Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Chris Kattan, Giancarlo Esposito, Rose McGowan. Clearly, some bonehead has monkeyed with Monkeybone. I don't know who's to blame, but whoever it is had better watch his back. Brendan Fraser, I should note, is off the hook. There's a diabolical plot involving toxic nightmare gas placed in Monkeybone toys that Hamm seems to have swiped wholesale from his own Batman script, but even that thread goes not much of anywhere.
Possible culprits abound.
Large chunks of the movie seem to have been excised with a rusty pickax, possibly by timid studio execs. In the end, though, it doesn't really matter whose fault it is. You still wind up thinking coulda woulda shoulda. All Rights Reserved. Time Out New York.