Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, David Foley
In a coma, a cartoonist finds himself trapped within his own underground creation and must find a way to get back, while racing against his popular but treacherous character, Monkeybone.
DVD Release Date: July 10, 2001
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September 14, 2009Monkeybone gets a lot of undeserved flack. It's by no means a great film but there's so much to like about it. Selick's imagination runs wild in the fantasy segments. He makes great use of stop-motion animation and some wonderful make-up and costumes. Rose McGowan is a particular...( read more)
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October 18, 2007The part in 'downtown' is really cool, but as a whole i hate brendan fraser so much it's hard to watch.
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July 1, 2007I thought "Monkeybone" would be as brilliant as "Beetlejuice" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" but was wrong.
It's an unfunny gross movie with lots of flat black humour. Visually, the world of the afterlife looks great with its cartoonish neon amusement park glow, but nothing fu...( read more) -
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July 23, 2009This is what happens when a film suffers from being too unrestrained. What should have been a clever dark fantasy about a comic-book artist who enters his own world is instead a textbook case of style over substance. Director Henry Selick - so wonderful with puppet animation - ha...( read more)
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Critic Reviews
February 23, 2001
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
February 23, 2001
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A welcome antidote to the epidemic of witless, frenetic, secondhand low comedies that gnaw at our brains like antibody-resistant spirochetes. full review
February 23, 2001
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie labors hard, the special effects are admirable, no expense has been spared, and yet the movie never takes off. full review
February 22, 2001
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
A supernatural fantasy of a most pedestrian nature.
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