I have to admit that I am a fan of Brendan Fraiser. He is a good actor with one of the greatest sarcasm-deliveries that I have seen up to this day. He has starred in several genres of movies, and I have yet to be dissapointed about his performance.
The latest of his movies that I saw was Inkheart, but it's too early for me to dissect that movie for now. I'll leave that for later. I can just add shortly that it was a great movie, and that I recommend it for fantasy fans. I wish I had a Silver Tounge too.
The movie that I want to write about here is Monkeybone, also starring Brendan Fraiser.
It's a rather bizarre movie with dark humor, which adds to me liking it more.
We have the main character, Stu Miley, who is a cartoonist. He has created a character, a monkey named Monkeybone. In Monkeybone's cartoons, Monkeybone gets into mischief due to his inappropriate actions.
The cartoon has lead to Stu's success as a cartoonist, and he has became famous. When leaving a preview of one of the newest Monkeybone features, rather angry because of the uncomfort of being famous, Stu crashes with his car and falls into a coma.
Although the "main protaginist falls into a coma" plot has been exploited alot in movies during the start of cinema, but I think that it was well executed in this movie. But as many great movies, they are based of books, in Monkeybone's case it's Dark Town, written by Kaja Blackley.
After Stu falls into coma, we get to the really interesting part of the story.
He finds himself in the "coma-world", a bizarre place where all people that are in the state of coma stay while they wait for getting a ticket back out. Some people get out in time, others not at all.
The world is black, with monsters resembling those of the greek mythology.
Stu had before his accident suffered from serious nighmares, which are popular in the coma-world as entertainment. We find out that while Stu drew with his right hand, all he could draw was all the nightmares that he have had. When he switched to his left hand, he drew Monkeybone, his ticket to success.
The coma-world is a great part of this movie and it's well-explored. The designs of the place and monsters mix in well together, and give a great boost to Brendan Fraiser's acting, where he shows confusion, despair and fear of the place where he has woken up into.
Anyhow, to proceed the review into a continous flow, rather than a stagnant, I'll describe the events following Stu's introduction into the coma-world.
Stu had been shown earlier having a fiancée. They switch to her coupling with Stu's coma, and finding out that he was to ask her to marry him with his grandmother's wedding ring.
When time goes, she has to deal with Stu's sister, who claims that she and Stu had a pact to never stay at life support like a vegetable, so she decides that it will be taken off.
Stu's fiancée breaks into a lab, stealing a drug that induces nightmares, hoping that the psychological stress will wake him up. She gives him a huge dose, without results.
Meanwhile in the coma-world, Stu has met with his creation, Monkeybone, a really annoying primate that acts just as he does in his cartoons.
We find out that Stu's fiancées drug actually worked, as Stu gets his ticket (he manages to steal it from Death herself, played by Whoopi Goldberg), but meanwhile the doctor in the hospital is about to pull the plug on the life support.
Just as Stu is to go to the lift that will take him out, Monkeybone jumps into the lift, taking his place. Stu wakes up, acting like Monkeybone.
A series of events will follow, with Stu's fiancée starting to doubt that it's the real Stu before her, when Monkeybone-Stu acts quite the opposite of Stu.
Meanwhile we see Stu, who just wants a chance to tell his fiancée that he loves her, trying to get out from the coma-world once again. We find out that a series of famous people also got their ticket stolen from their creations, a rather funny and comedical scene in my mind.
Stu speaks with death, apologizes for the theft, and gets his ticket when he clarifies that he is in love and that the only thing he wants is to tell his fiancée that he loves her.
He gets assigned a new body, and the only one avalible is the one of an athlete that was killed by getting run over by a bus. He wakes up just at the surgeons are to take out his organs, describing which organ is to become a new yacht or house for themselves. It's a rather funny scene.
Apparently Stu's new body doesn't need it's internal organs, and he escapes the hospital with several surgeons chasing him.
He takes himself to a fund raising event, where Monkeybone-Stu is holding some kind of show. He starts to chase him, and they both end up in a balloon, ending with them both falling down and the end is...death?
We find out during the movie that the cause of Monkeybone taking Stu's body is that he had a scheme with the Devil (I think he was the Devil at least) to go out into the living world, and to produce a nightmare-inducing spray to be spread to people via Monkeybone toys (more precisely farting Monkeybone dolls). With increased nightmares would come increased profits and entertainment in the coma-world.
Overall the movie has a great plot, with different desires intervening with eachother. The ideas are kind of original, and I have yet to see another movie to fascinate me, and left me thinking as much as this one has. Believe me or not, it's a comedy with depth. When have that happened before, ever?
We have great actors, especially, if I have to say it again, Brendan Fraiser.
Regarding the design of the coma-world, it's rather perfectly executed. Some requisita may seem rather artificial, but that won't bother much as it's an artificial world from our eyes after all.
I would recommend this movie to everyone, but it's not a mainstream comedy, mind that. Now buy the movie, don't download it, please. Support good movies, so that we will have more ones!
Next up is a review of the movie version Clockwork Orange, with some analysis between it and the novel with the same name.
Peace out.
ps. Monkeybone sounds like an alternative name for erection. I think that I'll use that.
The latest of his movies that I saw was Inkheart, but it's too early for me to dissect that movie for now. I'll leave that for later. I can just add shortly that it was a great movie, and that I recommend it for fantasy fans. I wish I had a Silver Tounge too.
