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Funky Monkey
List Price: $14.98
Available from Amazon
$13.49
on 11-28-2008
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Features
Actors: Matthew Modine, Roma Downey, Seth Adkins, Alexandre Aubry, Jean-Luc Orofino
Directors: Harry Basil
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: May 10, 2005
Run Time: 94 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (11 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
Look at the box for this movie. Isn't that just the happiest monkey you've seen since Diddy Kong? Dispite being in a combat suit, he's happy, and waving towards the viewer. That's the monkey on the box. The monkey in the movie however, is a total jerk, and not funky in the slightest bit. Yeah, this is a kid's movie. But I fail to see what kind of kid this movie's for. Segments with the monkey doing things are drawn out, almost like something should've happened a few times before it actually does. Add in yet another side-story about a boy who gets a dad during this misadventure (I seem to be seeing tons of those lately), and you have one of the most trite things to come out of Hollywood. C'mon Warner Bros., I expected more from you guys. Even Gilbert Gottfried's short appearence couldn't help this movie in the slightest bit. The movie starts out with two guys breaking into a building of some sort. What it exactly is, we're not sure. But they enter a room from the ceiling Mission Impossible-style, just dangling above security lasers, in attempt to steal a crystal banana. Enter the monkey: Clemens (because that's the best name for a monkey). He's with them, and drops a banana through the lasers, which sets off the security system. All hell breaks loose, and the secuity guards enter, but are all taken out by a guy in a monkey suit. Literally. Clemens magically doubles in size, his legs are much longer, and he's taking out everyone like Nancy Carrigan. He and the two others escape back to headquarters where Clemens is put away for future testing. His partner, McCall, won't have this, and frees Clemens by driving a motorcycle through a huge window directly in front of Clemens' cell. Great room placement there. 8 minutes into the movie, the opening credits are still rolling in, and we're wondering what's going on. It turns out that Flick, the guy in charge of the place Clemens was being held, is making super simian soldiers. Yes, it is as stupid as it sounds. Apparently, Clemens is the only one that's been a success, as we never see the other monkeys until later on in the movie. McCall and the monkey make way towards a zoo, where he hopes to release Clemens after vaccinating him, so he can live a normal life and not be taken away again. Once more, Clemens takes out everyone in the room, including Tommy Davidson (thank god). While running loose in the zoo, he encounters a boy, Michael, who was earlier tortured by bigger kids on scooters while riding his bike. The two share a moment, and become buddy-buddy. McCall and Clemens stay at Michael's house to evade Flick and his goons while trying to escape and let the world know about his evil plans. I got a headache just typing that up, and that's not even halfway into the movie. Michael's mostly in the movie to give viewers something else to not care about. He's a tiny kid, 'can't be more than 90 pounds, and is in highschool. The coach comes up to him, asking him to tutor the football team so they don't fail, and can play in the games that season. He agrees as long as he can get a spot on the team, official or not. He just wants a uniform to impress a girl, one that ALREADY likes him. Later on, Michael and Clemens get into a fight with bikers with matching outfits because Michael hits one with a football. This leads to a Crouching Tiger fight where they fly tens of yards with a kick from a tiny monkey leg. After this, they bond even more in a montage of Twister, milkshake making, dancing in their underwear ala Tom Cruise, vigerously pumping Super Soakers, playing naked doctor, and more. Or at least I think that last one happened. I like to think it did anyway. Flick's henchmen were supposed to capture Clemens, but failed a few times as the movie progresses. So he calls in the Chow Brothers, a trio of Asian assassins who have the power, when together, to get beat up by a 14 year old and a monkey in a 3-minute time span. This power rivals the usefulness of Aquaman's. 56 minutes into the movie, we're introduced to a CG background of a sunset, becuase it's so hard to tape actual sunsets these days, what with them not being CG and all, and soon, Gilbert Gottfried shows up. He plays Dr. Spleen, and quotes Planet of the Apes in a priceless moment, doing what he does best. Sadly, he's in the movie for all of 2 minutes, and is never seen again. What it came down to was that this was just a bad movie. The acting was all bad, especially by McCall, who is the new Bill Paxton as far as I'm concerned. If you watch Twister, and then Funky Monkey here, it's uncanny how similar the two are. There's the obligatory romance between McCall and Michael's mom, who never even mentions if she's married or not. Nitwit henchmen of Flick's who should've been fired long before getting an assignment like this. A monkey who never does anything but fight and play football. And that's the whole movie. Nothing ever really happens to make us care for Clemens. He could've been taken away and never released for all I care. He just wasn't well-liked. Always doing his own thing and making Michael lie to the girl he has a crush on. Yes, a MONKEY makes a HUMAN lie here. We're all goin' down. The picture and audio quality were what I'd expect from a direct-to-video movie. Fuzzy and tolerable. Though the music does step up a notch halfway though, it's nothing you'd want to impress people with using your big sound system. Sometimes though, voices were hard to hear, and I was forced to use captions/subtitles. There are no special features. None. Not even a trailer, which doesn't surprise me, as this movie was never advertised as far as I know. You get the audio set-up, and a chapter selection on the main menu in addition to playing the movie. This saves you an' me both some time in this category. If you want a fun animal movie, get something with Wishbone. If you want a family/animal movie, get Babe or Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. If you want something that makes you want to push yourself down the stairs, by all means, get Funky Monkey. Even now, after the movie's over and I type this, I'm trying to figure out why they put "funky" in the title. There was nothing funky about this monkey. Even his fashion sense was plain. What a loser of a monkey.
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Price: $13.49
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