Monkeybone (Special Edition)

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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

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!

Customer Reviews:

Salvor Dail threw up and Andy Warhol filmed it.......2007-03-02

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 in the ooze of ick, and can't escape it's yuck of a screenplay...On a positive note, Jim Carrey isn't in it. Other then that, nothing can redeem Henry Selick, Kaja Blackley, and Sam Hamm for this putrid monstrosity, and I mean that from the bottm of my heart.

Hits 'n' Misses.......2006-12-11

I only hired this movie coz Bridget Fonda(Dream woman) was in it and tht it had a good concept. I was not expecting Gone with the Wind. I just felt like watching a comedy. This seemed to promise some laughs.The movie started out pretty good with the cartoon promo but when he is in a coma and got sent to Down Town it got a bit weird. I didn't know whether it was a dream or hell at first. There are a lot of holes in the script. Much of the characters were 2 dimentional, even Brendon Frasier's character was. The running time went by fast refusing to give the audience more information.
The character Monkeybone was very creative but very cliche. Think Roger Rabbit. John Turturros funny voice makes him quite likable but at the same time anoying. If the creators were trying to make a timeless character they failed. Frasier as Monkeybone was actually quite convincing, maybe because I don't have much faith in him when it comes to comedy. Bridget Fonda's character was kinda wasted which makes me sad. Shes been doing roles like that for ages. The bedroom scene, I noticed Bridget acting bad. She didn't seem to think something was wrong with her hubby who seems to be jumping around on the bed dancing to 'Foxy Lady'. She could have at least put in some confused/shocking expressions. Although I did like it when she was getting undressed behind closed curtains. In this movie she felt like eye-canding to me which I found disappointing. She can do better than that. Frasier & Fonda seemed to have fin chemisry. Chris Kattan was very good and funny. He also convinced me he was Fraiser. Maybe he should have been lead. Unfortunitly he only lasted the final 20 mins of the movie.
The movie does suceed in senseless laughter but only in some parts and the plot was good enough to keep my attention. The movie was 'what you see is what you get' and I wasn't disappointed. It wasn't great but it was descent and thats enough. I recommend this movie to anyone who just feels like getting a cheap laugh.

as great as 'strangelove' . . . and funnier.......2006-08-22

O.K. Duffers! Put up your dukes. Without question the most tasteless, reckless, perjoratively brilliant film ever made. Attacks all sacred cows of Amazon reviewers such as the little girl from Kansas who thinks that Micheal Moore ought to be tried for treason, "cause I just can't stand him". A few of the sacred cows?: the medical establishment, modern science, animation, family films - and family values, PG-13 type movies, love making, love itself, "steamy" sex scenes performed with clothes on, Christian eschatology, religion, Divine Command Theory, human relationships, so-called purpose, will, the meaning of life, life/death, etc. The casting of Whoopi Goldberg as God is simply the perfection of the genre; the acting is utterly without pretention or ham, magnificent up and down the line; and the direction, set design, and editing of one zany scene after another of daunting intricacy should have been awarded Oscars. And they might have, had not the film (which apparently drove the producers into virtual or actual bankrupcy - sort of the 'Heaven's Gate' of comedies), insulted essentially over 95% of any audience who ever saw it in a theatre, and probably most of those who saw it somewhere else. I, however, loved it - the trite "picture truly worth a thousand words" never rung more true - saying in both pictures and words most everything I've ever wanted to say to most everyone I've met over the past thirty years - but never had the time, will, or wit to quite as efficiently lay it on the line.

one of the worst films of the last 20 years..this is no joke.......2006-07-22

the plot is very original and the special effects are cool but the jokes all fail...badly..with jerking off jokes like "excuse me i have to go choke my monkey" this is a film that falls short in laughs and i mean that

Strange.......2006-06-22

Weird movie. Not really what I expected, and not really enough to keep my interest.

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Bone voyage
Call it the Bone Snatcher or the Sandmother, the results are still uninspiring
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The Bone Snatcher
Starring: Scott Bairstow , Rachel Shelley , Warrick Grier , Patrick Shai , and Andre Weideman
Director: Jason Wulfsohn
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
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ASIN: B0000D0YVO
Release Date: 2003-12-23

Description

Alex, a scientist who hates field-work, finds himself in a truck surrounded by sand flies and blowing dirt, bouncing across the desert. What is probably the worst day in his life is about to get worse. As he clings to his seat, a radio call comes through - four prospectors who disappeared in the desert have been found stripped of flesh with their bones scattered around a strange rock dome. With no clues to the massacre, things become terrifying when Alex discovers that he and his colleagues are being hunted by millions of creatures united into one horrifying and unstoppable killing machine. As darkness descends, the ground they stand on becomes a living carpet capable of devouring their flesh with every step. Hell has been unleashed!

