Glad to have found it!
Added 9/22/2009
Very happy to have found this copy of this movie and add it to my collection! I am a huge Brendan fraser fan, thank you for helping me! Great price and very fast shipping from this vendor, I appreciate it!
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monkey bone dvd
Added 4/16/2009
great quality and was always a hit am glad to have this movie added back to the collection
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"It's Like the Plague! It is the Plague!!!
Added 4/4/2009
There's no other way to put it but this flick stinks to high heaven. Director Henry Selick may be trying to reference his mentor, Tim Burton, notably "Beetlejuice", but he fails miserably. The art direction is garish but not necessarily interesting. What do you about a flick when the most interesting character is a corpse played by the normally noxious Chris Kattan? Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda, performers who normally pick good material, are left out to dry here. I found this in the bargain bin at a used video store where sometimes I find interesting off-kilter stuff. This junk doesn't qualify.
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The id in action: the goofy/scary side of unconscious
Added 2/17/2009
I decided to check this out after discovering that Henry Selick (director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline) had made a live-action comedy. My expectations were not too high - given Brendan Fraser as the lead - but I was happily surprised to see that Fraser can pull off not only the glum and reluctant hero but also the goofy and giddy clown type.
Cartoonist Stu Miley is on the verge of financial success and he doesn't like it. His dark and perverse brand of humor depends on there being obstacles to happiness in his life. Of course he's about to propose to his gorgeous girlfriend and so something bad is bound to happen - an accident puts him into a coma and he finds himself in the bizarre world of his own nightmares with no escape but to steal an exit pass from death herself. The problem is his sidekick monkey - a barely veiled phallic symbol that embodies his unconscious urges - would like to get out too and has different plans for his life than the happy ending he'd hoped for.
It's a fun and silly ride - but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't more frightening: after all this is Henry Selick's film. The film has the feel of a slightly less focused and more silly version of Beetlejuice, but it isn't quite as fun (maybe because Brendan Fraser lacks the madcap talent of Michael Keaton and because his girlfriend Bridget Fonda lacks the charisma and good humor of Geena Davis), and it isn't very scary, just dementedly goofy. I mean that in a good way, and did enjoy the movie and recognize that it was a huge risk for Selick to expend his free directorial pass on a personal film that would almost surely be (and was) misunderstood by the studios and underappreciated by audiences. Definitely worth watching at least once...
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Blu-ray, please?
Added 1/26/2009
If this were available in Blu-ray, I'd buy it. Again. Such a weird little movie, but one I can watch again and again. It's not exactly high-brow, but it's splendid eye candy, and Brendan Fraser is seriously underrated.
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Desperation that leads to hilarity
Added 10/14/2009
This remake was made back in 2000, and I should have watched it in the theaters because it's very VERY hilarious! Brendan Fraser plays Elliot Richards, a man who doesn't have the nerve to ask a woman out but is desperate in doing so. That's when the Devil comes in. Played by Elizabeth Hurley, the Devil gives him seven wishes, but only if Elliot trades his soul in return. And as Elliot makes his wishes, hilarity ensues. There are tons of sight gags and some wordplay going around, and they made me laugh numerous times. Hurley was a surprise as Satan himself: she acts with charisma and wit, and her English accent adds to the much sophisticated appearance. Fraser always does well in comedies, and here he gives his usual great performance. I haven't seen the original 1967 version yet, but when I get the chance, I hope it's as funny and heartwarming as the remake.
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This is not about Brendan.
Added 9/29/2009
All of the reviews i have read so far ignore the fact that this double set is about AN ORIGINAL and ITS REMAKE. I saw the original when it came out and it stuck to my mind as one of the most anti-clerical, no target-barred (including Hollywood) movies ever to come out of Britain. Dudley Moore and Peter Cook are a perfect comedy team, and their chemistry is unbelievable. Compare with Hollywood's version: a female bimbo in red as the Devil, and hapless Brendan Frazer, who happens to be a fine comedy actor, stuck in a movie totally devoid of ideological satire. I love both versions, the British as a thinking man's movie( 5 stars) and Hollywood's as mindless fast food fare (3 stars, and only for Brendan)
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Probably the best performance ever by Brendan Fraser, and it is still god awful. In fact, seeing him on the cover should have been enough reason to run. I kept watching, waiting for the good part. Never happened. Even Liz Hurley couldn't make this worth looking at.
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