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Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, David Foley, John Turturro, Chris Kattan
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.
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Monkeybone 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)
The part in 'downtown' is really cool, but as a whole i hate brendan fraser so much it's hard to watch.
I 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)
When Henry Selick created a Nightmare before Christmas it was the start of a new era in stop motion animation. While Selick has always stayed in the world of stop motion animation he has given us a great and wonderful time with that, James and the giant peach was phenomenal a...( read more)
This 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)
