Monkeybone
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Monkeybone |
| Original title | Monkeybone |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henry Selick |
| script | Sam Hamm |
| production |
Michael Barnathan , Mark Radcliffe |
| music | Anne Dudley |
| camera | Andrew Dunn |
| cut |
Jon Poll , Nicholas C. Smith , Mark Warner |
| occupation | |
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Monkeybone is an American fantasy comedy by Henry Selick from the year 2001 . Sam Hamm's script is based on the cartoon Dark Town by Kaja Blackley .
action
Stu Miley is a cartoonist, he created the cartoon Monkeybone about a monkey so named. Miley suffers from nightmares, which is why he was told by Dr. Julie McElroy is treated, with whom he falls in love. She inspired Miley for the cartoon that made him successful.
Miley experiences an accident after which he is in a comatose state. In this state he experiences a fantasy world in which he meets Monkeybone . Monkeybone takes over Miley's body by coming to earth. Miley is arrested and meets writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King in prison . He learns about a conspiracy by characters from the fantasy world to take over the bodies of well-known real-world authors.
A fantasy figure frees Miley from prison. He takes over a body and fights against his opponent until both are killed by the arriving police.
Death unites the personalities of Miley and Monkeybone in one body that is sent into the real world.
Reviews
Michael O'Sullivan wrote in the Washington Post on February 23, 2001 that the comedy was funny in places but not consistently enough. The special effects are "impressive".
The lexicon of international films wrote: “A technically successful mixture of real, character and puppet animation, whose poor script, determined by shoddy humor, but never the slumbering in the original ' Dr. Reached Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 'motif. No more than a reasonably scary ghost train ride. "
Awards
The film was nominated for the Taurus Award in 2002 in two categories .
background
The film was shot in Los Angeles and San Francisco . Its production amounted to an estimated 75 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 5.4 million in US theaters and approximately $ 2.2 million in other countries.
Web links
- Monkeybone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Monkeybone at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Monkeybone at Metacritic (English)
- Monkeybone in the online movie database
- Monkeybone in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Monkeybone . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; test number: 87 330 V).
- ↑ www.themoviespoiler.com ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review by Michael O'Sullivan, accessed July 13, 2007
- ↑ Monkeybone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Filming locations for Monkeybone, accessed July 13, 2007
- ↑ Box office / business for Monkeybone, accessed July 13, 2007