Customer Reviews:

The Mommy but newer.......2007-07-29

I saw bits of this movie today during free times. The actions I did see looked very good. When scientist dissapear in a mine in the middle ofn Africa a team discovers and demonic enty. It feed on the energy and water of the living and can turn water into acid. This moving should be fine for kids age 17 to 105 due to some grapic images and maybe occasional thematic elements. Can the stop the evil spirtual entity before it takes more lives find out in the thrilling conclusion

Derivative but highly atmospheric horror.......2005-11-28

**spoilers**

OK, so the serious horror/sci-fi buff will recognise numerous hat-tips or rip-offs during the Bone Snatcher (Them, Alien, The Thing, Blair Witch, Forbidden Planet, Tremors and many more spring to mind), but it still pulls the right strings and certainly is a well-made, entertaining and memorable movie.

A sandy desolation is not an overused scenario for this genre and I found it made for a delightfully evocative and creepy backdrop to this hefty dollop of grand guignol gore.

The entity, being constructed from human remains is cadaverously grotesque when it finally makes an appearance, and its method of infecting the humans (especially the unfortunate Titus and the poor guy in the sleeping bag) is suitably nasty.

The pace of the move is spot on; an opening shock gives way to a measured section devoted to scene-setting and characterisation, before the real gore-fest begins.

Reasonable acting (although some of the testosterone-fuelled posturing came over as a bit OTT) and the very non-Hollywood accents made for a refreshing change too!

Not bad at all!

Bone voyage.......2005-10-09

A couple of diamond prospectors are tapping around on hard places when one actually caves in. Naturally he has to look inside and you can guess who disappears.

Mean time Dr. Zack Straker (Scott Bairstow) shows up and has fun learning the culture and different quirks of the employees of a local mine consortium.

They run into the empty pit and signs of the missing prospectors. We also are reminded that on Zack arrival we see a mysterious native with a strange fetish. Evidently there is more to the story than some missing people. To add to the mix is the beautiful Mikki (Rachel Shelley) to add to the potential love angle.

There may be something ancient that snatches bones for nefarious purposes or is it all one big bugaboo?

Call it the Bone Snatcher or the Sandmother, the results are still uninspiring.......2005-10-08

Dr. Zack Straker (Scott Bairstow, "Party of Five") shows up from Canada to do some research at a mining camp in South Africa, but that becomes pretty irrelevant when a group of geologists searching for a diamond mine in the desert of Nambia disappear. So Straker heads out to do search and rescue with the rest of the film's potential victims, Karl (Warrick Grier), Mikki (Rachel Shelley), Titus (Patrick Shai), Kurt (Andre Weidermen), and Magda (Adrienne Pearce). They find the corpses of the three missing men and are stunned to discover the bodies have been reduced to virtual skeletons in just six hours. Since we caught the title of the movie, we know that the culprit is "The Bone Snatcher." Of course, this would make more sense if the creature took the bones and left the flesh, but do you want to sit through a film called "The Flesh Snatcher"?

Actually, the South African title for this film, which also had backing from the UK and Canada, was "Sandmother," which actually fits the plot better than "The Bone Snatcher." I did not know that diamond mines were found in the desert, but the Nambia Desert is the home of some infamous diamond mines discovered in 1908. But the titular creature of this 2003 is found beneath the beneath the sands and not in mine caves, although is she were expecting the relationship between the monster here and the sand to be similar to that between the shark and the water in "Jaws," you will be sadly mistaken. This is one of those horror movies where the mysterious monster shows up, people die, and the star of the movie explains the unexplainable before they kill the monster and he kisses the girl right before the fadeout.

The cinematography is pretty good for this film, which has an unusual problem in that it spends half the time trying to create a sense of horror in blinding bright light on the hot sands of a desert, which, you have to admit, stacks the odds against you. But there are night sequences where things get more conventional. Director Jason Wulfsohn does a more than competent job as long as you are not paying attention to the uninspiring acting by the cast playing out their stereotypical roles and the less than stellar CGI special effects. This DVD has the trailer for the film but nothing else in terms of special features, which makes sense because this film is nothing special. I never really got into it, not even to get some pleasure from taking it apart, although I did entertain rewriting the lyrics to the Monkees' song "Star Collector" to do the plot, but it was just not worth the effort. However, if you know the song and like the idea, go ahead and knock yourself out.

yeech and double-yeech!.......2005-08-19

Is this the dumbest movie ever made? No, that dubious distinction would have to go to "Superman III," with Richard Pryor.

However, this film cetainly gives that one a run for its money, so unbelievably dumb, poorly directed, atrociously acted, idiotically scripted, and inanely conceived is it.

The only good thing I can manage to say about this thing is that the production actually did pack up and head out to a real desert to film it, so the setting at least comes across as visually convincing.

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The Mommy but newer
Derivative but highly atmospheric horror
Bone voyage
Call it the Bone Snatcher or the Sandmother, the results are still uninspiring
yeech and double-yeech!

The Bone Snatcher [Region 2]
Starring: Scott Bairstow , Rachel Shelley , Warrick Grier , Patrick Shai , and Andre Weideman
Director: Jason Wulfsohn
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Customer Reviews:

The Mommy but newer.......2007-07-29

Derivative but highly atmospheric horror.......2005-11-28

Bone voyage.......2005-10-09

Call it the Bone Snatcher or the Sandmother, the results are still uninspiring.......2005-10-08

yeech and double-yeech!.......2005-08-19

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