Monkeybone

[Calhoun07]

After the dimally bad Sugar and Spice DVD, I decided to watch Monkeybone. After being burned once and wasting 90 minutes of my evening on one bad film, I took the negative feedback I heard on Monkeybone in stride and decided to watch at least the first 30 minutes and then if I didn't like it, I would take out the DVD and do something else. However, after thirty minutes, I was enthralled with this movie! Maybe it's the creative side of me that identified with this movie, and the fact that I also have bizzare vivid dreams too that appealed to me, but I also enjoyed the characters and the plot struck me as original and basically well done.

But it was the last half hour of the movie that I disliked the most.

Spoiler:

When Stu took over the body of Chris Kattan, I was really turned off at this point. The movie upto then had been highly imaginative, well executed, for the most part, and really enjoyable. But come on, a corpse sits up and the doctors all respond to this bizzare phenomenon by yelling "Get back on the table"??? WTH. The movie then goes into part good moments and part moments I wish they had just left out. The moments where it is just Stubone vs Chris Kattan are great, and I thought good overall, but the moments when the doctors are trying to get the corpse back and all those organs keep falling out? I like gross humor, to an extent, but this was just wrong in a movie this imaginative. Gross out humor didn't belong in this movie at this piont, and felt way out of place. While it didn't totally ruin the movie for me, if I was reviewing it, I think I'd have to take a star or two away from the movie for the last half hour.

The deleted scenes on the DVD also reveal more details about this world, and there is one particular deleted scene I wish they had left in the movie. I don't think I am giving away any major spoilers by saying Stu gets in a coma early on in the movie. In the final cut of the film, it's simply a car accident that we see then the hospital, but it puzzles the viewer who sees his girlfriend unscathed from the car, not even a bump on the head, and her boyfriend is in a coma??? In the deleted scene, there is an extension that shows how he got in that coma, and it wasn't from the car accident exclusively, but a result of it. You will just have to get the DVD to see it! Other than the deleted scenes and extended scenes, the DVD does have secrets behind Monkeybone featurett that is ok, but not much else in the way of bonus material. I still might buy this one, tho.

[Scythemantis]

I wanted to see this movie in theatres...because of it`s bad reviews the dvd`s for it are quite cheap here...since I already know i`m going to like the movie (I always know ) i`m probably going to buy it...

[joker]

i never got a chance to see this movie, i really wanted to though

[Calhoun07]

It's not as good as Nightmare on Elm Street, or Beetleguise, two movies it seemed to be inspired by, but I thought it held up fairly well on it's own. If they only had taken more time to develop the last 30 minutes as well as they had spent on the first hour of the movie, it would have been much better.

[joker]

nightmare on elm street? i take it you mean nightmare before christmas......

[Calhoun07]

Sorry, that was a pretty easy mix up to make! I guess I could edit it, but oh well.