Professor Popinjay's Compendium of Perspicacity

A Non-Review by Professor Popinjay

I hate when they (gnomes) put someone on the box art who is only in the movie for five minutes or less. Imagine seeing Cate Blanchett on the Cover of Hot Fuzz. You didn’t even know she was in that movie did you!?! ANSWER ME!

The box art for Monkey Bone features Brendan Fraser and for some reason, Chris Kattan. Both are enjoyable to watch but Chris Kattan was in this movie for like 15 minutes. That was kind of disappointing.

I had made a lot of assumptions based just on the box art of Monkey Bone which I know is never a good idea. Knowing a little about the film beforehand I had assumed Chris Kattan was the title character but this was completely my misconception. I won’t give it away as to who he is exactly but Monkey Bone is actually a cartoon figment of Brendan Fraser’s imagination. There, now you’re not confused.

This film was freaking weird and I’ve heard a lot of bad things about it but frankly, I liked it. Yes, it was a nightmarish fever dream trumping Alice and Wonderland by far and I enjoyed the step out of the standard box for a change. The film did get a little confused as to what world (dream world or real world) was meant to be the crazy one but I’ll allow it. I allow most things anyway so whatever.

I generally prefer a more cerebral ending as opposed to wacky hijinks and a fight but again, whatever.

I thought the plot was ambitious and pretty compelling. I felt like some scenes were missing though which threw the individual scenes out of order. There needed to be some sinister way of explaining how the people in the dream world knew about the nightmare serum and how they devised the plot to use it. That plot was Batman Big. It was Independence Day Big. It was I,Robot Big. It could have been epic, but all we see is a bunch of idiot snobs at a party getting a dose of new nightmares on top of the ones I’m sure they already have. Who cares? Interesting movie though. Whoopi Goldberg was enjoyable as Death and Thomas Hayden Church who went uncredited as Death’s overzealous but strangely unspoken assistant was funny too. Why wasn’t HE on the box art?