The movie that I want to write about here is Monkeybone, also starring Brendan Fraiser.
It's a rather bizarre movie with dark humor, which adds to me liking it more.
We have the main character, Stu Miley, who is a cartoonist. He has created a character, a monkey named Monkeybone. In Monkeybone's cartoons, Monkeybone gets into mischief due to his inappropriate actions.
The cartoon has lead to Stu's success as a cartoonist, and he has became famous. When leaving a preview of one of the newest Monkeybone features, rather angry because of the uncomfort of being famous, Stu crashes with his car and falls into a coma.
Although the "main protaginist falls into a coma" plot has been exploited alot in movies during the start of cinema, but I think that it was well executed in this movie. But as many great movies, they are based of books, in Monkeybone's case it's Dark Town, written by Kaja Blackley.
After Stu falls into coma, we get to the really interesting part of the story.
He finds himself in the "coma-world", a bizarre place where all people that are in the state of coma stay while they wait for getting a ticket back out. Some people get out in time, others not at all.
The world is black, with monsters resembling those of the greek mythology.
Stu had before his accident suffered from serious nighmares, which are popular in the coma-world as entertainment. We find out that while Stu drew with his right hand, all he could draw was all the nightmares that he have had. When he switched to his left hand, he drew Monkeybone, his ticket to success.
The coma-world is a great part of this movie and it's well-explored. The designs of the place and monsters mix in well together, and give a great boost to Brendan Fraiser's acting, where he shows confusion, despair and fear of the place where he has woken up into.
Anyhow, to proceed the review into a continous flow, rather than a stagnant, I'll describe the events following Stu's introduction into the coma-world.
Stu had been shown earlier having a fiancée. They switch to her coupling with Stu's coma, and finding out that he was to ask her to marry him with his grandmother's wedding ring.
When time goes, she has to deal with Stu's sister, who claims that she and Stu had a pact to never stay at life support like a vegetable, so she decides that it will be taken off.
Stu's fiancée breaks into a lab, stealing a drug that induces nightmares, hoping that the psychological stress will wake him up. She gives him a huge dose, without results.
Meanwhile in the coma-world, Stu has met with his creation, Monkeybone, a really annoying primate that acts just as he does in his cartoons.
We find out that Stu's fiancées drug actually worked, as Stu gets his ticket (he manages to steal it from Death herself, played by Whoopi Goldberg), but meanwhile the doctor in the hospital is about to pull the plug on the life support.
Just as Stu is to go to the lift that will take him out, Monkeybone jumps into the lift, taking his place. Stu wakes up, acting like Monkeybone.
A series of events will follow, with Stu's fiancée starting to doubt that it's the real Stu before her, when Monkeybone-Stu acts quite the opposite of Stu.
Meanwhile we see Stu, who just wants a chance to tell his fiancée that he loves her, trying to get out from the coma-world once again. We find out that a series of famous people also got their ticket stolen from their creations, a rather funny and comedical scene in my mind.
Stu speaks with death, apologizes for the theft, and gets his ticket when he clarifies that he is in love and that the only thing he wants is to tell his fiancée that he loves her.
He gets assigned a new body, and the only one avalible is the one of an athlete that was killed by getting run over by a bus. He wakes up just at the surgeons are to take out his organs, describing which organ is to become a new yacht or house for themselves. It's a rather funny scene.
Apparently Stu's new body doesn't need it's internal organs, and he escapes the hospital with several surgeons chasing him.
He takes himself to a fund raising event, where Monkeybone-Stu is holding some kind of show. He starts to chase him, and they both end up in a balloon, ending with them both falling down and the end is...death?
We find out during the movie that the cause of Monkeybone taking Stu's body is that he had a scheme with the Devil (I think he was the Devil at least) to go out into the living world, and to produce a nightmare-inducing spray to be spread to people via Monkeybone toys (more precisely farting Monkeybone dolls). With increased nightmares would come increased profits and entertainment in the coma-world.
Overall the movie has a great plot, with different desires intervening with eachother. The ideas are kind of original, and I have yet to see another movie to fascinate me, and left me thinking as much as this one has. Believe me or not, it's a comedy with depth. When have that happened before, ever?
We have great actors, especially, if I have to say it again, Brendan Fraiser.
Regarding the design of the coma-world, it's rather perfectly executed. Some requisita may seem rather artificial, but that won't bother much as it's an artificial world from our eyes after all.
I would recommend this movie to everyone, but it's not a mainstream comedy, mind that. Now buy the movie, don't download it, please. Support good movies, so that we will have more ones!
Next up is a review of the movie version Clockwork Orange, with some analysis between it and the novel with the same name.
Peace out.
ps. Monkeybone sounds like an alternative name for erection. I think that I'll use that.
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Well, that is a great movie with a great performance by the ambidextrous Brendan Fraser, and a great post about it as well.
SvaraRaderaI hope your 5 starving children get some food soon Samwise. Or they'll continue to starve.
I love that you describe yourself as "Young. Sexy. Unsuccessful". That's hilarious!
I don't think that it's hilarious that I'm young and sexy, it's a serious matter.
SvaraRaderaAnd you don't laugh at someones lack of success.
My lack of success has lead to my five starving children.
Myself, I'm pretty stuffed right now.
:D Ha ha!
SvaraRadera