Monkeybone stars Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda, two very likeable and talented actors, and features impressive sets and costumes. His wildly successful comic strip, Monkeybone , has just been optioned for television, and merchandisers are beating a path to his door. Sadly, thanks to a freak accident, Stu is rendered comatose before he can propose. Thanks to some chicanery by Hypnos, the God of Sleep, Monkeybone gets sent back to inhabit Stu's body. Stu then has to scramble to stop Monkeybone before he ruins Stu's life.
Hilarity presumably ensues.
Yeah, the pace is frenetic, but it's filled with predictable shenanigans that you could see coming a mile away. This wouldn't matter so much if it were funny. Which it isn't. Good God, you'd think nobody had ever done them before. And the characters tend to be just cardboard cutouts, which really saddened me, because the characters in Selick's previous films were vivid and sharply drawn.