Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Cartoonist Stu Miley (Brendan Fraser) created a popular character Monkeybone which is an inappropriate monkey. He falls into a coma after getting into a car accident. His mind is trapped in a cartoon world of his creation with his annoying alter-ego Monkeybone. His sister Kimmy Miley (Megan Mullally) is itching to pull the plug but relents to give it 3 months. His girlfriend Dr. Julie McElroy (Bridget Fonda) discovers that he was planning to propose. She discovers that Stu is in a nightmare loop and wants to inject a serum to ramp up his nightmare even more to scare him awake. Meanwhile in the dreamworld, Stu needs an Exit Pass to get out and Hypnos tells him to steal a pass from Death. Monkeybone double cross Stu stealing the pass and escapes to the real world. Stu wakes up as Monkeybone. Monkeybone is in league with Hypnos to steal Julie's nightmare serum and Stu has to escape to stop them.The live action CGI combination look more cheesy than interesting. It's like a collection from the cartoon reject pile. It doesn't have an appealing style. Worst of all, Monkeybone (John Turturro) has no charm at all. Quite frankly, the real world isn't any better. It's DOA with the cast of weird characters rejected from Beetlejuice. The story is unimportant after that. Brendan Fraser is too bitter and boring as himself and horribly annoying as Monkeybone. Neither is appealing or compelling. It's a movie without charm. There is no chance of this being funny.

Life couldn't be better for cartoonist Stu Miley. He has created a hit comic strip, Monkeybone and is happy and in love with his beautiful girlfriend Julie.On the night Stu is to propose to Julie, he is struck down in a freak accident. While Stu's body lies comatose - and Julie maintains a constant bedside vigil - his conscious spirit is transported to Downtown, a purgatory-like limbo existing between life.Upon his arrival, Stu learns his ominous fate: There's no turning back. And just as things seem like they couldn't get any worse, Stu's alter ego, Monkeybone, springs to life to stir up some trouble. Stu must outwit Death in order to return to the world of the living before the doctors pull the plug on Stu's life support....This film has so much in common with 1992's Cool World, that you could be forgiven for watching the same thing. Both colourful characters want to escape to the real world, both cannot decide to entertain young ones or adults, and both are very boring indeed.This has the edge on the other though, Fraser is likable, and Fonda is as good as ever. The main problems are when we are in the other world, it appears that Selick has taken Burtons Beetlejuice world and made it boring an unimaginative.And this is the other problem, there is no imagination, and the effects are terrible for such a big movie. Deserved of its box office, it's a film that won't tarnish any actors name, because it's a movie about nothing.Stick with Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas.

Their are many reasons for a movie to be in the running for worst film ever made. Movies like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and "The Beast From Yucca Flats" are often mentioned because of their overall low quality. Once I sat down and watch them however, I either saw them as unintentionally funny, surprisingly earnest or otherwise undeserving of such an abysmal reputation. Monkeybone on the other-hand remains one of only a handful of movies that has left me simultaneously awestruck and angry; stupefied and seething. A cringe and groan inducing mess that is certainly my official pick for worst movie ever made.Brendan Fraser stars as a successful cartoonist who falls into a coma after an accident, the details of which are too stupid to mention, and ends up in a parallel universe inside his mind where he meets his creation Monkeybone (voiced by John Turturro). Monkeybone, a lascivious little monkey with a penchant for chaos takes over his body and wreaks havoc on his relationship with his girlfriend/psychiatrist. Fraser (still in his own head we think), makes a plea to Death, played by Whoopi Goldberg and is loaned a body to win back his girl before Monkeybone gets his dirty ape hands on her.Co-stars Bridget Fonda, Megan Mullally, Dave Foley, Rose McGowan and Chris Kattan round-up an unremarkable list of "talent" that were hired to stand behind stop-motion models and in front of rejected Beetlejuice sets. The dark atmosphere of the movie struggles to integrate its scatological humor, most of which is provided by an obnoxious cartoon monkey. Its obvious the film was edited into oblivion in post-production which would account for the lion's share of the plot holes but my question is to what end? Sure it made the movie shorter (thank god!) but the plot still took two acts to actually get moving. Once it did it sprightly rushed into the last 15 minutes like a morbid Tom and Jerry cartoon.What was the prime demographic for this movie? I think the David Lynch crowd is a bit beyond poop jokes at this point and its far too dark for children. Arguably the saddest thing about this film however is the lost potential in director Henry Selick, whose previous work includes "Nightmare Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach." While Selick has since redeemed himself with 2009's "Coraline," "Monkeybone" presents the director at his nadir.Monkeybone truly bats and misses on all points. Its An ugly looking hatchback with no engine, a busy yet boring quagmire. At its very best its a slap-dashed movie that is literally all dressed up with no where to go. It showcases bad direction, bad acting, bad editing, bad cinematography, bad script, bad story. I honestly would be ashamed to be this film's boom mic operator (which is visible in one scene). The failure of this film is actually quite spectacular when you think about it. Watch it if you're masochistic, otherwise stay far away from Monkeybone!http://theyservepopcorninhell.blogspot.com/

Have you ever wanted to see a comedy that combines live-action, stop-motion animation and Computer animation? Well, on February 23 2001, Henry Selick (Director of, "James and the Giant Peach", "Coraline" and "The Nightmare before Christmas") released a comedy will all of those thing's combined. Boy does it suck.Good: It has some nice visuals and sometime's the movie can be pretty funny.Bad: This film is just like Ralph Bakshi's, "Cool World". Bad character's, it's mostly unfunny and both the plot and the story were lame."Monkeybone", is an unfunny movie that is not worth watching. If you're looking for a movie that combine's live-action and animation, watch, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".