“Who sent the console?” he asked.
Upon release in February 2001, Monkeybone was a catastrophic bomb. It grossed just $7.6 million worldwide against a $75 million budget. The keyword is often coupled with the word "flop." monkeybone2001
The film was largely panned by critics at the time, holding a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Common criticisms included: Monkeybone (2001): Fox Wrote-Off the Entire $75M Budget “Who sent the console
Before Coraline and Kubo , Henry Selick co-directed this bizarre hybrid of live-action and stop-motion—a movie that feels like Beetlejuice on a sugar rush mixed with The Twilight Zone . The keyword is often coupled with the word "flop
MonkeyBone2001 revives the darkly comic, stop-motion-meets-live-action chaos of Henry Selick’s original film, but reframes it as a psychological thriller game-meets-movie. Audiences navigate the fractured subconscious of cartoonist Stu Miley, trapped between a coma (after a near-fatal car accident) and the hellish carnival of , a purgatory for repressed ideas, rejected cartoons, and guilty pleasures.
In Dark Town, Stu discovers that Monkeybone (voiced and motion-captured by John Turturro) has a will of his own and is jealous of Stu’s desire to leave. With the help of a deceased cat named Kitty (Whoopi Goldberg) and a morbidly sweet girl named Julie (Rose McGowan), Stu tries to find an exit. However, Monkeybone escapes Dark Town by possessing Stu’s comatose body in the real world, causing chaos in Stu’s life, seducing his girlfriend Julie (Bridget Fonda, playing the live-action version), and ruining his career. Stu must find a way to return to his body, defeat his monstrous creation, and wake up.