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Editorial Review:
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

Monkeybone [Region 2] Reviews:
Ugh!
2009-11-28 - I love this movie and was really looking forward ti getting it. The shipping was very fast but the dvd is so scratched that is skips in multiple areas. The description said like new and in very good condition. That is not what I received. It would have been very nice to know that the disc was scratched.

Glad to have found it!
2009-09-22 - Very happy to have found this copy of this movie and add it to my collection! I am a huge Brendan fraser fan, thank you for helping me! Great price and very fast shipping from this vendor, I appreciate it!

monkey bone dvd
2009-04-16 - 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!!!
2009-04-04 - 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
2009-02-17 - 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...