Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Owen Shore
One of the best films of 2001, highly recommended for Brendan Fraser heads. He really shows off his versatility in this movie, acting as more then one character (a monkey even !) This movie was funny but parts of it were also a bit creepy at time. Whoopie Goldberg was really funny in this one, her sassy attitude was funny. I also enjoyed when they were in Monkeybone world it reminded me of nightmare before Christmas. However if your watching this with your younger kids than i might recommend screening it first so you can hide the scary parts :)older kids can watch monkeybone no problemFavorite quote: 'The woman I love is living with a horny little monkey that looks like me!'
Python Hyena
Monkeybone (2001): Dir: Henry Selick / Cast: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan, Rose McGowan: Brendan Fraser plays a cartoonist who creates Monkey Bone, which is obvious slang. This character is being celebrated at a banquet but on his way home he is in a car accident that renders him unconscious. His sister apparently made a pact that if either of them was to be on life support then the plug would be pulled. His girlfriend discovers that he is in nightmare land and needs nightmare juice to scare him awake. The reality of being cast in a film this shitty should be enough to scare anybody awake. This nightmare world is beautifully detailed with odd creatures but Fraser must get past to reality. Unfortunately Monkey Bone also gets past and possesses his body. Director Henry Selick was more successful creating James and the Giant Peach but here he loses control. Fraser handles the cartoon posturing effectively but the whole nightmare land element needs better explaining than what we are given. Bridget Fonda as his girlfriend is flat. Whoopi Goldberg is horrible as the nightmare judge. Chris Kattan is featured with a distorted body. Rose McGowan plays a character named Miss Kitty, which sounds too kinky for this mess. After this film he will likely have a distorted career. Forgettable mess makes one wonder if Selick was in nightmare land. Score: 1 / 10
TheLittleSongbird
I am not saying that Henry Selick's films are bad, I loved Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline and I liked James and the Giant Peach. Monkeybone isn't completely terrible, it's just that it isn't particularly good either. The visuals do look great, as Selick's output often does. The soundtrack is memorable and Kitty is hot. However, the characters are dull and lacking any sort of personality particularly Fraser. The story had a good premise but was overall uninteresting and drags badly towards the end. The script has a lot of unfunny jokes and the dialogue itself epitomises blandness. On paper the cast seemed like a winner, but you know there's something wrong when all of them including Bridget Fonda are bogged down by lame writing and a dull character each. Overall, a disappointing movie and Selick's worst. It is not as bad as a movie of this sort like Cool World, because at least Monkeybone looked great and made sense, Monkeybone's problems were that it was dull in the story and characters and that it was poorly written. 4/10 Bethany Cox
Jerry Breen
I'm a 61-year-old movie buff. I've seen countless thousands of films and this is without a doubt the worst film I've ever seen. While Ed Wood's movies have been so described, they are actually naively inept but charmingly klutzy and quite entertaining. That's why they're still popular after 50 years. "Monkeybone", on the other hand, has a huge crew of talented actors, director and other contributors, some of them Oscar winners and multiple nominees, who've produced many classic films. It obviously also had a large production budget. Yet all of these talented people have combined to create a film that is incoherent, repulsive and painful to watch. So bad it's unbelievable. Awesomely bad. It would be torture to see it again. Perhaps "Monkeybone" explains the retirement of the beautiful and talented Bridget Fonda. Who could blame her?
