26, 2009
Random Reviewer (Florida)
If this were available in Blu-ray, I'd buy it. Again. Such a weird little movie, but one I can watch again and again. It's not exactly high-brow, but it's splendid eye candy, and Brendan Fraser is seriously underrated.
Monkeybone is a Win October 7, 2008
lamourdemordred
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 a distinct influence on Burton's style and it shows.
It is richly visual, and feels like being stuck in a Herronius Bach (sp?) painting, with Brendan Fraser, and what more could you ask for really?
oh, and I personally think that Brendan Fraser has never been babelier.
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