The Monkey

'The Monkey' has a great concept and I enjoyed the wacky nature of it, I did almost lose interest in the human characters towards the end though. That isn't the best sign given the short 90 minute run time, but the end does come when desired so that saves it.

Theo James is pretty good in this, for sure the most I've liked seeing him. I haven't seen him act much (five films now), my main thought of him is actually with human excrement up his nose (yep) in 'The Inbetweeners Movie'... hopefully this performance will override that memory (it won't).

The gore shown for all the titular character's escapades is very cool and rather creative to be honest, the 'freak accident' angle is a fun one to watch play out onscreen. Everything with the ...

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"The Monkey teeters between ingenuity and frustration. Osgood Perkins crafts moments of inspiration and gets the best out of a solid cast, but the lack of a cohesive identity prevents its erratic blend of tones and genres from reaching its true potential.

For some, this chaotic, blood-soaked mix of horror, satire, family drama, and comedy will feel refreshing and daring; for others, it will be simply exasperating and disorienting.

Personally, it didn't work... at all."

Rating: C-

This takes for ever to get going and once it does, its really an unoriginal semi-comedic horror drama centred around yet another not-so-menacing puppet. This time, its squabbling brothers Hal and Bill who discover an old hat box after their father dies and in it is what looks like a toy monkey. They wind it up and next thing, their babysitter is no more and thats the just the start of its malevolence. Putting two and two together, they decide its best to drop the thing down a well and get on with growing up. Scoot on years later and now Hal (Theo James) has a son of his own Petey (Colin OBrien) and is trying to rebuild some bridges with him after his marriage collapsed. Equally estranged is his twin, so hes not impressed when, out of the bl...